METBOEOLOGICAL OBSERVA TIOJS'S. 



From 1st to the 15th December, 1879. 



Recorded daily at Hobart Town, Tasmania, at lUh. 33m. 

 p.m., jiraultaneously 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 -2^. E. 



(Rcglsteaxd for the Royal Society, Tasmania. ) 



^1 i Ther- 

 '*~»S^- monieters. 



•a s^ S I 



'J h ^ ; '^ 



'i=: -a 



IVealher. 



In. 



•15 Heavy cloud, 

 and moon 



•03 



Dark con- 

 glomerated 

 clouds 



Stars in the 

 Zenith 



•lOj V^ery dark 



•14 Dark and 



I Cloudy 



•05 Stars in the 

 I Zenith 



•0 j Cloud, sky 

 covered 



22 Cloud and 

 I squall 



•06 Cloud, sky 

 j covered 



•02 Cloudy and 

 hazy 



•04 Faint stars 

 ; in Zenith 



•01 Stars at 

 Zenith 



I 

 •02 Cloud, sky 



. covered 



Stars at 

 Zenith 



.Cloud and 



j hazy, stars 



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

 ^_N.B.— The time of registration at Hobart To-wn, 

 iOh. S3m. p.m., being after dark, renders it impossible 

 to make the wind and cloud records more than ap- 

 proximately correct. The rainfall is measuj-ed at 

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



