METJUUB OLOGICAL OBSEE VA TIONS. 



From 1st to 15th February, 1879. 

 Recorded daily at Hobart Town, Tasmania, at lOli. 33nj. 

 p.m., simaltaneously witii registration made at 7h. 35m. 

 a.m., at W^ashington, United States, in pursuance of a pro- 

 position of the late Vienna Congress, for a system of Inter- 

 national Synchronous Observations. 



Private Ob.3ervatory, Hobart Town. 



Lat. 42 52' 13" S. Long. 9h. 49m. 29-23. E. 



(Registetxd for the Royal Societt/, Tasmania. ) 



4IJ 



5 H 



OQ 



til 



Cloud. 



Weather. 



1 29-9^0 55 



29-945 

 29-345 

 29740 

 29-820 

 29-910 

 29 945 



30-142 

 29.519 

 29-920 



i 



12, 29-970 

 13 29-740 

 14' 29-920 



i 



15 30045 



In. 



Stars Faint 



Calm and 

 Cloudy 



Moon Over- 

 cast. 



! Cloudy, 

 I Sultry 



Moon Over- 

 ! cast 



Hazy, Moon 



I Ked 



Cloud, sky 

 covered 



•02 Moonlight 



Moon, Sky 

 Hazy 



Calm and 

 Cloudy 



Cloud, sky 

 covered 



-25 Calm and 

 Cloudy 



1 Calm and 

 Cloudy 



Starlight 



01 Cloud, sky 

 { covered 



Francis Abbott, F.E.A.S., etc., Observer. 

 N.B.— The time of registration at Hobart Town, 

 lOh. 33m. p.m., being after dark, renders it impossible 

 to make the wind and cloud records ro.ore than ap- 

 proximately correct. The rainfall is measvu-ed afc 

 7h. 30m. a.m. local tiii'.e. 



