METEOEOLOGY FOR JANUARY, 1864. 

 Private Observatory, Hobart Town. 



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The means in all cases are taken from the sums of each 

 column, and not from the maximum and minimum. 



Time of leafing, flowering, and fruiting, of a few 

 standard plants, in the Royal Society's Gardens, for 

 the month : — 



10th — Veronica Angustifolia, in full flower. 



12th— First ripe Apricot (Turkey) gathered. 



15th — Grevillea Robusta, in full floA^er. 



22nd — First ripe Jargonelle Pear, gathered, 



30th — Catalpa Syringifolia, in flower. 



31st — Mulberries commencing to ripen, 



ANALYSIS OF THE OBSERVATORY RECORDS FOR JANUARY, 

 1864, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THOSE OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, 

 &c. By E. Swarbreck Hall. 



In no month of the twelve,during the preceding seven years,has the mortality 

 been so little as in the present month ; and the community so free from those 

 diseases which usually prevail at this season of the year. 



Atmospheric-pressure had a mean 29 '714, all but identical with the 20 years* 

 mean for January. The extreme month's range of the barometer was only 

 •898 of an inch, but it happened within four days. The minimum was 29'259 

 on the 26th, and the maximum 30157 on the 29bh. From tho 23rd to the 29th, 

 within one of half of the whole deaths of the month took place. The 

 greatest movement of the barometer on any day was a fall of — •463 of an 

 inch, on the 15th. There were rises and falls, exceeding one-fifth of an inch, 

 on eleven other days. 



The month's total Wind-force, 146 "26 lbs., was more than double the 

 average for January, being +74.50 Jbs. above it. South-west, West, North- 



