METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



From the 16th to the 31st Jan., 1878, inclusive. 



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

 p.m., simultaneously with registration made at 7h. 85m. 

 a.m., at Washington, 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. 40m. 29 '23. E. 



(Registered for the Royal Society, Tasmania. ) 



Weather. 



•01 Moon, star, 

 and cloud 



Cloudy, sky 

 covered 



Moon and 

 cloud 



Large mas- 

 sive clouds 



Cloud, sky- 

 covered 



Cloud, sky- 

 covered 



Sky cloudy 



Star and 

 cloud sky 



Cloud, sky 

 covered 



Cloud and 

 stars 



Very dark 



Very dark 

 Stars faint 



Faint star- 

 light 



Star and 

 cloud 



Stars in the 

 zenith 



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. 



