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forms an integral part of that Department under the name of 

 Technical Education Branch. Branch Museums are established 

 in each of the towns where Branch Technical Colleges exist. With 

 a view to acquire specimens for these local museums Mr. Maiden, 

 f.l.s., f.c.s., the indefatigable Curator of the Sydney Technological 

 Museum, has just published, through the Department of Public 

 Instruction, a most useful pamphlet entitled : " Hints for the 

 collection and preservation of raw products suitable for Techno- 

 logical Museums." In it Mr. Maiden gives a synopsis of desirable 

 objects for such Museums, and appeals to every one desirous of 

 helping in this important matter, to forward such specimens as 

 may come under notice, to the local or central Technological 

 Museums. The Railway Commissioners, recognising the import- 

 ance of this work to the colony, have kindly granted free carriage 

 by rail for specimens intended for such local or central Museums. 

 Copies of this useful pamphlet may be obtained on application at 

 the above mentioned Museums. 



The Technological Museum in Sydney with its 30,000 specimens 

 still located in an iron shed in the Domain, sadly requires im- 

 proved accommodation, It is therefore a matter for congratula- 

 tion that Parliament has already voted <£ 19,000 (in addition to 

 <£5,000 for a site) for a Technological Museum worthy of the 

 Colony. To give some idea of the extent to which the Colony is 

 pushing Technical Education, it may be stated that contracts 

 already let in connection with the Sydney College alone amount 

 to close upon £48,000, while £20,000 are already voted by Par- 

 liament for Technical Colleges and Technological Museums at 

 Bathurst, Broken Hill, Maitland and Newcastle. 



Astronomy. — In astronomy the Sydney Observatory under the 

 able management of Mr. H. C. Russell, b.a., c.m.g., f.r.s., Govern- 

 ment Astronomer, has been adding materially to our knowledge 

 of the southern skies by a series of photographs which take in all 

 the most brilliant part of the Milky- Way, especially the parts in 

 Argo-novis, Crux, and Centaurus. The photographs were taken 

 with three hours and upwards of exposure, and the most perfect 



