512 The King of Oude's Observatory at Luc/mow. [June, 



department have been fairly cleared off, which in a few months more I 

 hope to see effected, the aid of the assistants in the Astronomical 

 Department will not be required to any extent, and as we have now an 

 efficient establishment in both Departments, which was far from being 

 the case when the onerous duties of the Magnetic Observatory were 

 undertaken, I hope to report a rapid recovery of the arrear of our 

 Astronomical reductions. 



I have before reported that translations of Dr. Brinkley's Astronomy 

 and of Vince's smaller work on the same subject made under my super- 

 intendence, were being printed at his Majesty's Lithographic press. 

 Some little progress has been made with them during the past year ; 

 but there is so much employment of various kinds for the press that I 

 fear it will be long before they are completed. A translation of Simm's 

 Mathematical Instruments is being copied for the Delhi Translation 

 Committee. The article on Magnetism from the Library of Useful Know- 

 ledge is also ready ; and the King has ordered it to be printed. But 

 seeing how long the works on Astronomy have occupied and are likely 

 to occupy, I have not much hope of seeing a third treatise printed 

 here. 



I have, &c. 



(Signed) R. Wilcox, Major. 

 Royal Observatory, Luc know, "1 



the 25th February, 1845. J 



To T. R. Davidson Esq. Resident at Lucknow. 



Bated Lucknow the 9th July 1846. 



Sir, — For the information of the Right Hon'ble the Governor Gene- 

 ral, I have the honor to present a report on His Majesty's Observatory. 



As it might be interesting to His Lordship to have some account of 

 the equipment of the Observatory, it may be proper to mention that 

 our Transit Instrument and Mural Circle are upon the same scale as 

 those at Greenwich, on the model of which they were indeed constructed 

 by the same maker. 



The Equatorial is likewise a fine instrument, having a telescope of 9 

 feet focal length, but its efficiency is a good deal impaired by its being 



