METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



From the 1st to the 15th JNIay, 1877, inclusive. 



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

 p.m., simultaneously with registration made at 7h. 35m. 

 a.m., at M'asliington, United States, in pursuance of a pro- 

 position of the late Vienna Congress, for a system of Inter- 

 national Synchronous Observations. 



Private Observatory, Hobart To-\vii. 



Lat. 42° 52' 13" S. Long. 9h. 49m. 29 '28. E. 



(Registered for the Royal 'Society, Tasmania. ) 



Weather. 



3) -320 

 30 -220 

 30 130 

 30105 

 29-735 

 29-349 

 29-610 

 29-725 

 29-820 

 33-045 

 30110 

 30-010 

 29-815 

 29-635 

 29-720 



62-0 lG-5 j 93 S 

 62 16-5 8-1 SE 

 65-0 18-5 94 



I ; 



6]-5 17-5 88 



62-0 16-5 94 — 



I I 



61-0 13-0 S8N\y 



55-5 13-0 93 W 



i 



i 

 60-0 15-5 71 NW 



63-0 17-0 

 58-0 14-5 

 56-5 13-5 

 57-0 14 



63-0 15-5 



I 



1 



620 16-5 



I 

 66-0 19-0 



80 



NW, 



86, - : 



94 



•04 



Cloud, sky 

 covered 



Clouds, dif. 

 density 



Ditto, sky 

 covered 



Stars, hazy 



Cloudy with 

 rain 



Ditto, sky 

 covered 



Few stars, 

 faint 



Stars and 

 clouds 



Cloudy and 

 dark 



Ditto ditto 



Ditto ditto 



Stars and 

 cloud 



Ditto ditto 

 Very dark 



Stars faint, 

 and cloud 



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

 N.B.— The time of registration at Hobart Town, 

 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 measured at 

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



