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Bulletin of the Museum of Compara- 

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 by Outram Bangs, vol. XL., No. 1; 

 Changes accompan.ying the migration of 

 the eye, and observations on the Tractus 

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The Gums, Resins, and other vege- 

 table exudations of Australia ; Useful 

 Australian Plants ; Notes on Eucalyptus 

 trees, from the point of view of the Bee- 

 keeper; Some Australian Vegetable 

 Fibres; The Cork Oak (Quercus suber), 

 a useful tree for New South Wales ; Re- 

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 by J. H. Maiden, Director of the Bo- 

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 author. 



A list of plants collected in the vicin- 

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Memoirs and Proceedings of the Man- 

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 Society. 



The Gecgraphica.l Journal. May, 1902, 

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Catalogue of Neiv ^aid Recent Books, 

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The Scottish Geographical Maarazine, 

 vol. XYin., No. o,*"May, 1902. ^ From 

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Journal of the Society of Arts, May, 

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The Year Book of the Royal Society, 

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The Ibis, April, 1902. 

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 April, 1902. From the Society. 



HOBART OBSERVATORY 

 AND ITS WORK. 



DEPUTATION TO THE PREMIER. 



A large deputation, reprcseutii-g the 

 Royal Society ot Tasmania and other pub- 

 lic bodies at Hobart, waited upon the 

 Premier, the Hon. N. E. Lewis, C.M.G., 

 on Tuesday, June 17, 191)2, with respect to 

 tiie work ot the Hobart Obseryaiory. 



The Hon. INicholas Brown said it was 

 known that the Pederal Government had 

 been m communication with the Premier 

 Gi Tasmania on the subject of the Ob£er- 

 vatoi}- at Hobart, and it was thought that, 

 in reply, to furnish mere iacts would be 

 somewnat misleading. Neither the staff 

 nor the equipment o± the Observatory was 

 satisfactory. There was in existence a 

 report upon the subject from Mr. C. 

 Wragge, of Queensland, who visited Tas- 

 manid ^ome j'ears ago, which stated what 

 was wanting. ^ Mr. ^Vragge stated that 

 oiSciO would be sufficient to provide the 

 necessary staff and properly equip the Ob- 

 s8rva.tory for its work. At a meedng of 

 the Boyal Society, held on the lUch, the 

 loiicwing resolution was adopted: — "That 

 the Council be requested to arrange for a 

 deputation of its members to wait upon 

 the Hon. the Premier for the purpose of 

 urging that the reply to be sent to the 

 Acting Premier of the Commonwealth to 

 the queries as to tha present staff, cost, 

 and equipment of the meteorological es- 

 tablishment of Tasmania should be accom- 

 panied with a statement that the present 

 arrangements for astronomical 'and 

 meteorological observations are altogether 

 inadequate, and that in the general in- 

 terests of the Commonwealth, it will be 

 necessary in the future to p^ov^ide for a 

 fuller equipment, and a better paid staff, 

 as suggested by Mr. Clement Wragge in 

 his report to the Tasmanian Government, 

 dated August, 1895, and oy Commander 

 Purey-Cust, in his report, dated Apiil 5, 

 1834, and laid upon the table of the House 

 of Assembly on July 10,1894.'^ He handed 

 copies of these two reports to the Premier, 

 and urged, on behalf of the Eoyal Society, 

 that the Acting Premier of the Federal 

 Government may be fully informed as to 

 what wou'ld be required to be done both as 

 to astronomical and meteorological equip- 

 ment before the Tasmanian Observatory 

 can do its work effectively as part of a 

 general national organisation. 



Mr. A. Morton read the following let- 

 ters, which had been leceivecl on the sub- 

 ject of the denutation : — 



"Bushy Park, June 14, 1902. Mr. A. 

 Morton. Dear Sir, — As I am afraid I can- 

 not bs at the deputation on Tuesday, I 

 am sending a record of Mr. "Wrrgge's dis- 

 turbances. I have had to rule the parser, 

 and the reiadings of barometer are marked 



