METEOROLOGY FOR NOVEMBER, 1877. 

 Private Observatory, Hobart Town. 



Latitude 42° 52' 13" S. ; Longitude 9h. 49m. 29.2s. E. 

 (Registered for the Royal Society of Tasmania.) 



I Mean Press. Mean M'n. Tera. Mean. Mean Mean 

 i 29-699 10-70 , 5060 93-72 6755 3G13 



Greatest do. Max. 

 30-193 15-00 



Least do. 

 29-040 



Min. 



6-001 



Max. 



11500 



Max. 



81-00 



Min. Min. Min 

 6.5-50 57-00 29-50 



Max. 



39 -.50 



Mean. 

 -71 



Mean for Month. 



7-00 



Mean Force 

 1-44 lb. 



Prev. Character, 

 K and KN. 



Greatest Force 

 1042 



Tl Tl. Tl. 



2-03 4-92 173-50 



Me'n 



I 5-80 



Least Force. 

 



Prevailing Direction. 



NW \ 



The Meteorological form brought into use at the beginning 

 )f 1876 differs in some respects from the former one. It has 

 'been adopted with the view of assimilating the Hobart Town 

 Tccords more closely with those of stations in Europe, America, 

 letc, in order to co-operate in a system of International 

 IMeteorology. Readings are added from the centigrade ther- 

 jmometer, that being the instrument generally used on the 

 Icontinent of Europe. 



Tlie mean is ia all cases talcen from the sums of the two 

 daily registers, not from the maximum and minimum. 



The direction of the wind is registered from currents at a 

 height of 92 feet above sea level, and its force in lbs. per 

 sfjuare foot. 



The relative quantity of rain that fell under the different 

 winds is registered each morning at 7 '30 a.m. 



The 35 years' standard tables are used for obtaining the 

 ditference from average. 



FRANCIS ABBOTT, F.R.A.S., etc. 



Time of leafing, flowering and fruiting of a few standard 

 plants in the Roval Society's Gardens during the month 

 of November, 1877. 



-^|^-~ Trollop's Victoria Strawberry commencing to ripen. 



;;;°-~Early May Duke Cherry commencing to ripen. 



30th.— Black Mulb3rry (Morics niger) in full flower. 



31st.— Early Red Antwerp Raspberry comramencing to ripen. 



Note.— The double-flowered Pomegranate and Bougain- 

 villea spectabilis which usually commence flowering towards 

 the end of November, have not done so this year. 



F. ABBOTT, JuN., Superintendent. 



Results of observations taken at New Norfolk, November 

 1877, in accordance with new forms, at 7-30 a.m. and 

 4 30 p.m. :— 



Barometer, mean of two daily readings, corrected and 

 reduced, 29-709in. 



Thermometer, mean of 2 ditto, 54-32deg. 



Ditto mean of maximum and minimum in shade, 53-24deg. 



Dew point, mean position of 2 ditto, 42-60deg. 



Elastic force of vapour mean, of 2 ditto •270. 



Humidity of air, mean of 2 ditto, 66. 



Solar intensity, mean of maximum temperature, 130-58deg. 



Terrestrial radiation, mean of minimum temperature, 

 35-S3deg. 



Rainfall, 2-9-2in. 



Evaporation, 4 7^2in., in excess of rainfall l-80in. 



Clouds, mean amount of 2 daily observations, 583. 



Ozone, mean ditto, 2 ditto ditto, 8-54. 



W. E. SHOOBRIDGE, Bushy Park. 



