METEoilOLOaWAL OBSER VA TIONS. 



FiioM December Ist to 15th, 1878. 

 Keconlod daily at Ilobart Town, Tasmania, at lOh. 33iii. 

 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. 



Pi'ivate Observatory, Hobart Town. 



Lat. 42 52' 13" S. Long. 9h. 49m. 29 -28. E. 



(Rejistered for the. R)'j%l Societ//, Tasmctnia. ) 



130-020 



2 29 -620 



?. 29-412 



29-. 00 



58-0 14-5 S3 i S 



! ' i 



59-0 15 S3 ! SE 

 50-0 10-0 SS NW 



I 



54-0 12 88 ;S\V 



29-920 55-0 13 72 SW 



! ' ^ f 



29 920' 54-0 12-0 SS S 



i ' I i 



29-7-20' (jO-0 15-0 ' 83 I SE 



! ! i 



29-G-20 050 18-0 83 SE 



t ' ' 



29-7101 63o' 17 5; 83 NW 



29-920: 61-0 17 83 NW 



29 945 

 29-975 

 13: 29 812 



I 



14i 29-510 

 15! 29-359 



-0 16 73 W 



61-0 160, 88 



I 



6S-0 20-0: 78 

 81 27-0, 76 ■ N 

 61 20-5, 83 KN 



10 I K I -0 



. ' -0 -0 



5-5 K -0 



i 



5 K -20 



I I 



K ; -02 



10 



K 



K 



7 IMK 



I 



7 K 

 KS 

 •0 



4 K 



Sky cloudy 



Moon and 

 starlight 



Squal.moon, 

 stars 



Moon, stars, 

 and cloud 



Moon and 

 stars 



cloud 

 covered sky 



Cloud, sky 

 covered 



Mottled K, 

 sky covered 



Moonlight 



Moon, cl'uds 

 and stars 



4 ^ K i -0 



Moon, cl'uds 

 and stais 



Starli<?ht 



Starlight, 

 brilliant 



Hot wind, 

 str'g S. light 

 r lightning 

 S. light 



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

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

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

 to make the Avind and cloud records more than ;vp- 

 proximately correct. The rainfall is measuri-d at 

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



