ASTRONOMICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL WORKERS. 



81 



Forwarded 

 to H. M. 



Secretary of 

 State by 

 Despatch. 

 141 



No. 



1847 



Copy required 

 for Duplicate 

 Despatch, 13th 

 August, by 

 the 23r(i. 

 Returned to 

 be put away. 

 21. 



Governor, dated 14th April, 1847, for the purpose of examining the 

 Inventory of Instruments and Books, &c., belonging to the Observatory 

 at Parramatta. 



INSTRUMENTS. 



An Astronomical Clock, by Brequet, with two square 

 pendulums ; reported to be in good order but not kept 

 going. 



An Astronomical Clock, by Hardy, in good order, going at 

 Sidereal Time. 



An Astronomical Clock, by Barraud, in good order, but not 

 going 



An Astronomical Clock, by Gremalde, recently cleaned and 

 in good order, stated by Mr. Dunlop to be in the Hall of 

 Government House, where it has been seen by Captain Kinc 



A Mural Circle, by Troughton, with four eye pieces. The 

 Instrument is stated to be in good order bvrt requires cleaning. 

 The pillar to which it is fixed has given way. 



A five and a half feet Transit, by Troughton, complete with 

 Ys and hanging level. This Instrument was taken from its 

 place to make room for the Meridian Circle, it is in good 

 order and ready for use. 



A sixteen inch Repeating Circle, by Eeichenbach, tlie 

 Verniers have been removed from the Instrument, but are 

 ready to be fitted. The pillar has given way. 



An Equatorial Stand, and forty-six inch Achromatic 

 Telescope, by Banks. Both require cleaning but otherwise 

 are ready for use. There is also a Micrometer Eye-piece in a 

 separate case. 



A Parallactic Instrument, by Cambrier and Le Noir. Much 

 damaged and unfit for use. 



A Magnetic Transit, by Dolland, apparently lit for use. 



A Dipping Needle, by Gambey, apparently tit for use. 



Borda's Apparatus, for measuring the ^length of a 

 Pendulum — damaged. 



A Platina [Sphere, with knife-edges, 



A Diurnal Variation Instrument. 



A Mountain Barometer, by Troughton. in good order. 



A Mountain Barometer, now at the South Head of Port 

 Jackson. 



A Barometer, by Banks, in order, but not in use. 



A Kater's Azimuth Compass, in good order. 



A pair of eighteen inch Globes, date 1791, much injured. 



An Eirometer, by Jones, in order. 



An Hygrometer, by Saussiere, damaged. 



A Zenith Sector, in two cases, apparently having never 

 been used, and considered to be in good order. 



A Night Glass — useless. 



Several Thermometers, broken and useless. 



A Telescope, by Berge, one of the glasses in the Eye-piece 

 broken. 



A Sextant, by Jones, in order. 



An Artificial Horizon, by Jones. 



A MicroscoiDc, by Banks. 



A Meridian Circle, forty-two inches diameter, by Jones, the 

 Telescope having an aperture of three and three-quarter inches. 

 This Instrumant is set up where the five and a half feet 

 Transit was fixed. The level is broken, and the Index Circle 

 very badly graduated, the setting vei'nier is fixed very 



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