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mentions circles marked by stones, and others by sheaves of grass, 

 &c, laid around.* If the ground were easily worked, using the 

 earth scraped from the surface in levelling it would be the best 

 way of forming a boundary ; but if the ground were hard and 

 compact, as it generally is in dry seasons, enclosing the circle by 

 boughs or small logs would be the easiest way of doing it. If 

 stones were plentiful, laying them round the margin of the ring 

 would be a convenient way of denning it. In any of these cases an 

 enclosure is made, which is all that is required. 



There must be a number of gentlemen living in the interior of 

 the country where the natives are still numerous, who could 

 furnish us with valuable information in regard to Bora ceremonies. 

 If any of these gentlemen would take the trouble to collect all 

 the information within their reach on this subject, and send it 

 to me, their efforts will be suitably acknowledged. 



OBSERVATIONS AND ORBIT-ELEMENTS OF COMET 



GALE, 1894. 



By John Tebbutt, f.r.a.s. 



[Read before the Royal Society of N. 8. Wales, July 4, 1894] 



The object of this paper is to furnish the Society with a statement 

 of the Windsor observations of the comet recently visible here, 

 and of the orbit-elements derived from them. Seeing that the 

 comet itself was discovered in New South Wales and by a member 

 of our Society, I thought it would be well that a record concern- 

 ing it should appear in our Proceedings. On the evening of 

 April the 1st, Mr. Walter F. Gale of Paddington, f.r.a.s., while 

 scanning the heavens about the constellation Horologium, picked 



* Journ. Roy. Soc, N.8. Wales, xxm., p. 38. 

 —July 4, 1894. 



