ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES. 457 



Padova, Italy. 



Osscrvatorio Astronomico delV Universitd. 



Lougitiide from Greenwich, 47'" 29.13^ E, 

 Latitude, 45° 24' 2.5" JS". 

 Directors: G. To Ai.'DO,n(il. 



V. CniMiNELLO, 1797. 



G. Santini, 1813. 



G. LOEENZONI, 1877. 

 Founded in 17G1 by the Venetian senate, and accommodated in a 

 massive tower built in the thirteenth century by the tyrant Ezzeliuo 

 for a state prisou. 



Padua, Italy. {See Padova.) 



Paisley, Scotland. 

 Observatory of T. Coats. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 17'" 43.3^ W. 



Latitude, 55° 50' 43.8" N. 



Authority for lougitude and hititude: A. Lancaster, Liste Generale 



des Observatoires et Astronomes, 1887. 

 Observer, D. Maclean. 



Palermo, Italy. 

 E. Osservatorio. 



Longitude from Greenwicli, 53'" 25" E. 



Latitude, 38° 0' 44" N. 



Authority for longitude and latitude: PiAZZi Daussy, 1835, p. 21. In 



Connaissance des Temps, 1884, p. xxxiv. 

 Directors : G. PiAzzi, 1787. 



]Sr. Cacciatore, 1817. 



G. Cacciatore, 1842. 



D. Ragona, 1858. 



G. Cacciatore, ISGO, 

 Proposed in 178G. Established in the Saint Ninfa tower of the 

 Koyal Palace, the ancient residence of the Emirs during the Arabian 

 dominion. The first complete vertical circle made by Ramsden, and 

 finished in 1789, was mounted in this observator3^ Piazzt used it from 

 1792 to 1813 for the observations which served him as a basis for his 

 fiimous catalogue. Ceres was discovered at Palermo on the first day 

 of the nineteeth century. 



Paramatta, New South Wales, Australia. 



Private Observatory. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 10'' 4'" 0.2^ E. 

 Latitude, 33° 48' 49.8" W. 



Established by Brisbane. Its instruments went to the Government 

 Observatory at Sydney, New South Wales. 



