METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



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From 1st to the 16th October, 1879. 



Recorded daily at Hobart Town, Tasmania, at lOh. S3in. 

 p.m., simultaneously with registration made at 7h. SSiu. 

 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. 49in. 29 -28. E. 



(Registered for the Royal Society, Tasmania. ) 



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 '^S,^- ^monieters. 



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30 -025 1 52-0: 25-0 69 NW 



29-9251 55 13 87 NW 



Weather. 



30125 



29-958 



29-725 

 29-648 



55 0, 130 86, SE 



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50 10 74^ S 



590|l5-0 77 NW 



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59-0' 15 67 NW 



29-975| 50-Oi lO'O 75 SE 



29-825' 52-0 110 74 S 



29-645 54-0 12-0 7(! S 



29-500 50-0 10 81 W 



29-926 430, 6-0 79 S 



30 038 52 0' 11-0 82 SE 



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30-176| 560 14-5 76^ SE 



30045i 52-o|llO 70 SE 



29-9641 55-0 15 81 NW 

 29-746' 71-0,21-5; 78 SE 



In., 



•52 10 K -oaCumula 



' I covering the 

 Moon 



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26 7 i K I -Oil Moon cloud- 



I I ed 

 I I 

 26 7 j K ; — jDo. do. 



49 5 i K ' — I Stars and 

 i Moon 



26 4 : K I — Dark Clouds 

 j ] and Stars 



26 4 ; K I — .Stars in 

 I Zenith 



52 10 N j -02. Squally 



26 7 K -25 Few faint 

 Stars 



•26 7 K 01 Dark and 



I 1 Cloudy 



•62 10 I N : — Rain 



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•52 4 ! K I -25 Rain, Stars 

 i in Zenith 



•52 4 K ' •SB Starlight 



-26 4 K 10 Frosty 



•26 



•52 10 KN 

 •0 



Starlight, 

 Frosry 



,Sky cloudy 



10 KN - [Cloudy and 

 ' sultry 



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

 N.B. — The time of registration at Hobait Towt!, 

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

 to make the \vind and cloud records more than ap- 

 proximately correct. The rainfall is measui'ed at 

 7n. 30m. a.m. local tiine. 



