METEOliOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



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From September 1 to September 15, 1878. 

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

 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- 

 n*tioiial Synchronous Observations. 



Private Observatory, Hobart Town. 



Lat. 42 52' 13" S. Long. 9Li. 49m. 29 -2.?. E. 



(Roistered for the Royal Society, Tasmania. ) 



Weather. 



SV»' 



w 



NV/ 



w 



sw 



NW 



SE 

 N 



78 ; N 



! 



82 \ SE 



i 



82 I S 



! 



83 |NW 



77 NW 



i 

 88 INW 



72 NAV 



' I In. 

 6 K I -11 



-52 



•26 6 K 



5-21 

 -26 



-20 

 -20 



10 KN 

 7-5 KS 



Eain abated 



-5 Moon, star 

 I and cloud 



•36 Rain and 

 I haze 



■01 Moon and 

 j starlight 



-0 Sky hazy 



10-0 K -0 Cloud, sky 

 I covered 



-0 10-0 KN I -0 Cloud, sky 

 i covered 



10 K 



10 I K 



i 



7 K 



•0 Cloud, sky 

 ; covered 

 I 



•0 Calm and 

 j cloudy 



-31 Moonlight 



10 i K I -02: Cloudy 

 1 i moon 



8 : K 



! 

 10 } K 



7 K 



i 



7 !kn 



j 



-1 Moonlight 



•0 Cloud, sky 

 I covered 



Moon, star 

 I and cloud 



-0 Stars to ths 

 I south 



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

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

 lOh. 33m. p.m., being- after dark, renders it impos.sible 

 to make the wind and cloud records more than aj*- 

 proximately correct. The rainfall is measured afc 

 7h. 30m. a.m. loca,l tiir^e. 



