REPORT OF THE KEW COMMITTi E. 



Ixi 



A< ti della Reale Accaclemia delle Scienze di Napoli 7 vols. 



JJuUetino Meteorologico dell' Osservatorio del CoUegio 



Romano 9 „ 



Giornale dell' I. R. Istitiito Lombardo 44 „ 



Rendiconti del Reale Istituto Lombardo 112 „ 



Sundries. (Italian Pamphlets.) 



APPENDIX III. 



luventory of Apparatus and Instruments at present in the Kew 

 Observatoiy, with the names of Owners O]- Funds by which 

 they were purchased. May 1871. 



[Abbreviations adopted in col. 2 : — Brit. Assoc, for British Assciciation ; Don. Fund for 

 Donation Fund ; Gov. Grant for Government Grant Fund ; Met. Com. for Meteoro- 

 logical Committee ; Par. Ex. Fund for Paris Exhibition Fund ; Eoy. Ast. Soc. for 

 Boyal Astronomical Society ; Eoyal Soc. for Eoyal Society.] 



Entrance Hall. Property of, or 



Purchased by, 



Bird's Mercurial Thermometer Royal Soc. 



Captain Kater's Hygrometer, by Robinson „ 



Dr. Lind's Portable Wind Gauge „ 



Huygens's Aerial Telescope (twelve parts) „ 



Huygens's Object-glass „ 



Huygens's Object-glass, with two Eye-glasses by] 



Scarlet J " 



Plamsteed's Object-glass (Venetian) „ 



Dollond's 42-inch Transit, with a cast-iron stand . . „ 



Short's 36-inch Reflecting Telescope, with an Object- 1 



glass Micrometer by DoUond (nine parts) j" " 



Kater's Convertible Pendulum, with the Agate Planes „ 



Captain Sabine's Cylindrical Pendulum, vibrating on ] 



Planes ; with the Knife-edges J" " 



Apparatus, with Leaden Balls, by Paull of Geneva] 



(ten parts) J" " 



Nairne and Bluut's 12-inch Dipping N^eedle (two 1 



parts) J " 



A 12-inch Yariation Needle ,, 



Dr. Godwin Knight's Battery of Magnets ,, 



Air-Pump, with Double Barrel ,, 



Nairne's Air Condenser (three parts) „ 



Ramsden's Great Theodolite, with other Instruments ' 



and Apparatus employed by Major-General Roy in 



the Trigonometrical Survey (sixty-six parts, in four 



cases), incomplete 



