—M. Gonzalez, the Director of the National Observatory of
Columbia, is about to establish a private observatory for astronomical physics
at Bogota at an altitude of 10,000 feet,
and nearly on the equator a most favourable situation for the application of
the spectroscope to the sun and planets, as they may there be observed in the
zenith, while the observatory will be removed above the grosser portion of the
atmosphere.
