METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



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



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

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

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

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

 national Synchronous Observations. 



Private Observatory, Hobart Town. 



Lat. 42° 52' 13" S. Long. 9h. 49in. 29 '23. E. 



(Registered for the Royal Society, Tasmania. ) 



^ i: 



"^ Weather. 



In. , 



•0 Starlight 



I 

 •01 Cloud, sky 

 covered 



Starlight 

 brilliant 



Starlight 

 Starlight 



"01 Stars and 

 I clond 



.0 Cloudy, a 



j few stars 



•0 Cloud, sky 

 covered 



•01 Starlight 

 I brilliant 



•0 Starlight 

 •0 Ditto 



■Q Cloudy and 

 calm 



■0 Cloud, sky 

 j covered 



-0 Heavy de- 

 tached R 



Wind, star, 

 and rain 



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

 J^'^-B.— The time of registration at Hobart Towr, 

 lOh. 33in. 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 

 7n. 30m. a.m. local time. 



