ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES. 407 



Benares, India. 

 Ohservatori/. 



Loii-itiule from Greenwicb, 5" 22"' 31« E. 



Latitude, 250 18' 33" N. 



Autliority for lougitude and latitude: Oonnaissauce des lemps, lbb4, 



l>age xxxviii. 



Director: 



Bergen, Norway. 



Naral Observatory. 



Longitude from Green wicb, 21'" 138 E. 



Latitude, G(P 23' 54" N. ^. . , 



Authority for longitude and latitude: A. Lancaster, Liste Generale 



des Observatoires et Astronomes, 1887. 

 Directors : C. F. G. BoHR, 1818. 



J. J. ASTRAND, 1833. 



Founded in 1783. Has only been used to furnish standard time. 



Berlin, Prussia. 



Kdnigliehe Universitiits Stern mirte. 



Longitude from Greenwicb, 53>' 34-" 91« B. 



Latitude, 52° 30' 1G.7" X. 



Authority for longitude and latitude: [Loewy and Le Clerk] Con- 



naissance des Temps., 1884, p. xxvi. 

 Directors : G. Kirch, 1706. 



J, H. Hoffmann, 1710. 

 C. KiROn, 1717. 

 J. W. Wagner, 1740. ' 

 H. N. Grischow, 1745. 

 J. KiES, 1754. 

 F. U. S. Alpinus, 1755. 

 J. J. HUBER, 175G. 

 Jean Bernoulli, 17G7. 

 J. E. Bode, 178G. 

 J. F. Encke, 1825. 

 W. J. Foerster, 18G5. 

 Founded at the request of Leibnitz in 1705 ; completed in 1711. 

 Originally situated in the suburb Dorotbeenstadt, in the northern part 

 of the city. A great square tower of five stories, 4G feet in length and 

 88i feet in height. This observatory was re modelled in 1787 and again 

 in 1800. In 1833 a new observatory was built at the southern extremity 

 of the Charlotteu strasse. It was here that Galle discovered Neptune 



