62 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 79 



PORT MORESBY, BRITISH NEW GUINEA 



Lat. 9° 29' S. Long. 147° 9' E. 

 Pressure, 



Authorities: 



1 89 1 to 1895. Supplements to the l>ritish New Guinea Gov- 

 ernment Gazette. 

 1902 July to 1920. British New Guinea Government 

 Gazettes. 

 Site: The height of the barometer above Mean Sea Level was : 



1891 January to 1895 September 51 ft. 



1895 October to December 39 ft. 



1902 July to 1920 126 ft. 



All values have been reduced to Mean Sea Level by the addi- 

 tion of the following corrections : 



1891 January to 1895 September. +-053 in. 



1895 October to December + .040 in. 



The values given in the British New Guinea Government 

 Gazettes for 1902 July to 1920 are already ^educed 

 to Mean Sea Level. 

 Instruments: 



1 89 1 to 1895. Marine Barometer no. C. 715. Adie, London. 



Index error correction — .002 in. 

 No information is available from 1902 but it is presumed 

 that the necessary corrections have been applied. 

 Hours: The hour of observation has been 9'^ throughout. 

 Notes: All values are reduced to normal gravity (Lat. 45°) by 

 applying a correction of — .073 inch. 

 Temperature. 



Authorities: As for Pressure. 

 Site: As for Pressure. 



Observations : The standard adojited is the mean of the mean 

 daily maximum and mean daily minimum. These 

 figures were unreliable in certain months and the 

 values in italics liave been computed from the 9'\ 

 dry bulb observations by means of the following 

 corrections obtained from those records which ap- 

 peared to be correct : 



Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June 

 9'' to 4(M+m)°F. -I.I -0.8 -1.0 -1.3 -1.3 -1.2 



July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. 

 — i.o —1.3 —1.8 —2.2 —2.3 —1.8 



