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and many of them are in constant, and others in occasional use at 

 the Observatory, but the funds of the Committee do not at present 

 allow of the employment of a mechanical assistant, although one is 

 much needed. 



Library. — During the year the Library has received, as presents, the 

 publications of 



14 English Scientific Societies and Institutions, and 



47 Foreign and Colonial Scientific Societies and Institutions. 



Ventilation Experiments. — The Sub-Committee of the Sanitary 

 Institute of Great Britain is still engaged in experiments on the 

 ventilating power of cowls of different form, for which purpose space 

 has been placed at its disposal in the experimental house. In addition 

 to this, the Institute has recently erected a wooden hut with an elevated 

 wooden platform over it in the park, at a sufficient distance from the 

 Observatory to avoid the eddies in the wind caused by it and the 

 adjacent buildings. 



Observatory and Grounds. — The buildings and grounds have been 

 kept in repair throughout the year, and the rooms in the basement and 

 some of the upper rooms have been painted and whitened by the 

 Board of Works. 



No action having been taken by- the Commissioners with respect to 

 the footpath across the park, its temporary repair has been carried on 

 at the expense of the Committee. 



Personal Establishment. 

 The staff employed is as follows : — 



G. M. Whipple, B.Sc, Superintendent. 

 T. W. Baker, First Assistant. 



J. Foster, Verification Department. 



J. W. Hawkesworth, Tabulation of Meteorological Curves. 



H. McLaughlin, Solar Computations and care of Accounts. 

 F. G. Figg, Magnetic Observer. 



E. G. Constable, Solar Observations and care of Library. 

 T. Gunter -j 



C. Taylor s Verification Department. 



H. Clements I 



A. Dawson, Photography. 



W. Boxall, Office duties. 



J. Dawson, Messenger and Care-taker. 



J. Hillier, having been appointed Assistant to the Curator of the 

 Museums in the Royal Gardens, Kew, resigned in December last. 



