METEOROL OGICAL OBSE RVA Tl ONS. 

 From 16th to the 31st December, 1879. 



Recorded daily at ELobart 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- 

 national Synchronous Observations. 



Private Observatory, Hobart Town. 



Lat. 42° 52' 13" S. Long. 9h. 49m. 29'2s. E. 



(Registered for the Royal Society, Tasmania. ) 



WeatJier. 



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

 N.B. — The time of registration at Hobai-t To-wn, 

 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 measm'ed at 

 Til. 30m. a.m. local time. 



