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must not close this report without expressing my satisfaction with the 

 zeal and industry of my assistants who, with the exception of one, are 

 young Hindoos from the College of Agra and the Allahabad school. 



I have, &c, 

 (Signed) R. Wilcox, Lt.-Col. 



Director of the King's Observatory. 

 Royal Observatory, 



Lucknow, the 9fh July, 1846. 



From Lieutenant Colonel R. Wilcox, Superintendent of Observatory» 

 To Colonel A. F. Richmond, C. B. Resident at Lucknow, 

 Dated Lucknow, 24th March 1848. 



Sir, — I have the honor to submit to you, for the information of the 

 Right Honorable the Governor General of India, a report on his Ma- 

 jesty's Observatory, which is under my care. 



The Meridian Instruments, i. e. the Transit Telescope and Mural 

 Circle which are on the same scale and by the same makers as those of 

 Greenwich, remain in excellent order. The Equatorial is still in the 

 unsatisfactory state alluded to in former reports, and has in conse- 

 quence been little used as a measuring instrument, the want of stability 

 of the high pillar on which it is mounted is such, that it is difficult to 

 form any judgment whether the apparent defects of the instrument are 

 not mainly to be attributed to the defects of the pier alone. 



The Magnetical and Meteorological instruments for daily observation 

 are in perfect order. 



The meridian instruments have been employed, as in former years, 

 in determining the places of a great number of the smaller stars, by 

 at least 10 observations in right ascension and north polar distance 

 of each ; the Moon and Moon-culminating stars are observed as fre- 

 quently as possible, the larger Planets when they are south of the 

 Equator at all hours ; and whether north or south at all hours during 

 the day whenever they can be seen with sufficient distinctness, and 

 favored as we are by climate and position. I have remarked that we 

 have occasionally been successful in continuing our day light observa- 

 tions for two months longer than appears to have been practicable at 

 Greenwich, of the smaller Planets ; Ceres and Vesta, and sometimes 

 Pallas, have been observed whenever it has been practicable ; of these 



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