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== Return to Australia ==
[[FileDatoteka:Jane Dunlop, ca. 1853 oil portrait by Joseph Backler a2449001h.jpg|thumb|right|Jane Dunlop]]
In April 1831, Dunlop was appointed superintendent of the Government observatory at [[Parramatta, New South Wales|Parramatta]]. He was selected mainly from his good knowledge of Colony and the observatory site, but the real reason for his selection was more because even though such an astronomical position was formally advertised, nobody applied for the astronomical tenure. Here he was to succeed Rümker with the reasonable good salary of £300 a year. He arrived at Sydney on 6 November 1831 and found the observatory in a deplorable condition; rain had entered the building, roofing plaster had fallen down, and many important records were destroyed. Dunlop succeeded in getting the building repaired and started on his work with energy, but around 1835 his health began to fail; he had no assistant, and the building, having been attacked by white ants, fell gradually into decay. In August 1847, he resigned his position, and went to live on his farm on Brisbane Waters, an arm of Broken Bay. He died on 22 September 1848. In 1816 Dunlop married his cousin Jean Service, who survived him. In addition to the medal of the [[Royal Astronomical Society]] Dunlop was awarded medals for his work by the King of Denmark in 1833, and the [[Institut de France|Institut Royal de France]] in 1835. He was elected a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] in 1832. Papers on, and references to, the work of Dunlop will be found in the ''Monthly Notices'' of the Royal Astronomical Society, in the ''Edinburgh Journal of Science'', and in the ''Transactions'' of the Royal Society between the years 1823 and 1839.