516 The King of Oude^s Observatory at Lucknow. [June, 



likewise we have been able to collect a larger number of observations 

 in one year than has been done in Europe. On account of their small 

 size we have not been very successful in seeing Pallas and Juno, the 

 latter indeed has seldom if ever been satisfactorily observed. 



The time has scarcely yet arrived when observations made at so 

 distant a spot could be turned to any account of those Planets which 

 have been recently discovered. We have not however failed to observe 

 Neptune from the month of November until it passed the meridian too 

 late to be visible. 



The hourly observations of the magnetical and meteorological instru- 

 ments I propose to continue until the close of 1848, and if on reference 

 to England it should appear desirable, they can at a trifling cost be 

 carried on beyond that time ; but as it is improbable that the King will 

 choose to incur the expense of printing them, and they have already 

 become very voluminous in manuscript, I doubt the advantage of it ; 

 while on the other hand, the time now bestowed on their reduction 

 could be employed in reducing our astronomical observations, the 

 computations of which, though more forward than at a similar period 

 last year, are still much in arrears ; complete abstracts of our magnetical 

 and meteorological registers will continue to be forwarded to the Royal 

 Society. 



With respect to the printing of our astronomical observations, in my 

 last report I mentioned, that the course which on account of there being 

 no printing press on the spot, appeared to me to be fraught with the 

 least difficulty, was to request the London Astronomical Society to print 

 our results, that is, results only, in their memoirs, which at the King's 

 expense, I have no doubt they would willingly consent to do, complete 

 copies of our crude observations being furnished to them to be placed 

 amongst their records for reference ; but I expressed a doubt whether 

 on the question being submitted to him, the King might not prefer to 

 expend a larger sum in order to have the volumes appear solely in his 

 own name. Mr. Davidson had the kindness to take much trouble in 

 ascertaining the King's wishes on the subject, and the result was as I 

 had anticipated, that he preferred the latter course, though possibly be- 

 cause the cost weighed heavily in the King's estimation, some months 

 elapsed before permission reached me officially to expend the sum of six 

 thousand rupees in printing the observations of 3 successive years. 



