2*76 SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



tions, and of which all the elementary parts have been verified 

 by new obfervations. A fet of tables of the moon's motion 

 are alfo to be printed, and when they are completed, thofe ot" 

 the planets will follow. 



Bequeji of Erneji the Second relative to his Obfervatory. 

 ErnefttheSe- Ernefl the Second, late Duke of Saxe-Gotha, was remark- 

 tohts^obfer"va- ^^^^ attached to agronomical ftudies. He made obfervations 

 tory. and calculations himfeif, affifted in compofing books on the 



fubjed, and furnifbed the funds for their publication. He en- 

 abled M. Zach to meafure a degree of the meridian in Ger* 

 many, and defrayed the expences from his private purfej fo 

 that he united to the merit of a connoifleur in the fcience, 

 that of an author, a patron, a man of fcience, and of a gene- 

 rous prince. 



He left in his will a fum equal to about 1 330/. to form a fund 

 for the maintenance of the obfervatory of Seeberg, near Go- 

 tha, which was built out of his own private eftate ; and or- 

 dered his fucceifor to ered no other monument to his fame, 

 but the careful fupport of this eftablithment. 

 . Baron de Zach,, who has given a copy of the will in his 

 Journal, adds, '• That he can aflure the lovers of fcience, 

 that the will of the father will not only be fulfilled, but fur- 

 palfed by his fucceifor, the prefent Duke Emilius Leopold 

 Augufius, who has already ftiewn the moft marked proofs of 

 his attachment to the fciences. 



" In a codicil to the will the Duke repeated, ' I forbid ex- 

 y '. prefsly the elevation of any monument to my memory, or 

 « even an epitaph, or any monument at or near my tomb.'* 



