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METEOEOLOGY FOR MAT, 1864. 

 Private Observatory, Hobart Town. 



The means in all 

 column, and not from 



are taken from the sums of each 

 the maximum and minimum. 



Time of leafing, floioering, and fruiting, of a few standard pUmts, in the 

 Royal Sociefy's Gardens, during May, 1864 : — 



7th. First Medlar ripe. 

 10th. Caronilla glanca commencing to flower. 

 20th. Ailanthus trees bare of leaves. 

 25th. Diasma alba commencing to flower. 

 28th. Photima serrulata commencing to flower. 

 30th. Spircea prunifolia commencing to flower. 



ANALYSIS OF THE OBSERVATORY RECORDS FOR MAY, 1864 ; 

 IN CONJUNCTION WITH THOSE OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, &C. By 



E. SWARBRECK HaLL. 



In many respects the weather this month was a great improvement upon 

 that of April, and the reduction of infantile mortality thereby effected, was 

 considerable ; on the other hand, some of the meteorological phenomena were 

 very inimical to invalids, and the deaths of adults consequently much more 

 numerous ; so that the total mortalitywas still greatly above the May average 

 of the previous seven years. 



Atmosplieric pressure mean was, 30.002 inches, which is + "174 above the 20 

 years' standard average for this month. This makes now three months in suc- 

 cession, with a mean for the month, above thirty inches — an event without 

 parallel in the last twenty three years. The Mays of only 1857 and 1852, equalled 



