METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, 



From the 16th to the 31st July, 1878, 10-30 p.m. 



Kecorded 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. 29-23. E. 



(Registered for the Royal Society, Tasmania. ) 



Weather. 



In. ( 

 -Oj Cloud cover- 

 ed 



-O.Clear moon- 

 light 



•8 Cloudy co- 

 I vered 



-15 Small rain 



-01 Cloudy 



•4^0. and rain 



-1 Sky cloudy 



•O' Cloudy 



•3 Stars round 

 I zenith 



•02 Starlight 

 2in. Rain all day 

 •20 Steady rain 



•3 Stars in ze- 

 nith 



'01 Stars faint 



•0 Stars in ze- 



I nith 



-01 Starlight 



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

 N.B. — The time of reg-istration 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 measui*ed at 

 7h. 30m. a.m. local time. 



