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Trouvelot Tebbutt received a Paris Exposition Silver Medal in 1867 in recognition of his paper
On the Progress and Present State of Astronomical Science in New South Wales. Between 1868 and 1902 he made 396 lunar
occultation observations. The year after his death, his son delivered John Tebbutt's working library and manuscripts to the State Library of New South Wales. The
John Tebbutt Memorial Collection is made up of 3,676 printed volumes, 117 volumes of manuscripts and 235 pamphlets. He was commemorated on the reverse side of the
Australian one hundred-dollar note, in circulation 1984 until 1996 when it was replaced by a portrait of Sir
John Monash. ==References==