Abstract

THIS observatory built at the expense of M. R. Bischoffsheim, the member of the French Lower House for Nice, is situated on Mont Gros, at an altitude of about 370 metres, and at a distance of eight English miles on the old Route de la Corniche, so well known and appreciated by the tourists travelling by road from Nice to Genoa. M. Celora, Milan astronomer. Commander Bahat of the French Staff, and M. Perrotin, the present director of the Bischoffsheim Observatory, have ascertained electrically and astronomically, the longitude and latitude of the new establishment which has been connected with Paris and Milan, by unquestionable observations.

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