METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



From 16th to the 29th February, 1880. 



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

 p.m., simultaneously with registration made at 7h. 33m. 

 a.m., at AVashington, 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. ) 



Weather. 



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Cloud, sky 

 covered 



Starlight 

 Stars faint 



Moon <k stars 

 faint 



Calm, moon 

 and stars 



Calm, and 

 cloudy 



Cloud, sky 

 covered 



Cloud, sky 

 covered 



Moon and 

 starlight 



Sky cloudy 



Sky cloudy 



Hea-vy rain 



Cold S.E. 

 wind 



Squall and 

 rain 



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



-A?'?o~'^^ *™® ^^ registration at Hobart Town, 

 xOh. 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 

 ih. 30m. a.m. local time. 



