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CHAPTER VIII.

ASTRONOMY AND GEODESY IN AUSTRALIA : Part 8.

By Pietro Baracchi, F.R.A.S.,

Government Astronomer of Victoria.

“The Commonwealth of Australia; Federal Handbook, prepared in connection with the eighty-fourth meeting of the
British Association for the Advancement of Science,
held in Australia, August, 1914.”
pg.326-390. (1914)

By British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Federal Council in Australia, Australia.
Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, George Handley Knibbs

(3) APPENDIX A.

LIST OF REFERENCES.

Corresponding to the numbers (1) to (41) as quoted in the Text.
  1. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. Vol. 8. Melbourne Meeting, 1900; Inaugural address by R. L. J. Ellery.
  2. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. Vol. 1. Sydney Meeting, 1888 : Section A. H. C. Russell— “Astronomical and Meteorological Workers in New South Wales, 1778 to 1860.”
  3. Professor Ernest Scott, Life of Flinders.
  4. Catalogue of 7,385 stars prepared from observations made in the years 1822 to 1826 at the Observatory at Parramatta, New South Wales, founded by Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Macdougall Brisbane ; the Computations made, and the Catalogue constructed by Mr. William Richardson. (London. 1835.)
  5. Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. 3.
  6. H. C. Russell. The Sydney Observatory : History and Progress. (Sydney. 1882.) [pg.385]
  7. Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. 8, p.251.
  8. J. G. Galle. Verzeichniss der Elemente der bisher berechneten Cometenbahen. (Leipzig. 1894.)
  9. Astronomical Observations made at the Sydney Observatory in the year 1859 by W. Scott, M.A. (Sydney. 1860.)
  10. John Tebbutt. On the Progress and present State of Astronomical Science in New South Wales. (From the Industrial Progress of New South Wales, 1870, p. 617.)
  11. Melbourne Observatory. Astronomical Results. Vol 1. (Melbourne. 1869.)
  12. Victoria. Sixth Report of the Board of Visitors to the Observatory. (Melbourne. 1870.)
  13. Observations of the Southern Nebulae made with the Great Melbourne Telescope from 1869 to 188>. Part I. (Melbourne. 1885.)
  14. Royal Observatory Greenwich ; Photo-heliograph Results, 1874-1885. (Edinburgh. 1907.)
  15. South Australia. Report on the Post Office, Telegraph, and Observatory Departments, by Charles Todd, C.M.G., F.R.A.S., Adelaide, 1896, p. 194.
  16. Private Communication from H. B. Curlewis. Esq., Acting Government Astronomer of Western Australia.
  17. John Tebbutt. History and Description of Mr. Tebbutt’s Observatory, Windsor, New South Wales. (Sydney. 1887.)
  18. John Tebbutt. Astronomical Memoirs (Sydney. 1908.)
  19. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol.25, p.197.
  20. Astronomische Nachrichten. Vol. 64, p. 109.
  21. Observations of the Transit of Venus, 9th December, 1874, made at Stations in New South Wales. (H. C. Russell.) Sydney. 1892.)
  22. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol.44, p.310.
  23. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol.20, p.77.
  24. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol.27, p.299.
  25. Astronomical and Meteorological Observations made at the Sydney Observatory in the year 1860 by W. Scott, M.A. (Sydney. 1861.)
  26. R. L. J, Ellery, C. Todd, and H. C. Russell. Report on the Telegraphic Determination of Australian Longitudes via Singapore, Banjoewangie, and Port Darwin. (Melbourne. 1886.)
  27. Victoria. Third Report of the Board of Visitors to the Observatory, with the Annual Report of the Government Astronomer. (Melbourne. 1863.)
  28. South Australia. Observatory and Telegraphs. Annual Report by Charles Todd, Esq. 1867. (Adelaide. 1868.)
  29. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Vol.12, p.225.
  30. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Vol.14, p.20.
  31. Astronomische Nachrichten, Nos. 2635-2636 (Dr. Auwers).
  32. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol.48.
  33. W. E. Cooke. Report on the Latitude and Longitude of the Perth Observatory. Western Australia. (Official Report to the Under-Secretary. 21st September, 1899.)
  34. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol.62, p.286.
  35. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. Vol. 14. Melbourne Meeting, 1913. Section A. P. Baracchi, Australian Longitudes.
  36. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. Vol. 6. Brisbane Meeting, 1895. Section A. P. Baracchi—On the most Probable Value and Error of Australian Longitudes, including that of the Boundary Lines of South Australia with Victoria and New South Wales.
  37. Veroffentlichun dos Konigl. Preuszis-hcn Geodatischcn Institutes. Neue Folge, No. 15.
  38. Astronomische Nachrichten. No. 3993-94. Albrecht.
  39. Dr. Otto Klotz. Transpacific Longitudes between Canada and Australia and New Zealand executed during the years 1903&minus1904. (Appendix 3. Report of the Chief Astronomer of Canada for 1905). (Ottawa. 1907.)
  40. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. Vol. 7. Sydney Meeting, 1898. Section A, p.176. T. K. Furbor—The Trigonometrical Survey of New South Wales, with mention of Similar Surveys in other Colonies.
  41. Commonwealth of Australia. Department of Homo Affairs. Conference of the Director of Commonwealth Lands and Surveys, the Surveyor-General and the Government Astronomer of New Zealand, and the Surveyors-General of the States of the Commonwealth of Australia. Melbourne, 20th to 25th May, 1912. (Melbourne. 1912.) [386]
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