CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882 — Page 508

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Estimate the project

does not fall

short of

7

the recommendations

the Kew Committee

in respect

of the Royal Society in

7 Meteorology

of the electrograph is added to the instru=

& ments in

2007

list. In

respect of

terrestrial

magnetion the underground obzewalory

are.

and self recording magnetometers omitted in my project for the reasons given

in the report.

1.4.

I adhere to my opinion that, apart

from the question

wiser to make a

on a

of Expense,

it will be

in this matter

beginning

Comparatively modest Scale and to

Enlarge the Equipment of the observatory and

as the

the range of its work, by degrees

Experintendent's acquired personal sœ=

perience of

the climate and other local

Conditions may guide him. For this reason

I have stated in the Enclosure that I canust

look.

upon

it in the light of a mixportione

that we should begin with a reduced

Scheme.

zrak

5. The Salary originally suggested by for the Superintendent was £500 ayear.

The addition

of a free residence in the obser

: ratory building would make this Equivalent

of to 7600; but I think that as the work the Observatory takes wider proportions The Superintendent's Emoluments shouts

be increased and his staff augmented.

I have the honour to be,

Your

ofer

most obedient Servant.

Mich.

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