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moat Governments expensive observatories were kept up, with highly salaried 

 officials. Here all the meteorological observations were taken without any 

 outlay whatever to the colony ; and it was little to ask that a record involving 

 so large an amount of care and trouble should be printed at public expense. He 

 could vouch for the accuracy of the tables, and if, on their distribution over 

 the world, they did nothing more, they would, at all events, show that no 

 colony of Great Britain possesses a climate equal to that of Tasmania, 



Air. Davies, having heard what had fallen from Mr. Abbott and the previous 

 speaker, thcnight the Society could do no less than record upon the minutes of 

 their proceedings their sense of the patriotism and zeal exhibited by Mr. 

 Abbott in the compilation of these valuable tables for scientific and public 

 use, and moved that the thanks of the Society be given to Mr. Abbott accord- 

 ingly. 



Mr. Johnston having seconded, 



The Chairman, in putting the resolution, passed a flattering eulogium on 

 ]\Ir. Abbott, for the pains he had taken in the compilation of the records. 

 He had no doubt they would soon be printed, when the public would reap 

 the advantage of Mr. Abbott's valuable labors. 



The motion having been unanimously carried, 



Ml-. Abbott in returning thanks hoped that his remarks about salaries, 

 wovdd not convey the impression that he wished for any remuneration for 

 his trouble. No such idea had ever entered his mind. What little he had 

 been able to do, was done from no mercenary motive, but from a pure love 

 for a science in which he had always taken the deepest interest. 



The usual vote of thanks having been accorded to the donors of the various 

 presentations, the meeting terminated. 



