The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . nally arrangedfor apartments to receive a transit-instrument, a mural quadrant, and anequatorial instrument. On entering the building by the flight of steps onthe north side the visitor finds
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . nally arrangedfor apartments to receive a transit-instrument, a mural quadrant, and anequatorial instrument. On entering the building by the flight of steps onthe north side the visitor finds himself in a fine hall, exactly correspondingwith an apartment immediately in front of it on the south side. The apart-ments to the right and left on the south side of the building contain thetransit-instrument and the great mural quadrant. The room above the southcentral room is appropriated as a kind of study and laboratory; and thisroom, and the rooms below it, are lined with glass cases, containing philoso-phical instruments and objects of natural history. The rooms in the samestory are used as dwelling apartments for the observer and keeper of thebuilding and their families, and one or two other rooms are occupied as sleep-ing apartments. In the year 1842, on a representation made by the British Association toher Majestys Commissioners of Woods and Forests, the building was appro- ms KEW OBSERVATORY. priated to their use, and the laborious charge of arranging for the necessaryinstruments, and of superintending the observations, was generously undertakenby Francis Ronalds, Esq., a gentleman well known for his previous researchesin electricity and meteorology generally. From that time to the present hehas devoted himself almost exclusively to this task; and the science of atmo-spheric electricity, not to speak of other branches of meteorology, is mainlyindebted to him for its present state of advancement. Mr. Ronalds researches were at first chiefly directed to the
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