METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



From 16th to the 30th April, 1879. 

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

 p.m., simultaneously with re^stration made at 7h. 55m 

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

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

 national S3'nchronous Observations. 



Private Observatory, Hobart Town. 



Lat. 42 52^ 13" S. Long. 9h. 49m. 29-28. B. 



(RegisUred for the Royal Society, Tasmania. ) 



Wealhtr. 



In. I 

 -01 Fine, cloudy 



Fine and 

 clear 



Fine 



Calm and 

 cloudy 



-02 Fine and 

 I clear 



Ditto 



Clear sky, 

 sultry 



Clear 



Kain 



•03 Cloud and 

 I haze 



01, Thick and 

 cloudy, light 

 I rain 

 03 I Cloudy 



Ditto, strong 

 wind 



40 Eain 



Ditto 



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 wind and cloud records more than ap- 

 proximately correct. The rainfall is meapui-ed at 

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



