METJiOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, 



From Ist to the 16th May, 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. 49m. 29 '23. E. 



(Registered for the Royal Society, Tasmania. ) 



Weallier. 



29-946 50-0 

 29-945 4C0 



30-148 



4 3C-22 



43-0 

 48-0 

 42-0 

 40-0 



30-125 

 30-020 

 29-985:47 -5 

 30-168 53-0 



I 



9j 3012.V48 

 10' 30-025 48 



11' 29-875 



I 



12 29-948 



30.065 



50-0 

 52 

 53-0 



30 143 50 

 30-228 50 

 30-268 60 



In. 



\i Cloud Sky 

 Covered 



07 Cloud Sky 

 ^ Covered 



01 Faint Moon 



•08 Thick and 

 I hazy 



05 Moonlight 



•01 Moon and 

 Starlight 



Eain 



Moon and 

 Star 



Moonlight 

 Moonlight 



Few stars 

 only 



Sky Cloudy 

 •02 Sky Cloudy 



•04 Cloud Sky 

 j Covered 



09 Small Rain 



•12 Cloud Sky 

 I Covered 



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 measm-ed at 

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



