OBSERVATORY. 
fex, difcovered fix comets; and the other is his Aiea 
a by which he difcovered the Georgian planet 
Bath, in 1781. 
This telicope aa in confequence of the difcovery, been 
made a conftellation in the heavens with the univerfal ap- 
iS aap bet n 
*s at- 
happily noticed by a {cientific einen the ear. Roffe, 
who lately paid a vifit to Dr. erfchel, and on ee the 
dogtor’s name thus written among the ftars, applied the 
following lines from Prior, and immediately added the con- 
cluding couplet, which is well worthy of — preferved. 
«¢ Thus the diftinguifhed part of m 
With compafs, pencil, {word, or ® en 
Should in life’s vifit write oe nam 
In characters that may proclai 
ntry’s praife. 
But Herfchel’s Fame il higher rife, 
His name is written in the flee 
Dr. Herfchel, though in his 75th year, is ftill an ative 
and indefatigable obferver. was born at’ Hanover, 
Nov. 15, 17 38: a period which will be ever memorable in the 
hiftory of aftronomy. 
The King’s gr Obfervatory in Richmond gardens is 
extremely beautiful in itructure Nu 
as in fituation. 
a mural arc, with feveral ee telefcopes, 
efpeciaily a ten-feet refleCtor of Dr. Herfch ere 18 
a fuperb equatorial on the top of the sulin which is 
a moveable roof. There are allio two fine 
e 
riofities. It was built under the dire€tion o r. ain- 
bray, and has been, for fome years, in he care of Mr. 
i 
Oxford Obfervatory is a moft magnificent ftru€iure, and 
afo 
the damage perfe&tly correfpond with the building. It 
: : 
been of ire added 
to the cfablitrnent, fo that the obfervations will not, in 
future, be liable to the like interruptions. 
AMBRIDGE there have been {mall obfervatories at 
hn’s, &c. * a plan is faid to 
reat fcale, and 
worthy the {cientific fame of that tearaed euvedity, 
Port{mouth passes —At the Royal Marine academy, 
ire’ 
t{mouth, there 
ley, who had been previo an h 
Royal Obfervatory, and tikewile with Capt. Cook in his 
latter voyages 
At Chri ifs Hofpital, Mr. Wales (who had alfe ferved 
under Dr. ae reeal = Capt. Cook) erected a {mall ob- 
fervatory at his expenfe, when he became matter of 
the royal fiahemantal fchool theres and lately the go- 
vernors, at the recommendation o re Evans, the pre- 
si nt matter, have ordered that the obfervatory fhall be 
nts. 
Houfe a fmall 
obiervatory, which is generally fuperintended by the 
fecretary for the time bein 
At Highbury Houfe an obfervatory was built in the year 
1787, by Alexander Aubert, efq., which for perfection of plan 
fcale, and have been difcuntinued after the demife ot the 
owners. ‘Thus in private obfervatories, though the aftrono- 
mer 
only in public eftablifhments that permanence can be ex- 
Among the private obfervatories of ey prefent day, the 
following eevee lift m ay be alfo mentioned. 
Blackheath tephen Geena: efq. 
Blenheim - Duke ns oe ough. 
Cambridge - ev 
Chiflehurft - 
vy. Francis ‘Wollafton. 
erby - William Strutt, efq. 
Eaft Sheen Rev. is . iam Pearton. 
sath Square Dr. 
Godwo The duke of Richmond 
Cee Dr. William rial ney. 
Taanig | Wick Colonel Beauf 
Ha William Walker, efq 
Highbuey Terrace Capt 
Tene William Hotgfon, efq. 
Iflin avin a 
Paragon, Southwark ae Strode Butt, efq. 
ne aa 7 Englefi bart. 
aa il Suffex John F 
Sherbur Ea ler Macaca 
St. ie Pitcher Mr. oh ef ax 
hee - 
“iffe rene univerfities of Scot- 
n eftablifhed, but ° 
Scotch Obfervatories. —In ae 
land prokelto rfhips of altronomy have bee 
vatories ; and at Glafgow there is alfo a {mall one belonging 
to the college, but of late a magnificent one has been erected 
by a fociety of gentlemen, which is likely, when finihed, 
to be very ufeful as well as honourable to that commercial 
city, ’ 
Lrifh 
