Leverrier wrote to Doctor Galle, head of the observatory at Berlin, saying to him, clearly and decidedly, that the new planet was now in or close to such and such a position, and that if he would point his telescope to that part of the heavens he would see it; and moreover that he would be able to tell it from a star by its having a sensible magnitude, or disk, instead of being a mere point.

A marvellously perfect example of Martial art and science is furnished by the Observatory of the Astronomic Academy, on a mountain about twenty miles from the Residence.

When the news of the discovery of Neptune reached this country, I happened to be visiting at the observatory in Cambridge,

This source of disturbance extinguished in the reign of the twenty-fifth predecessor of my royal patron, the construction of the great Observatory on Eanelca was commenced.

She was very cordially received, and the astronomers not only opened their observatories to her, but welcomed her into their family life.

A little observatory for the use of the first was placed on the roof of the bank building, and two small buildings were erected in the yard for the transits.

" 1840 "In the latter part of 1839, and through 1840, I had much correspondence with the Admiralty, in which I obtained a complete account of the transfer of the Observatory from the Ordnance Department to the Admiralty, and the transfer of the Visitation of the Observatory from the Royal Society to the present Board of Visitors.

Towards the end of the year I observed Encke's Comet: and determined the latitude of the Observatory with Sheepshanks's repeating circle.

BelowAn American patrol arriving at the ruins of the house used as an observatory by the German Crown Prince during the famous battle of Verdun.

For conducting with efficiency and with credit to the nation the institution which is entrusted to me, I have judged it proper to cultivate intimate relations with the principal Observatories of Europe, and in particular with the great Observatory founded by the Emperor of Russia at Pulkowa near St Petersburg.

He has also a fine transit instrument, and the admiral, being his near neighbor, has the privilege of using the observatory as his own.

Mr Lubbock reported from the Committee of Physics of the Royal Society to the Council in favour of a Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory near London.

" 1850 "The Report to the Board of Visitors opens with the following paragraph: 'In recording the proceedings at the Royal Observatory during the last year, I have less of novelty to communicate to the Visitors than in the Reports of several years past.

As I was officially (as Lucasian Professor) an elector, I was present, and I explained to the electors that I could not undertake the responsibility of the Observatory without augmentation of income, and that I requested their express sanction to my application to the University for that purpose.

I then made a tour through north Italy, looking over the Observatories at Milan, Padua, Bologna, and Florence.

Secchi could hear the question; and no bolder views emanate from any observatory than those which Secchi sends out.

But he always began right away to talk of the comet; an' ten to one he didn't disappear into the observatory within the next five minutes.

The great round towers of Nuremberg are more properly, in fact, detached keeps than portions of a combined system, rather observatories than effective defenses.