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transit room. The

for the Lidereal clock to be erected also in the amplext ventilation will be Afforded to this room with a view to Equalizing the temperature within it as much as possible.

The two isolated wooden huts with felted nors for the magnetic instruments, ie: the dip "circle and unifilar magnetometer, will be

erected on

the wester Eminence

of

the hill.

and about 300 feet distant from the main building . They should be placed at once in position that when the time arrives

sunken chamber for

such a

for building

a

the

tive

self recording magnetometers they may left undisturbedly in their original sites. The two huts will possets

Special features Requiring description; they may

с

no

be facsimiles

of the small and inexpensive Structures used for the same,

the same purpose

purpose at New Observatory.

"The same precautions will of course be observed against draughts from faulty, windows, and

gainst the Employment of

only

iron in any of the

The fittings. roof for Equalizing temperature .

addition will be a double

temperature . The upper

roof

will act as an umbrella to the lower

OKL

And this shade with the current of air passing in between them will have

a

sensible.

Effect

The

The

upper 2007s

will

in reducing the Effect of temperature

nomento

the magnets.

be so constructed as to be Easily swept off by the typhoon without injury to the lower roop or the huts themselves. To allempt to fasten them down and render them typhoon proof

would be to jeopardize the Entire structures.

The cost of the whole of these Observatory buildings complete will be $11000

Equipment . The following

are the instruments

and apparatus proposed, together with their prices.

і

(Astronomical Branch.)

three inch transit instrument by

Simms, with accessories complete

1 Sidereal clock by E Dental?

towork a sympathetic dial

5

And bearings to pest on Stone piers) #130.0.0

84.0.0

Seconds contact fitted to the foregoing

1500.0

12.0.0

200

$0.00

12.0.0

Sympathetic dial

Battery and wire for the foregoing

I Mean kine clock.

An hourly contact apparatus to Jame

a three-current relay

Magnetic Apparaties for selling the mean

time Clock to hime

2 Marine Chronometers,

1 for reserve use

12 10.0

6.0.0

60..0.0

20.0.0

Timeball apparatus complete, by Varley 400.0.0

Packing and shipping

Erection of Same

Packing and Shipping

50.00

2000

Total astronomical Equipment £ 873.0.0

(Meteorological Branch)

a Barograph verified at Kew including fee 80.15.0

a

thermograph do

A Sun Shine re corder do

do

do

do

do

Carried over

117.10.0

12.13.0.

f 210418.0

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