Description of [George] Bishop's Observatory, South Villa, Regent's Park, by [John Russell Hind] Description of the set-up of the observatory from which John Russell Hind worked between 1845 and 1854. Creation by astronomer George Bishop (1785-1861), the instruments (11 feet refractor telescope made by Dollond; micrometer; transit; altitude and azimuth instrument by Troughton; sidereal clock by Barraud; night-glass by Dollond; sidereal chronometer by Arnold; standard thermometer by Dollond); their set-up (concrete base, stone pillar); furniture (mahogany chair, for which the maker received Society of Arts medal); the astronomical focus (double stars; comet; corrections of Bessel & Lalande Hist. Celeste); meteorological observations (daily barometric and temperature; no magnetic observations). The attribution to John Russell Hind was made as a pencil note at the end of the paper. 1840s