METH.OBOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



From 17th to the 31st May, 1879. 



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

 p.m., simultaneously with registration made at 71i. 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 Ob-servatory, Hobart Town. 



Lat. 42 52' 13" S. Long. 9h. 49m. 29 -25. E. 



(Blistered for the Royal Society^ Tasmania. ) 



Weather. 



30-020 51-0 



I 



29 745 55 

 29-625 56-0 



29-675 55-0 



I 

 29-456 54-0 



29-452 56-0 



i 



29 •7-20 62-0 



29-545 48-0 

 29-720 43 



29-450 43-0 



i 

 29-825 41-0 



29-920 52-0 



! 



30-025 52-0 



I 



30 048 50-0 

 30 026 44 



Continuous 

 Small Eain 



Cloud Sky 

 Covered 



Calm and 

 Cloudy 



Cloudy 



Few faint 

 stars only 



Cloud Sky 

 Covered 



Sky Clouded 



Starlight 

 Sky Cloudy 

 Sky Cloudy 



-04 Sky Covered 



-01 



•27 



Light rain 

 all night 



Sky Cloudy 



Cloud Sky 

 Covered 



Star and 

 Moonlight 



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

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

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

 to make the wind and cloud records more than ap- 

 proximately correct. The rainfall is measured afc 

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



