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Packing and Shipping
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70.00.00
An anemograph
A rainguage)
Brought forward I 210, 18.0
36.0.0
15.0.0
Total meteorological Equipment of 331, 18% 0
(Magnetic Brauch)
A unifilar magnetometer a verification
A dip circle.
A clock beating seconds
Packing and Shipping
do
Total &
magnetic Equipment £
(Resume)
Astronomical Equipment
Meteorological. ditto
6575,0
33,12.0
20.0.0
500
23.17.0
£673.0.0
331, 18:0
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# 1328 11 15,0
Note : f 1328, 15.0 is off 6380.
Magnetic
ditto
Jotal Equipment
Cost of buildings
Cost of Equipment
Cost of furniture
Total Estimates
Cost of telegraph Connection
Cost of freight
Unforeseen Contingencies
11000
6380
300
200.
300-
500
Grand total cost of founding the Observa 18,680
It will be observed that in this Equipment the
most notable mission,
a from
the list.
ist of instruments furnished by the New Committee of the Royal So. "Ciet is the ket of photographical self registering
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instruments, (magnetic). These are deferred because they entail a sunken building of special construes tion at an additional outlay of about $6000. Owing to the large proportion of iron in the soil of Hong Kong, as already mentione on, none of the building materie to available in the Colony or the neighbouring mainland of China could be safely Imployed for this structure. All would have to be specially imported from Manilla..... Hence the reason of the increased. outlay.
In these Circumstances the Kew Committee of the Royal Society, may
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disposed to concur in the magnetic observations being for the present nou Automatic, and limited to be observations inclination and total force, and
д declination as well as deflection and vibration fu determining absolute horizontal force for which the unifilar magnetometer and dipcircle. are provided and may be Conveniently worked in the wooden huts. When the time arrives for having selprecording instruments in an under- ground observatory, it would be most desirable to Complete this branch.
og magnetic study by the addition of a photoheliograph for the registration of sun spots. Personal Experience of the locality, and The climate will have Inabled the Superintendent before then to decide in respect of the Sunk building whether the photographic laboratory might not, ou account of The destruction.
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instruments by atmospheric moisture, [which no ventilating
devices will Ever Subdue in such a climate as
be more a
that of Hong Kong, be
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advantageously
placed above ground. After a shart residence
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