397
for my private
£
in
ure
are not
nearly worth a year inclined of
instead of £600, and
200 a
consequence
I should have been
materially bellir off had I not re- -cigned my position in Ireland,
much more as
the isolated position
of the Obervatory
I
3.
living.
It was
raises the expense
the circumstance, that I
was induced to expect that
income would to
upon
the
success
my future
a
great
extent depond
my
of my investigations,
that made me anxious to secure
present appointment and caused
to
disregard questions of peramal
ort or expenditure of spare time
Comfort
in the commencement.
4. This department has since been ex-
lended to an
degree.
Instead
altogether unexpected
of $18,680 dollars as
originally proposed in the Report, the
Government
Government has sapended about $40,000
in its construction, and instead of the meteorological
work being confine.
the m
such observations
making of would be useful for
the proper
2 Lo
investigation of typhoons and other the local climate, the
elements of
achial in
investigation of
is in addition
aid
being
there
subjects
carried out by
of reports received from all accessible parts of China, these
partly
transmitted
companies whose
been enlisted.
in a
by
Co-
being
the telegraph
operation has
work now
complete and extensive
of This extension of my consisting metéorological
service- was ordered
in Mr March's letter
1
of
the 30th July
1883, which I had the honour to
receive upon my
arrival here, and
Mr. Marsh mentioned to me,
that eg
must