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in 1829. Besides these, a number of useful obser- 

 vations have been published in journals and occa- 

 sional forms ; as, for instance, those of Zach, made 

 at Seeberg, near Gotha, since 1788; and others 

 have been employed in forming catalogues, of which 

 we shall speak shortly (x). 



Nor has the establishment of observatories been 

 confined to Europe. In 1786, M. de Beauchamp, 

 at the expense of Louis the Sixteenth, erected an 

 observatory at Bagdad, " built to restore the Chal- 

 dean and Arabian observations," as the inscription 

 stated ; but, probably, the restoration once effected, 

 the main intention had been fulfilled, and little per- 

 severance, in observing was thought necessary. In 

 1828, the British government completed the build- 

 ing of an observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 which Lacaille had already made an astronomical 

 station by his observations there at an earlier 

 period, (1750); and an observatory formed in New 

 South Wales by Sir T. M. Brisbane in 1822, and 

 presented by him to the government, is also in 

 activity. The East India Company has founded 

 observatories at Madras, Bombay, and St. Helena ; 

 and observations made at the former of these places* 

 and at St. Helena, have been published. 



The bearing of the work done at such observa- 

 tories upon the past progress of astronomy, has 

 already been seen in the preceding narrative. Their 

 bearing upon the present condition of the science 

 will be the subject of a few remarks hereafter. 



