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Mr. Dunlop got two other gold medals, which are now in the 

 possession of his relations in this colony. I have seen all of 

 these. Mr. James Kay, of the Colonial Architects Department, 

 who married Mr. Dunlop's niece, has the medal presented by the 

 Royal Astronomical Society, which has on one side a head with 

 the words " Royal Astronomical Society of London, instituted 

 MDCCCXX, Nubem pellente mathese,^' and on the other side 

 Lord Ross' telescope, with the w^ords " Quicquid nitet 7iotandum, 

 James Dunlop, 1828;" and Mr. Robert Dunlop, of Sydney, nephew 

 of the astronomer, has the one presented by the Royal Institute 

 of France. This has on it the words " Institute Royal de France," 

 and on the other side '^ Prix D'Astronomie, 3f Dunlop Astronome.' 

 " A La Nouvelle Hollande, 1835." The third medal was from 

 the King of Denmark, and is now in the possession of Dr. 

 Service, of Sydney. This has on one side a head surrounded by 

 the words " Fredericus VI. Rex Danice" and on the other 

 " Non frustra signorum ohitus speculamur et ortus." In the center 

 a female figure, pointing to a globe held in her left hand, and 

 below the words '' Gometa visus, Sept., 1833," and engraved on^ 

 the edge " Dunlop." Mr. Dunlop's letters were lost or destroyed 

 before lie died, and there are no recorded particulars relative to 

 the two foreign medals. 



Once in England Dunlop went back to his old chief, and 

 became his assistant in the Observatory which he had established 

 at Makerstown, and from time to time we lind references to his 

 work there. In the Royal Astronomical Society's Notices, (Vol. 

 1, p. 120) is a paper containing the places of Encke's Comet as 

 reduced from thirty observations made by Mr. Dunlop, between 

 October 26 and December 25,^1828, at Sir Thomas Brisbane's 

 Observatory, at Makerstown, Roxburghshire. 



Again a letter from Sir T. Brisbane contained nineteen occulta- 

 tions of stars observed at Makerstown, during 1829 and 1830, 

 chiefly by Mr. Dunlop. (Loc. cit. Vol. 1, p. 196.) And another 

 letter from Sir Thomas Brisbane, containing observations of the 

 moon and moon culminating stars, in which he says these obser- 

 vations were almost entirelymade by Mr. Dunlop, in 1829 and 1830. 

 {Loc. cit. Vol. II., p. 30. Dunlop evidently w^orked up the whole 

 of these observatilons before he left Makerstown, and the result 

 was communicated to the Royal Astronomical Society, April 8, 

 1831. He must have left England almost immediately after this, 

 for the oflicial record here shows that he was appointed Super- 

 intendent of the Parramatta Observatory, on November 11, 1831. 

 From this time forward no record of his work is to be found in 

 the Royal Astronomical Society's Memoirs or Notices, and the 

 only records I can find is contained in eight books of MS. 

 observations which came with the instruments and are now in 

 Sydney Observatory. In the first book the record begins in 

 January 1832, and in that year there are upwards of two 



