METEOROLOGICAL OBSEliVATIONfS, 



From December 15th to 31st, 1878. 

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

 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. 



( lleijlsteved for the Roijcd Society, Tasmania. ) 



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Wcaiher. 



In. 

 •0 Starlight, 

 ' brilliant 



•76 Starlight 



i 

 I 



•01 Starlight 



•02 Stars in the 

 zenith 



•O'Starlight 



-06 Cloud, sky 

 ; covered 



01. Do. Do. 



•01 Squally, 

 starlight 



07 Rain, sky 

 covered 



■05 Set rain 



•45 Cloud, sky 

 covered 



•0 Starlight 



I 

 -06 Cloudy, sky 

 I covered 



•01 Stars in the 

 I zenith 



•OSStars, sky 

 I covered 



•0 Cloudy, sky 

 I covered 



Francis Abbott, F.KA.S., etc., Observer. 

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

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

 to make the Avind and cloud records more than ap- 

 proximately correct. The rainfall is measured at 

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



