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Account of the Trevandrum Observatory, 



[July 



On the north and south faces, and let into a panel, formed in the 

 parapet wall, are to be placed marble tablets, bearing an inscription, 

 as follows : — 



THE TREVANDRUM OBSERVATORY, 



FOUNDED BY 



HIS HIGHNESS 

 Sree Padmanabha Dassa Vunchee 

 Baula Rama Vurma Koola Shakhur 

 Kireeta Pukee Swatee Rama Rajah Bahadoor 

 Munnei Sooltan Shemshair Jung, 



A. D. 1837. 



Soobrow Dewan. 



Colonel James Stuart Fraser— Resident. 



John Caldecott, Esq. — Astronomer. 



W. H. Horsley, Esq. Madras Eng. — Architect. 



The inscription on the north face being in English, and that on the 

 south a translation of the same in Malayalim. 



This building was commenced last October, and is now finished, with 

 exception of a little work connected with the granite pillar in the 

 centre room. 



2.— The Instruments. 



Will comprise — 1st. A transit of five feet focal length, and of four 

 inches aperture — ordered from Mr. Dollond, with very particular in- 

 structions, that it shall be the most perfect in his power to make. This 

 will be placed in the western meridian room. 



2d. A transit clock to be so placed, in a recess cut into the granite 

 pillar in the centre room, as to be easily seen and heard by the observer 

 at the transit instrument, when the door between the rooms is open. 

 This is intended to be as perfect a piece of workmanship as London 

 can furnish. 



3d and 4th. Two mural circles of five feet diameter, to be both 

 placed in the eastern meridian room, on the opposite faces of a solid 

 granite wall — one instrument being intended for direct observations of 

 polar or zenith distances, while the other makes simultaneous observa- 



