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that the present position of electrical standards—as outlined in this 
Report—is very satisfactory. 
With a view to completing the business arrangements connected with 
the republication, the Committee recommend that they be reappointed, 
that Lord Rayleigh be Chairman and Dr. R. T. Glazebrook Secretary. 
Establishing a Solar Observatory in Australia.—Report of the 
Committee, consisting of Sir DAvip GinL (Chairman), Dr. 
W. G. Durrie~tp (Secretary), Rev. A. L. Cortiz, Dr. 
W. J. S. Lockyer, Mr. F. McCuean, and Professors A. 
ScnHusTeR and H. H. TURNER, appointed to aid the work of 
Establishing a Solar Observatory in Australia. 
Tue following report has been received from Dr. Duffield relating to 
the progress of the movement to establish a solar observatory in 
Australia :— 
‘The Commonwealth Government of Australia has been pleased to 
accept the following apparatus, which, through the generosity of the 
gentlemen named below, I was enabled to offer in 1909 towards the 
equipment of a solar observatory. 
“1. A 9-inch Grubb refractor. 
“2. A 26-inch reflecting telescope. | The gift of Mr. James Oddie, 
“3. An 8-inch reflecting telescope. of Ballarat, Victoria. 
“4. Electrical equipment. 
“5. A 6-inch Grubb refractor, the gift of the trustees of the estate 
of the late Lord Farnham (Sir Howard Grubb, F.R.S., and the late 
Mr. W. E. Wilson, F.R.S.). 
“The Commonwealth Government has already taken delivery of 
the Oddie gift, and I have been authorised by the Commonwealth to 
spend £100 upon the Farnham telescope and to forward it to Australia. 
“In view of this action by the Government there can be no doubt 
of their intentions in the matter of solar work. 
“I have consequently recently offered to the Government without 
further guarantee the following equipment for solar work :— 
“6. A spectroheliograph ; 7. A Littrow spectrograph ; 8. A pyrhelio- 
meter. 
“In addition to these there will be attached to the Farnham tele- 
scope :— 
“9. An Evershed prominence spectroscope. 
‘These offers are rendered possible by the generosity of gentlemen 
who either have at heart the progress of solar physics or the prestige of 
Australian science.’ 
The following report over the signature of the Commonwealth 
Statistician concerning the choice of site will be read with interest :— 
“In January 1910 the Commonwealth Government appointed a 
Board consisting of R. A. Macdonald (Under-Secretary for Lands, 
N.S.W.), R. P. Sellors (Geodetic Survey, N.S.W.), C. R Scrivener 
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