ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES. 40S 



BogotX, United States of Colombia. 



I. Ohscrvatorio Astronomico Nacional. 



Longitude from Greeinvicli, 4'' 5G'" 59^ W. 



Latitude, 4° 35' 48" :N^. 



Directors: Francisco Jose de Caldos, 1805-1810. 



Benedicto Dominguez, 1837. 



Indalecio Lievano, 1862. 



Jose M. Gonzales Benito, 18G7, 

 The observatory was built in 1803 under tlie auspices of the Viceroy 

 Don Pedro Mendimeta and the botanist Mutiz, according to the 

 l^lans of Domingo Petres. From 1810 to 1837 it was abandoned. It 

 w^as finally reorganized in 1881, by order of the President of the Re- 

 public, Rafael Nttnez, by Jose M. Gonzales Bekito, its present 

 director. 



IF. Obserratoire Flammarion. 



Founded in 1881 by Jose M. Gonzales Benito, director of the 

 National Observatory of Bogota, in honor of Camille Flammarion. 

 It is built in the private dwelling of M. Gonzales. 



Bologne, Italy. 



Ohservatorio Astronomico. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 45"' 24.9* E. 

 Latitude, 44° 29' 47" N. 

 Director : A. Saporetti. 



Bombay, India. 

 Oovernment Observatory at Cohiha. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 4^^ 51" 12.09'^ E. 

 Latitude, 18° 53' 45" N. 

 Director: Charles Chambers. 



The principal work of the Colaba observatory is in the fields of ter- 

 restrial magnetism and meteorology, and astronomical observations are 

 made only for the practical purpose of time-keeping, partly for the pub- 

 lic service and partly for the use of the observatory. 



Bonn, Prussia. 



I. Universitdts Stermvarte. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 2S«» 23.29« E. 



Latitude, 50° 43' 45" N. 



Authority for longitude and latitude : [Le Clerk and Benardi^res] 



Connaissance des Temps, 1884, \). xxvi. 

 Directors : K. D. von Munchow, 1818. 



F. W. A. Argelander, 1837. 

 E. SchOnfeld, 1875. 

 Founded in 1818, near the university. The erection of a more com- 



