234 PROCEEDINGS. 



Tebbutt, John, F.B,. A. S.— Observations of Comet a 1SS8. 

 On the Difference of Longitude between Mr. 

 Tebbutt's Observatory, Windsor, N.S.W., and the 

 Government Observatories at Sydney and 

 Melbourne. The Author. 



Triibner's Americayi, European, and Oriental Lite ary Record, 



New Series, Vol. ix., Nos. 1 and 2, 1888. The Publishers. 



WEDNESDA T, 5 SEPTEMBER, 1888. 



A Conversazione was held in the Great Hall of the University, 

 under the management of a Committee composed of the President, 

 Sir Alfred Roberts, H. C. Russell, B.A., F.R.S., one of the Vice- 

 Presidents, the Hon. Secretaries, Prof. Liversidge, M.A., F.R.S., 

 and F. B. Kyngdon, and Messrs. Charles Moore, F.L.S., P. R.. 

 Pecllev, Dr. Leibius, M.A., Prof. Threlfall, M.A., and Prof. 

 Warren, M. Inst. C.E. 



The Hall and the approaches were tastefully and artistically 

 decorated with flags, shields, and festoons of greenery. Mr. 

 Charles Moore, Director of the Botanic Gardens kindly furnished 

 a supply of palms, ferns and rare pot-plants. 



The Physical Laboratory was thrown open, and experiments 

 were conducted by Prof. Threlfall and Mr. John F. Adair, also the 

 Medical School of Prof. Anderson Stuart and the Mechanical 

 Laboratories and workshops, where the large testing machine was. 

 exhibited in work by Prof. Warren. 



The Macleay Museum and the various Lecture Rooms were 

 also thrown open to the guests. 



Mr. F. Morley presided at the organ, and select pieces were 

 played at intervals. 



The number of guests present was about 1,500, the unusually 

 large gathering being due to the fact that invitation cards had 

 been issued to the members of the Australian Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, the Inaugural Meeting of which had 

 just closed. 



His Excellency Lord Carrington G.C.M.G. was unable to attend 

 through absence from town, but the Premier Sir Henry Parkes,. 

 K.C.M.G., and party, and various members of the Ministry and 

 of both Houses of Parliament were present. 



List of Exhibitors. 



Brindley, Thomas — Microscope showing Crystals under Polarized 

 Light. 



Collie, Rev. R., F.L.S. — 1. Microscope and objects. 2. Fossils 

 from the Hunter River Valley. 3. Specimens of Ore from 

 Victoria, Queensland, and New South Wales. 4. Mounted 

 Ferns from the New Hebrides, New Zealand and New South 

 Wales. 



