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his successors’, in the same manner as those of European ob¬ 
servers. 
One addition to our astronomical establishments, the gift of 
an individual, is yet to be mentioned. In 1822 Sir Thomas 
Macdougall Brisbane, soon after his appointment as governor 
of ISew South Wales, founded an Observatory at Paramatta, 
and furnished it with excellent instruments. By his personal 
attention, and by the activity of the assistants whom he pro¬ 
cured, a series of valuable observations has been produced. 
On his leaving the station, he presented the instruments, &c. 
to the British Government, on condition that the Observatory 
should be maintained in an efficient state. The condition Avas 
accepted, and an observer (Mr. Dunlop) is now maintained by 
the British Government at this distant station. Among all the 
instances that we have mentioned, there is not one which reflects 
higher lustre upon the motives \A 7 hich caused its establishment. 
Observatories have also been founded by the East India 
Company at Madras, Bombay, and St. Helena. The obser¬ 
vations made at the first of these places have been published 
by the Company. 
I regret that I cannot attempt to give any accurate history 
of the increased number and the improvements of Continental 
Observatories during this period. Several new ones have been 
erected ; several have been much improved both in the cha¬ 
racter of their buildings (the situation being in some instances 
changed from an upper story to the ground floor,) and in the 
nature of the instruments, especially by the general introduc¬ 
tion of circular instruments. 
At none of these (excepting Konigsberg and Vienna, and 
perhaps one or two more,) is the system of observation so regu¬ 
lar as at Greenwich. 
The following list includes all the public Obseiwatories with 
which I am acquainted:—Greenwich, Oxford,Cambridge, Edin¬ 
burgh, Dublin, Armagh, Cape of Good Hope, Paramatta, 
Madras, Bombay, St. Helena, Paris, Marseille, Geneva, Turin, 
Milan, Padua, Bologna, Modena, Naples, Palermo, Abo, 
Altona, Bremen, Christiana, Dorpat, Copenhagen, Konigsberg, 
Berlin, Gotha, Mannheim, Speyer, Munich, Gottingen, Vienna, 
Cracow, Warsaw, Wilna, Ofen, Kremsmunster. The Observa¬ 
tories of Brussels and Cadiz, and perhaps some in the above list, 
are not yet in full activity. I am not aware that there is any 
public Observatory in America, though there are some able 
observers. 
In 1820 the Astronomical Society of London (now the Royal 
Astronomical Society,) was founded : and this event, Avhether 
