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before that Report could be considered by the Legislature, under
the necessity of resigning in consequence of their defeat on their
Militia Bill: and now not a year afterwards a similar defeat of
the Sandfield Macdonald Sicotte, and the consequent prorogation,
and dissolution of Parliament following, put a stop to any further
action in the direction of a wise and equitable settlement of the
matter relating to Universities brought under its notice in the Report
of the Commission.
The Astronomical Lectures in the City Hall, and in
the Observatory building, were continued this year. A portable
Transit, by Simms, purchased by subscriptions from the citizens
of Kingston was added to the instruments in the Observatory,
and the Trustees of the College, acting on the suggestion of the
Revd Dr. Romanes, then resident in London, authorized the Di-
rector of the Observatory, who had been in communication with
him on the subject, to make an application to the President
and Council of the Royal Astronomical Society for the loan
of the Beaufoy Transit for a season.
Two lots (Nos. 36 and 37 in Section A.) were pur-
chased for the College in Cataraqui cemetery in the autumn
of 1862, the cost being $62, and the Medical Faculty
were requested to remove the remains of subjects thither for burial.

1862-63

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