48 Anniversary Address. 



His official position at Sydney, as Grovernment Astronomer, is 

 now being worthily filled by bis former Computer, H. C. Russell 

 Esq., B.A. (Sydn.), whose name appears in the list of contributors 

 to this volume ; and to another able member of our Society, also 

 mentioned in the Address, P. F. Adams, Esq., Surveyor- Q-eneral 

 of N.S.W., has fallen the duty of continuing the Trigonometrical 

 Survey of the Colony commenced by Mr. Smalley. As a native 

 of the same county in England, to which belonged the late 

 Grovernment Astronomer and the present Surveyor-Greneral, this 

 commemoration of their consecutive services becomes to me a 

 somewhat more suitable duty than it might otherwise appear. I 

 have now spoken for myself in relation to the former. But as 

 concerns the Society to which we have belonged, it may be proper 

 to add, that, at the meeting in August, next after Mr. Smalley's 

 death, it was my privilege to submit the following Eesolution, 

 which was supported by Professor A. M. Thomson, D.S. (who had 

 been a Student under Professor Smalley at King's College), and 

 unanimously adopted : — 



"The Eoyal Society of New South Wales, at this its first 

 monthly meeting after the death of the late G-. E. Smalley, Esq, 

 desires to express its sympathy with his famDy, and to record on 

 its minutes its regret at his loss, with a deep sense of the 

 valuable services which he rendered to the Society during his 

 connection with it." 



W. B. C. 



St. Leonards' 28th Eeb., 1871. 



