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A VERY important paper has been issued recently by the Government printer of Adelaide, South Australia.1 It is a report of an Inter-State Astronomical and Meteorological Conference, convened in May last, in view of the possible transfer of the observatory departments to the Federal Government as provided for in the Commonwealth Constitution Act. The official directors of the observatory departments of the several States were invited, and there were present Sir Charles Todd, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. (Government astronomer for South Australia), who was called to the chair, Mr. H. A. Lenehan (acting Government astronomer for New South Wales), Mr. W. E. Cooke (Government astronomer for Western Australia), Mr. P. Baracchi (Government astronomer for Victoria), Mr. A. A. Spowers (chief surveyor for Queensland), and Mr. H. C. Kingsmill (Government meteorologist for Tasmania).
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S., W. Astronomy and Meteorology in Australia . Nature 73, 8 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073008a0
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