METjE^ >EOLOaiCAL OBSERVATIONS. 



Fkom September 16 to September 30, 1878. 

 Kecordecl daily at Hobart Town, Tasmania, at lOh. 33ni. 

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

 a.m., at ^N'ashington, 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.^ 



Wind. ! Cloud. 





Weather. 



In. 



■01 



-04 



-83 



-02 



-48 



Clear to 

 south 



Starlight, 

 brilliant 



Starlight 



Stars in the 

 Zenith 



Rain and 

 wind strong 



Squally all 

 day 



Stars in the 

 Zenith 



Stars after 

 rain 



Stars, over- 

 cast 



-01 Cloud, sky 

 covered 



-40 Sky squally 



•03 Starlight 



-01 



Large K 

 Starlight 



Cloud, sky 

 covered 



Fran^cis Abbott, F.R.A.S., etc., Observer, 

 N.B. — The time of reg-istration at Hol^ait Tcw;i, 

 lOh. 33m. p.m., being after ditrk, renders it impossible 

 to make the wind and cloud records more than ap- 

 ])roximateiy correct. The rainfall is measiu"ed afc 

 71i. 30m. a.m. local tiii'.e. 



