8 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 
had brought out with him an astronomer (Mr. Charles Ri 
and assistant (Mr. James Dunlop), together with a compl 
equipment for an Observatory ; and very soon after landing, 
November, 1821, he had the building commenced close to his 
residence, so that he might superintend and actually take a share 
in the Observatory work. The building was 27 feet on each side, 
and only one story high, and had a flat roof, sometimes used fora 
place from which to observe. There were two domes, 12 feet it 
diameter ; and the instruments consisted of a 54-feet transit instr 
ment, by easkion a 2-feet mural circle, by the same maker} 
a 16-inch repeating circle, by Reichenbach ; a 46-inch achromatit 
telescope, on equatorial stand, by Banks; a clock by Hardy, and 
another by Bregnet. All these were maittie placed, and a great 
many observations taken, which formed the basis of a catalogue ot 
7,000stars, and several papers published in the « Philosophical Team : 
saction,” 1828 and 1829. Mr. Rumker left the Colony in 182% 
and Mr. Dunlop was appointed in his place, a position which 
held until the Observatory was dismantled, in about 1841. 7 
the instruments were removed the building was allowed to fal 
into decay, and at one time there was a prospect that ev 
during the past year the obelisk, a handsome grained white mare 
one, has been completed under the direction of the woe sf 
pointed, viz., Messrs. J. 8, Farnell, M.L.A., James Barnet, Co 
Architect, and H. ©. Russell, Government Astronomer. 
inscription on it reads:—“An Astronomical Observatory " 
founded here May 2, 1822, by Sir Thomas Macdougall Bris 
K.C.B., Governor of New South Wales, This obelisk was @ 
in 1880 to mark the site of the transit instrument 2 
Observatory.” 
In meteorology the field is so wide that I will not att 
‘a sketch of what has been done generally, Suffice it to 
that in our own Colony a steady advance has been made 
number of observing stations is steadily increased, and 
