CONTENTS 
Magnetic Observations page 1 
Latitude of the Observatory 2 
Lunar Observations. Eclipses of Jupiter s Satellites. Occultations of fixed 
Stars 17 
Solar Eclipses 18 
Transit of Mercury over the Suns Disk 20 
Lunar Eclipses 22 
Moon-culminating Stars 23 
Longitude of the Observatory 26 
Right Ascensions of the Moon 28 
Geographical Position of Port Jackson 29 
Solar Observations 31 
Solstices observed with the Repeating Circle 37 
Solstices observed with the Mural Circle 41 
Inferior Conjunction of Venus 46 
Opposition of Mars 50 
South Polar Distances of the Moon 52 
Comets 54 
Determination of the Right Ascensions of some of the principal Stars of the 
Southern Hemisphere by a method independent of the Transit ... 69 
South Polar Distances of some of the principal Stars of the Southern Hemi- 
sphere, determined by superior and inferior Culminations 81 
Catalogue of the South Polar Distances of the preceding Stars, with their 
Constants of Aberration and Nutation 150 
Length of the Pendulum at Paramatta 151 
Additions and Corrections 151 
