734 PROGRESS OF ASTRONOMY FOR 1891 AND 1892. 



Si)oorer liave been engaged in photograpliic aud visual ob.sei-vatioiis of 

 the suu. 



Prague : Safari]^. — Variable stars. 



Prague (University): WeineJi. — Drawings of the uioou. Determina- 

 tion of latitude, observations of Jupiter's satellites, time service, mag- 

 netic and meteorological observations. 



Providence (R. I.). — See Ladd. 



Radcliffe (Oxford) : Stone. — Work on the general catalogue of 

 6,350 stars for 1890; meridian observations of the sun and moon. Ob- 

 servations of comets, double stars, and occultations. Meteorology. 



Rome. — The first fascicule of the publications of the new Vatican 

 observatory contains the interesting Papal Brief founding the observa- 

 tory, an historical introduction, and two papers on astronomical i)hoto- 

 graphy, to which the observatory is to be for the present devoted. 



RousDON (Lyme Regis) : Peel\ — Variable stars; time service. 



San Diego (Cal.) — Mrs. Proctor, widow of the late R. A. Proctor, 

 proposes to erect an observatory at San Diego as a memorial to her 

 husband; an 18-inch object glass has been ordered. 



San Fernando: Viniegra. — Capt. J. Viniegra has been appointed 

 director, to succeed Capt. Pujazon. 



Smith (Beloit, Wis.): Bacon. — Sun-spot observations, etc. 



Stonyiturst: Sidfireaves. — Photography of the solar spectrnm and 

 of stellar spectra; drawings of sun spots aud measures of the chromo- 

 s I here and prominences. A new 15-inch refractor has been purchased 

 with the fund raised to the memory of the late Father Perry. 



Strasrurg: Becl-er. — Tlie meridian circle has been used in observ- 

 ing the zone —2° to —0°, and also the sun, moon, and planets. Some 

 defects in the construction of the altazimuth were remedied and the 

 instrument was used in a careful series of observations for the determ- 

 ination of the variation of latitude, beginning in May, 1891, and ending 

 in March, 1892. 



Sydney. — Transit-circle Avork, observations of double stars and of 

 comets; photographic work for the international chart, photographs 

 of comets and of Mars. Weather-chart service. 



Temrle (Rugby) : Double stars; uebuhe photography. 



Toulouse: Bigourdau. — From an account of the history of the ob- 

 servatory by M. Bigourdau it appears that it was <niginally estab 

 lished in 1729 on one of the towers of the rampart of the town. Gari- 

 puy nuide some observations there, but afterwards erected an observa- 

 tory on his own house and suj^erseded it by a larger and more commo- 

 dious one in 1770. Darquier assisted him for a time, but afterwards 

 erected an observatory of his own. Vidal had commenced his astro- 

 nomical work at the observatory of Garipuy, which, however, became 

 the property of the states of Languedoc after the death of the founder 

 in L782. Vidal retired in 1807, and, after several attempts to improve 

 the observatorv, it was decide<l in 1840 to erect a new one at the ex- 



