MLDTISD I}, Al< I SI U, /SS y 



\ ]UchPiiON to the monilxi ^ of the RomI Society of NSW 



A\ IS \hU It till Societ> s House at ^ p iii At tlie iiuitition of 



pn -^ent md spent tlie e\cnin^ plci-,aiitl> in coii\ ersation iiid in 

 iii^pcLtiii^ a \ iiiet^ of exliil)its of i snentih( character 



^fr TUissell the ('government \stronomei, loaned in interesting 

 cliiit of 16 drx\\in£?sof Jupiter, foui tor each of the yeii^ l^^Tb, 

 80 S) and ^9 These it in i}- be mentioned, wete selected ti >iu 

 upw irds of two hundied diiwm^s of the phntt made h\ hiin 

 since ls76 Eich st t seived to show the maikingb on the wliole 

 circumference of the pKnet and displayed in a very stiikin^' w i) 

 the 4 It it changes whuh ^'O on in it fiom veir to yeai Tor 

 instant in 1871) Mr Russell expl inud tin lo w is a gicat exten 

 sion of tin eijuitoiiil belts so much ^o th it the ^'i«at red spot 

 wxs included, and foimed as it were a pait of them P>> ISTS 



tluv iud then'.nmnninn evtXt ukT I'm une "^ei y'^l'l" u^H dohned 



oft(n lo)ked like I, ni die of ltd silk In l^^) the> h ul exp iiuh d 

 i,'im ovfi half tlu ud spot but w, u chuth rtmukibh fori 



ofduk almost bl u k, pitulu s on tlie m It opj osiu the red spot 



