202 H. C. RUSSELL. 
CURRENT PAPERS, No. 2. 
By H. C. RusskEtt, B.a., 0.M.G., F.R.S. 
[With Plate XII.] 
[Read before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, September 2, 1896.) 
In October 1894, I read a short paper before this Society oB 
forty-three current papers that I had collected during the previous 
twelve years. The present paper contains one hundred and fifty- 
four collected within the past two years; many of these are 
important and call for publication. Twenty-three of the one 
hundred and fifty-four were kindly sent to me by the late Dr. 
Neumayer, Director up to the time of his death of the Meteoro- 
logical Observatory at Hamburg. His letter stated that he 
thought they would be useful to me in the work I had undertaken, 
and they are certainly valuable contributions to the study of 
ocean currents about Australia. Their special interest will be 
pointed out presently. 
T am also indebted to Capt. A. Simpson of the s.s. Thermopy!@ 
for sending me copies of forty-one papers which he had himself 
collected. Some of these are of great local interest, and eighteen 
others are north of the Equator and equally valuable, but outside 
the area included in our chart. And to a host of other friends, 
some of whom will be referred to in the list which follows, and 
to all of whom I record my very cordial thanks for the hearty 
and persistent efforts which have: brought together the papers 
which form the basis of this report. Only a small percentage 
of that work ever sees the light of publication, but every papet 
that comes to me contains valuable data about our coastal and 
other currents. 
