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meeting, and, without giving much detail, make it interesting, 

 while at the same time not losing sight of the immense amount 

 of ground he covered. When m}^ paper appears in print it will 

 be much easier to follow if a map of Victoria is at hand to 

 which reference can be made. 



Of course, many parts of the country he passed through, 

 then uninhabited or used only as squatters' runs, are now 

 occupied by thriving towns and smiling wheat-fields. To 

 properly judge of the courage and energy of this fine man, it 

 is necessarv to read the full text of his report. The work he 

 did has, I believe, stood the test of time, and he must rank as 

 one of those great scientific pioneers to whom Victorian 

 scientists are indebted for the solid foundations they laid so truly 

 in the fifties and early sixties. 



Addendum. — A paper, which I have been privileged to see, 

 entitled "Our Observatory: the Story of its Establishment," by 

 the Rev. C. Stuart Ross, M.A., which includes an interesting 

 account of Neumayer's life, both in Australia and Germany, is 

 now in the press, and will appear in the March number of the 

 Victorian Historical Magazine. It confirms my surmise that 

 Neumayer returned to Germany after a first visit to Australia. 

 Some account of the Geodetis survey of Victoria, mentioned in 

 the earlier part of this paper, taken from " Victoria and its 

 Metropolis," may be interesting. It was commenced in 1858, on 

 the advice of Mr. C. Ligar, the then Surveyor-Cieneral. A 

 meridian line, starting near the Port Melbourne station, was 

 run north through Flemington, Kilmore to near Wyuna on the 

 Murray. On this meridian the intersection f)f the parallels of 

 latitude 37' and 3745° were determined, and the parallels 

 themselves laid out to the westward for some distanci", and on 

 these parallels other meridians were laid out north and south as 

 required. This survey was in charge of the late Mr. R. L. J. 

 EUery, afterwards Government Astronomer. In order to 

 facilitate the measurements along these meridians and parallels, 

 and to assist in connecting with earlier surveys, a trigonometrical 

 survey was also instituted, and carried on sinmltaneously. Under 

 this survey the well-known cairns on such prominent hills as Mt. 

 Dandenong, Minders Peak (You Yangs), Mt. Macedon, Arthur's 

 Seat, Mt. Juliet, &.C., were erected and their positions determined 

 by a long series of oi)servations. 



