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Telescope, and new pattern Officer's Telescope ; the War Office for a 

 barometer supplied to the Netley Hospital ; and the makers for a new 

 Watkin's Clinometer, and Watkin's Aneroid with open scales ; as 

 well as various instruments for the Anglo-German Boundary Com- 

 mission on the Gold Coast. 



List of Fees. The Chairman of the Committee, with a view of 

 making the public more conversant with the systems of verification 

 and rating in use at the Observatory, prepared in the early part of the 

 year a pamphlet entitled " Tests and Certificates of the Kew Ob- 

 servatory." Of these 1,000 copies were printed, of which 200 have 

 been distributed to the principal opticians and instrument makers, 

 and others sold to the general public. 



The total number of other instruments compared in the past year 

 was as follows : 



Air-meters 5 



Anemometers 14 



Aneroids 62 



Artificial horizons 3 



Barometers, Marine 134 



,, Standard 44 



Station 28 



Binoculars 336 



Compasses 17 



Hydrometers 364 



Inclinometers 1 



Magnets 2 



Navy Telescopes 152 



Rain Gauges 15 



Rain Measures 33 



Sextants 346 



Shades 78 



Sunshine Recorders 3 



Theodolites 5 



Thermometers, Arctic 71 



Avitreous or Immisch's 346 



Chemical 63 



Clinical 12536 



Deep sea 40 



Meteorological 4901 



,, Mountain 24 



Solar radiation 44 



Standards 100 



TJnifilars . , 3 



Total 19770 



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