METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



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From October 16 to October 31, 1878. 

 Eecorded 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. 



(Registered for the Royal Society, Tasimmia. ) 



Weather. 



f 'P-c 



16 29-720 51-0 165 81 



17 



29-640 



50-0 

 50-0 

 55-0 



57-0 



53 



51-0 



52-0 



48-0 



46-0 



42-0 



40 



57-0 



55 

 55-0 

 54-0 



10-0 7 



10-0 

 13-0 

 13-5 

 12-0 



77 



16-0 88 



11-0 77 



9-0 82 



80, 75 



5-5, 87 



9 0' 76 



14-0 S8 



130 83 

 13 73 



12-5 77 



W 

 NW 



N 

 NW 



N 

 NW 



mv 

 w 



sw 

 sw 



SE 



s 



NW 



SW 

 NW 



s 



10 KN 



In. I 



•25 Cloud, sky 

 covered 



-02 Starlight 



N 



K 



N 



-0 



-0 



-0 



-0 



K 



KN 



•0 

 K 

 KN 



Faint Star- 

 light 



Do. do. 



Cloud, sky 

 covered 



Starlight 



Cloud, sky 

 covered 



Starlight 



Faint Star- 

 light 



Starlight 



03 Faint Star- 

 light 



Do. do. 

 Sky cloudy 



Starlight 



Moon, Star, 



and cloud 



Cloudy, sky 



covered 



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 afc 

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



