466 ASTEONOMICA . OBSERVATOIUES. 



PuY-LE Dome, France. 



Observatoirc. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 11'" oS^ E. 

 Latitude, 45° 4G' 28" N. 



Director , . 



Quebec, Canada. 



Ohserraior)/. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 4*» 44'" 49.3*^ W. 

 Latitude, 40° 48' 17.3" N. 

 Director: E. D. Ashe, 18G3. 

 C. W. Drury. 

 Prior to 1883 the instruments were at the residence of Capt. AsHEj 

 they were then removed to the observatoiy at the citadel. 



Quito, Ecuador. 



Ohservatorio del Colegio Nacional. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 5'' 15"^' 20* W. 

 Latitude, Qo 14' 0" S. 

 Director: J. B. Menten, 1S74. 



' Kathowen, Ireland. 



Obseratory of W. E. Wilson. 



Longitude from Greenwich, . 



Latitude, — — — . 

 Director : W. E. Wilson. 



EiCHMOND (Surrey), England. 



Kew Obnervatorij of the Royal Society. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 1"^ 15.1^ W. 



Latitude, 51o 28' G" N. 



Directors : Sir Francis Eonalds, 1842. 



I. Welsh, 1852. 



Balfour Stewart, 1859. 



S. Jefferys, 1871. 



G. M. Whipple, 187G. 

 Erected in 17G8 as the private observatory of George III ; in 1841 it 

 was disnumtled and transferred to the British Association for use as a 

 physical observatory ; in 1871, having been endowed by J. P. Gassiolt, 

 esq., it was placed under the control of a committee of the Royal 

 Society. 



