478 ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES, 



(c) Equatorial instrument: Maker, Ramsden, iu 1777; aperture of 

 objective, 4 inches ; maguifying powers of eye-pieces, 40 and GO. 



{d) Spectroscope : Direct vision, maker, S. Meez, at Munich. 



(e) Photometer : Made by the late Prof. L. Schwerd, at Speyer. Of 

 the three made by him, one is in Bonn, and the other in Pulkowa. 



(/) Chronograph: Maker, Ansfeld, at Gotha. 



{g) Cloels : One, mean time, maker, Shelton (London) ; one side- 

 real, maker. Hardy (London 1819). 



(/<) Chronometer : One, meantime, maker, Dent, No. 2,790 5 one side- 

 real, maker, Dent, No. 2,000. 



(i) A heliostat, by S. Merz. Various ancient astronomical instru- 

 ments and modern meteorological instruments. The library of the ob- 

 servatory contains 1,9GG works, in 4,181 volumes. 



ViviERS, France. 



Oljscrvatoire. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 18'" 44^ E. 



Latitude, 44o 29' 14" N. 



Authority for longitude and latitude : Connaissance des Temi)s, 1884, 



p. xii. 

 Director : . 



Warsaw, Russia. 



Astronomichcskaia Observatoria. 



Longitude from Greenwich, P' 24'° 7.4'* E. 

 Latitude, 52° 13' 5.7" K 



Directors: Aeininski, 1820. 



J. D. Baranowski, 1848. 



J. WoSTOIvOFF, 1877. 



In 17G4 Rostan made observations at the castle. From 1765 to 1708 

 N. Wolf nuulc observations at the Blue Palace on the Mniszech. The 

 observatory was not established permanently until 1820, and the ex- 

 penses of construction were met by Straszyz, i)rcsident of the univer- 

 sity. It contains a hall for meridian instruments, and two towers with 

 cupolas. 



Wellington, New Zealand. 

 Gorernment OJjservatory. 



Longitude from Greenwich, ll^' 39"' ll" E. 



Latitude, 41° 17' 15" S. 



Authority for longitude and latitude: Connaissance des Temps, 1884, 



p. lii. 

 Director : . 



