METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



From August 16 to August 31, 1878. 



Recorded daily at Hobart Town, Tasmania, at lOh. SSna. 

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

 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. 91i. 49m. 29 -23. E. 



(Blistered for the. Royal Society, Tasmania. ) 



Weather. 



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

 N.B. — The time of registration at Hobart To-vvn, 

 lOh. 33ra. p.m., being after dark, renders it impossible 

 to make the mnd and cloud records more than ap- 

 proximately correct. The rainfall is measm*ed at 

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



