232 REPORTS FROM THE SECTIONS. 
our worthy Chairman io testify _ much of the recent advance 
in astronomy is due our American cousins. We have in 
Sydney, Malbotvies ‘a Adelaidé, observatories provided with 
instruments, thanks to the openhanded liberality of our 
colonial Governments, to whom all honour is due for their support 
of science in these young countries, but ought no effort be made to 
procure a thirty or forty inch telescope for this colony? Have we 
no wealthy citizens desirous of emulating the example furnished 
their confréres in the States and establish an observatory with a 
giant telescope? And, again, when small cities in the States, such 
as they were thirty or forty years ago, determined to have their 
own observatories, with as large tele: as were then procurable, 
why cannot we do the same here? Let our Section originate, and 
our Society sanction, an _ to the pir for “ funds to pro- 
cure one of the powerful instruments now in vogue. I merely 
broach the idea (probably premature) for the citucbeauie of the 
Astronomical Section of the Royal Society. 
Another thing may be er when the demand for large 
telescopes commenced in a, Alvan Clark and Sons, Fitz- 
vers. Who knows a rain that should a local demand arise, 
same results will follow, and some Australian Alvan Clark, or 4 
Cooke, or a Grubb, emerge from his obscurity and find a fitting 
field for his talents. 
List OF THE MORE IMPORTANT OBSERVATORIES IN THE UNITED STATES. 
Government. University and College 
Equatorial. 
U. S. Naval Observatory ... 26-inch. "Equatorial 
Westpoint do. ei ... 92,, | Williams College... 7-ine 
lis do. 72,, | Western Reserve 9 
Philadelphia High School 6 » 
Private Observatories. Georgetown College 6» 
Sere = Harvard do. 15 ” 
ee es ... 12 ,, | Tuscaloosa University. 8 » 
Dudley ... ... ~~... 18 5, | Amhurst College. ae, 
pig eric i: »» | Shelly do.. as Tbe 
» Rutherf Resita do. : 134 5» 
Dr. arog root i “isi. ” »» | Dartmouth do. 9%» 
Michigan do... we Se 
Projected Observatories. re are eae te i . ” 
‘ Hcl School, ” 
Mr. M’Cormick’s ... we ee University, 
1 Ae Lars fee - _ 29°8 » Chi eos eee wee 18} ” 
Alfred re a 
Pe 7 dee nC 123, Lehigh University ae as 
