METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



From 1st to the 16th August, 1879. 



Eecorded 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- 

 Dational Synchronous Observations. 



Private Observatory, Hobart Town. 



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



(Registered for the Royal Society, Tasmania. ) 





fell 



o sr.2 ' 



Cloud. 



Weather. 



In. 



•01 Moon, Star 

 and Cloud 



I 



•01 Eain and 

 j Cloud 



•63 Showery 



•28 Rain and 

 I Snow 



■02 Hazy, moon- 

 I light 



•0 Moon and 

 j Starlight 



•0 Cloud, Sky 

 I Covered 



•06 Do., Rain, 

 I dark 



•01 ! Cloud, Sky 

 I covered 



•O: Cloud, Sky 

 j covered 



•45 Cloud and 

 Rain 



Rain and 

 Cloud 



•01 j Cloud, Sky 

 I covered 

 I 



-02 1 Cloudy, Sky 

 j covered 



•Oj Horizon 

 I cl'dy, zenith 

 I brilliant 

 •20 1 Rain 



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

 N.B. — The time of registration at Hobai-t 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 measvu'ed at 

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



