METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, 



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ii'KOM THE 1st to THE 15tH MaIIOH, 1878, INCLUSIVE. 

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

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

 a.m., at Washington, United States, in pursuance of a pro- 

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

 national tij'nchronous Observations. 



Private Observatory, Hobart Town. 



Lat. 42" 52' 13" S. Long. Oh. 49m. 29-2.^. E. 



(Registered for the Rvjal Sjciet//, Tasmania. ) 



Ther- 



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ir 





Wlad. Cloud. 



is 



i IS 



30-020 

 29725 

 33-125 

 29-940 

 30-120 

 30-140 

 29-920 

 29-620 

 29-920 

 29 940 

 29-720 

 29-920 

 29 720 

 29-820 

 29-950 



74 23 



i 



79-0 28 



72 22 



74-5 23 5 



640 17-5 



630 19-5 



(yd- 5, 20-5 



70-0 

 07-0 

 70-0 

 71-5 

 72-5 

 74-0 

 71-0 

 67-0 



1-0 

 19-5 

 21-0 



1-5 

 22-5 

 •23 

 21-5 

 19 



Weather. 



-0 Stars in the 

 zenith 

 I 

 •0 Cloud, sky 

 i covered 

 I 

 •0 Cloud and 

 rain 



•G Ditto sky 

 I covered 



•0 Starlight 

 •0 Stars faint 



•0 Few stars 

 only 



•0 Cloud, sky 

 I covered 



•0 Stars few 

 j and faint 



•0 Stars and 

 I cloudy 



-0 Calm and 

 1 cloudy 



-0 Few stars 

 j only 



•0 Cloudy, few 

 I stars 



•0 Cloudy 



Cloudy, sky 

 "0 covered 



FiiANCis ABBorr, F.R.A.S., etc., Observer. 

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

 lOii. 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. 



