Excerpt from RemarksCincinnati, a gentleman who needs no-encomium here. The erection of the building in conformity with these plans was intrusted to the supervision. Of Prof. George R. Perkins, then a resident of Albany, who gave to it his unremitting attention. The-building is in the_form of a cross, of 84 feet front by 72 in depth, - a tower with revolving cupola rising from the centre, for the reception of the heliometer, or an equatorial telescope, should one hereafter be obtained. The central portion is 28 -feet square, the _east and west rooms, which are for the meridian instruments, are each about 23 feet square, but large semi cylindrical projections of 6 feet radius are now building, both north and south, for the reception and protection of collimator piers. The north wing, which is about 40 feet square, contains a room for the library, together with four small rooms, two of which were intended for the use of computers. The cylindrical tower is 22 feet in diameter, revolving upon iron balls.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.