METBOEOLOGIOAL OBSERVATIONS. 



Fkom 1st to the 15th March, 1879. 



Recorded daily at Hobart Town, Tasmania, at lOh. 33m. 

 p.m., simultaneously with registration made at 7h. 35m. 

 a.m., at Washington, United States, in pursuance of a pro- 

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

 national Synchronous Observations. 



Private Observatory, Hobart Town. 



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



(Blistered for the Royal Society, Tasmania. ) 



"^ Weather. 



29.975 

 30 050 

 29-979 



53-0 111 -5' 88 NW 



I I 



57-0 



56-0 



29-910 58-0 



14-01 82 



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130; 83 



j 



15 0, 78 



•748 65 |18-0j 77 



6 29 -741 '57 14 74 



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sw 



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7 1 29-920i59 ,15-0 83| S 



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29-910 53 

 29-9(55'59-0 

 29.987 68-0 

 30 045 00 

 30 045 GOO 



29-765 

 29.320 



59-0 

 62-0 

 53-0 



14-5 88 NW 



I I i 



15 78, NW 



I ! 



I 



K I 7 

 K i 10 



20 I 83 

 16 0; 83 

 16-0 j 84 

 15-0 100 



W -521 K 



16-5 

 12-0 



94 



SE I 



KB I 



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sw 



•26 K 10 



94 N I 



I I 



K 



KN 

 KN 

 K 



In. 



•01 



01 



Star and 

 Clouds 



Sky Cloudy 

 Sky Cloudy 



Moon and 

 Stars 



Moon and 

 Clouds 



Moon and 

 Stars 



Moon and 

 Starlight 



Moonlight 



Clear Moon- 

 light. 



Moon and 

 Cloud 



Cloud Sky 

 Covered 



Cloud Sky 

 Covered 



Eain thro' 

 night 



1-55 Cloud and 

 rain 



10 Faint Star- 

 light. 



Francis Abbott, F.R.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 Avind and cloud records more than ap- 

 proximately correct. The rainfall is measured at 

 7h. 30m. a.m. local time. 



