METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



From the 1st to the 15th April, 1878, Inclusive. 



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

 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 Synchronous Observations. 



Private Observatory, Hobart Town. 



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



( Begistei'ed for the Royal Society, Tasmania. ) 



Weather. 



Fine after 

 rain 



Fine 



SquaUy 



Cloudy 



Clear & calm 



Sultry 



Calm and 

 cloudy 



Fine 

 Sultry 

 Ditto 

 Light rain 

 Fine & clear 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 



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. 



