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ing thoroughly tested. Both work to perfection, and the whole 

 installation is undoubtedly the best designed and most complete and 

 convenient in operation of any ever built, and reflects great credit 

 on the makers, the Warner and Swasey Co. of Cleveland. 



The parabolization of the principal mirror, 73 inches in diameter, 

 was delayed for lack of a large plane to test the surface, but this need 

 has been met and the mirror is now rapidly approaching completion. 

 It is expected to be finished in the first part of June, and as soon as it 

 reaches Victoria a very few days will sufïîce to place it in position and 

 work with the instrument can be commenced. 



As no additional buildings can be obtained this year, it is proposed 

 that the director and one assistant shall make the necessary preliminary 

 adjustments and experimental work, preparatory to undertaking the 

 complete programme as soon as the buildings are ready. In this way 

 this work can be efficiently carried on and the instrument profitably 

 employed in the interim. 



VIII. — Report of Honorary Librarian. 



The Honorary Librarian begs to report that on the advice of a 

 special committee, a series of 300 volumes has been selected and is 

 now being bound in buckram, a material represented as being the most 

 durable for large volumes. The series comprises about 100 volumes 

 of reports of the Royal Society of London, 30 volumes of the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh and about the same number each from the 

 Royal Societies of Glasgow, Dublin, South Australia, Queensland, 

 Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and South Africa. A few 

 volumes in some of the above not being complete are withheld for the 

 present. The binding of the publications of the Associated Royal 

 Societies was thought to be of the first importance, other Scientific 

 or Historical works will be added to the list to complete the contract. 

 In answer to the appeal sent out by the secretaries of the various 

 sections for donations of the works of members of the Society the 

 Library has received the following: — 



