74 TERKESTPJAL MAGNETISM. 



58 52' in the northern part of the Oural Mountains at 

 Werchoturie. (Asie centrale, T. iii. p. 440478.) 



1829. The Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Peters- 

 burg consented to my proposition for the establishment of 

 magnetical and meteorological stations in the most varied 

 climatic zones of the Eussian dominions in Europe and 

 Asia, and for the erection of a physical central observatory 

 in the capital of that empire, under the active and able 

 direction of Professor Kupffer. (Compare Kosmos, Bd. i. 

 S. 436439, Anm. 36; Engl. p. 419421, Note 166; 

 Kupffer, Rapport adresse a FAcad. de St.-Petersbourg relatif 

 & I'Observatoire physique central fonde aupres du Corps 

 des Mines, in Schum. Astr. Nachr. No. 726 ; and in the 

 Annales magnetiques, p. xi.) By the unfailing support 

 given by Count Cancrine, the Minister of Finance, to e^ery 

 great scientific undertaking, it was found possible to com- 

 mence a portion of the corresponding observations ( 72 ) 

 from the Crimea to the White Sea, and from the Gulf of 

 Finland to the shores of the Pacific in Eussian America, as 

 early as 1832. A permanent magnetic station was esta- 

 blished in Pekin in the old convent which had been periodi- 

 cally inhabited by monks of the Greek Church since the 

 time of Peter the Great. A highly informed and scientific 

 observer, the astronomer Fuss, who had taken the chief part 

 in the measurements for determining the difference of level 

 between the Caspian and the Black Sea, was selected to make 

 the first magnetic arrangements in China. Subsequently, 

 Kupffer visited the magnetical and meteorological stations 

 as far eastward as Nertschinsk in long. 117 16' east from 

 Paris, in order to compare the instruments established at 



