METEOROLOGY EOE FEBRUARY, 1876. 

 Private Observatory, Hobart Town. 



Latitude 42* 62" 13" S ; Longitude Oh. 49m. 29,-2a, E. 

 (Registered for the Royal Society of Taamania.) 



The Hettorological form brought into use i 

 01 187C differs in some respecU from the fori 

 wen adapted with the view of assimilating t 

 Kcords more closely with thof "* "*'*' 

 America, etc , in order to co-op 

 Mtional Meteorology. Iteadlngs 



tof Europe. 



a aU cases 1 

 "Wlrrepiers, not from the 

 ^ The direction of the ■ ■ 

 92 feet above 



the beginning 

 r one. It has . 

 Hobart Town | 

 IS in Europe, I 

 system of Inter- ; 



generoUy used 



in aU cases taken from the sums of the tv»o ' 

 lot from the maximum and minimum. i 



Height "0793'"-?'---''^^ •' registered - 

 InuB foot. , 



Tli8 relative quantity of rain that feU under the different 

 Th li r*8*st€red each morning at 7 30 am. 

 Ib.Siff "^'^■'^y* years* aWndard Ubles are used for obtaining 

 m dWIeronce from average 



FR.1NCIS ABBOTT, F.E.A.S., etc. 



Time of leafing, flowering, and fruiting of a few standard St^^V,'^ 

 1876^ Ihc Royal Society's Garden during February, ' q Jone mea 



.?.'}''~Kerry Pippin Apple commencing to ripen. | Wind forri 



«^ -iVindaor ^ear ditto ditto ' Ditto ' hori 



i5lh.-Bon Chretien Pear ditto ditto. 

 =™i.— Green Gage Plum ditto ditto. 



29th. —Sycamore ditto ditto. 



Results of observation taken at New Norfolk February, 

 1$7(], in accordance with new forms, and registered afi 

 7 30 am. and 4 30 p m. :— 

 Barometer, mean of 2 daily readings, corrected and rcdnceJ, 

 29-flOUn. 



do in shade, 62'OOdeg. F. 



of 2 ditto, SOSOdeg. 



Thermometer, 



Ditto, ditto, 16-6deg. Centigrade. 



Terrestrial radiatio 



2 ditto. 07. 

 nof 



temperature, I32'SS(IeeL. 

 minimum temperaton^ 



of 2 doily registers, 6*1 

 , !dif ■ - - "■ 

 in lbs. per ai 



1 ditto, 2 ditto ditto, i 



