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raised to a considerable height above the ground upon too slender a 

 pier. The clocks are by Molyneux, one of the best of the present 

 makers. The whole of these are in as fine order as when they were 

 first placed upon their piers, with the exception of the Transit, the 

 Micrometer of which being peculiarly exposed to injury, has suffered 

 from an accidental blow during the past year, but fortunately the injury 

 is of little detriment to the use of the instrument. 



In the Magnetical department our instruments are similar to those 

 with which the Observatories established by the British Government 

 and by the Court of Directors were equipped, and our Meteorological 

 instruments are also similar. 



It is my endeavour to employ the Meridian instruments, firstly, on all 

 those objects which cannot be so well observed in Europe, the larger 

 planets therefore have hitherto been always observed when they have 

 passed the Meridian between the hours of 5 in the morning and 1 1 at 

 night, and will for the future be also observed at all hours whenever 

 they are south of the equator ; great care is taken in observing the 

 moon and moon culminating stars, and the smaller planets, which are 

 not well seen in Europe, are observed at all hours ; we are also deter- 

 mining the places of a large number of the smaller stars by at least 10 

 observations on each. The methods of ascertaining the amount of the 

 various corrections to be employed are nearly the same with those adop- 

 ted at Greenwich. 



In the magnetical and meteorological department since the com- 

 mencement of 1845, in lieu of two hourly observations, we have taken 

 them at each hour of the day and night of Gottingen time. 



The observations of this class, in the form of abstracts showing the 

 hourly and daily mean readings for each instrument, have hitherto been 

 forwarded to the Royal Society, with the expectation that they would be 

 mblished in their transactions, either in the extended form in which 

 they are forwarded, or after discussion by a Committee of that Society ; 

 but the Board of Ordnance having ordered the observations taken by 

 the officers employed under their direction to be printed at the expense 

 of Government, and the Court of Directors having likewise undertaken 

 to print those made at their own observatories, it may become necessary 

 to ask the King of Oude to incur the expense of completing by publica- 

 ;ion the work which he has so liberally commenced. 



