METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



From 17th to the 31st August, 1879. 



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

 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. ) 



JVeailier. 



29-210 49- 

 30 139 52- 



30164 50- 10- 



30 075 47- 



30-218 52- 



30-245 52- 



30-027 51- 



29-978 52- 



3004S 50- 



I 

 30245 53- 



1 

 30-242 49- 



i 

 29-945 53- 



29-8 



7s! 54- I 



30-145 49- 

 30-213 52- 



Cloud and 

 Eain 



Stars bril- 

 iant at the 

 zenith. Cloud 

 at horizon 

 Cloud, Sky 

 covered 



Stars brill'nt 

 in the zenith 



Cloud, Sky 

 Covered 



Cloud, Sky 

 covered 



Stars faint 



Moon and 

 Starlight 



Moon, Cloud 

 and Star 



Small Raia 



Moon, Star, 

 and Cloud 



Moon and 

 Cloud 



Light Eain 



iMoon, Cloud 



•01 Sky thick 

 and hazy 



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

 N.B. — The tims 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 measvu'ed at 

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



