ASTRONOMICAL 01>.SERVATORIES. 459 



Parma, Italy. 

 B. Osservatorio Astronomko. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 41'" 20« E. 

 Latitude, 440 48' 15" I^. 



Director : • 



Paksonstown, Ireland. (See Birr Castle.) 



Pekin, China. 

 Observatory. 



Longitude from Greenwicb, 7'' 45"> 37.02« K. 

 Latitude, 39° 54' 13" N. 



Authority for longitude and hititude: Annuaire r>ureau des Longitudes, 

 I\aris, 1884, p. 414. 



Pesaro, Italy. 



Ohscrratory. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 51'" 3S« E. 

 Latitude, 43^ 55' 27" N 

 Directors : LuiGl GuiDl. 



Pig Calvori, 1883. 



Prof. LuiGi GuiDi, who was the founder of this observatory, who 

 for many years very ably tilled the place of its director, and to a great 

 extent maintained it at his own expense, died on the Gtli March, 1883. 



The municipality of Pesaro, which already owned the property and 

 a considerable portion of the scientific apparatus, by an agreement 

 with Mr. Gerolamo Guidi, the son of the deceased Professor Guidi, 

 took possession of the observatory and temporarily appointed Sr. 



Calvori as director. 



I 

 Instruments. 



(rt) Astronomical division : 



(1) A small equatorial by Merz, with an opening of 12 centimeters, 

 very simply mounted, for cosmographic observations, with a Mcrz helio- 

 scope with three reflectors and a LIofmann spectroscope. 



(2) A perfectly good transit instrument in an adjoining room, with a 

 meridian opening, firmly imbedded in Istrian rock. 



(3) Two chronometers, one a marine chronometer (English), and the 

 other with a pendulum (IIiPP). 



{h) Meteorological division : 



(1) Barometers for direct observations. 



(2) A meteorological case with termographs, psychrometer, hygrom- 

 eter, evaporometer for direct observation. 



(3) Registering apparatus for various meteorological data, barometric 

 pressure, temperature, hygrometric state of the air, velocity and direc- 



