ASTRONOMICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL WORKERS. 79 



Minute, No. 58. 

 List of Instruments (with Letter from Government Astronomer.) 



Four Astronomical Clocks, best description ... £490 



Mural Circle, by Troughton 200 



Transit Instrument, 5.J feet, ditto 10.5 



Repeating Circle, IG-inch, Eeichenbach ... 1.30 



Ecjuatorial Telescope, «&c. (by Banks) ... ... 60 



French ditto ■ 42 



Declination Instruments, complete, by Holland 30 



Inclination ditto, Gambey, Paris 42 



Borda's Pendulum, complete for determining 



the figure of the Earth 85 



? Mountain Barometers, by Troughton ... II 



Magnetic Transit, by Josker, Paris ... ... 15 



Observatory Barometer and Four Thermometers 10 



Kater's Azimuth Compass ... ... ... 10 



Pair 18-inch Globes, Loudon 19 



Levelling Telescope, complete ... .. ... 12 



Astronomical Books, &c. ... ... ... 35.3 13 



£1,614 13 

 [APPENDIX C] 



Minute, No. 98. 



Government House, 



21st December, 1827. 

 Let Mr. Runiker be informed that he will be immediately notified as 

 Government Astronomer of this Colony, and that he will be allowed a 

 salary of £300 a year from the time of his taking charge of the Observatory, 

 until His Majesty's Government shall fix the salary to which he may be 

 consideied entitled. 



(Signed) R. A. DARLING. 



[APPENDIX D.] 



Government Hou.se, 



16th July, 1829. 

 Let it be notified that the Secretary of State has been pleased to confirm 

 the appointment of Mr. Rumker, as Government Astronomer, with a 

 salary at the rate of £300 a year ; and also sanctions the expense which 

 may be incurred in providing Mr. Rumker with accommodation at the 

 Observatory. 



(Signed) R. A. DARLING. 



Rumker's last work at Pai'ramatta was in December, 1828, 

 and it would appear that he then left the Colony to go to 

 England and get instruments for the Trigonometrical Survey. 



[APPENDIX E.] 

 Minute, 130. 



1st September, 1830. 

 The Secretary of State having signified his desire (Mr. Twiss" letter, 21st 

 December, 1827), that accommodation for the Colonial Astronomer, pro- 

 posed to be added to the Observatory, should be expedited as Mr. Rumker 

 was preparing to return and resume the duties of his situation. Let the 

 Director of Public Works Captain Dumaresque and Forbes be requested to 

 proceed to Parramatta and examine the Observatory, so as to ascertain 

 whether the building is sufficiently good to have the proposed additions 

 made to it. If not, let them examine whether there is any more eligible 

 site in the neighbourhood for establishing the Observatory. 



(Signed) R. A. DARLING. 



