3 
Latitude. 
Mean 
36-6 
Alburv, N.S.Wales, 572 feet 
above sea m 
35-32 
Deniliquin, 410 feet above sea 
41*17 
Wellington, N.Zealand 
38-18 
Melbourne, 40 feet above sea 
Auckland, N. Zealand 
3651 
39-4 
New Plymouth, N.Zealand.. . 
4P50 
Bordeaux ... 
45-28 
Milan 
33-24 
Bathurst, N. S. Wales, 2333 
feet above sea 
34’45 Goulburn, 2129 feet above sea 
New York ... 
39*56 Philadelphia 
30*34 Armidale,N. S. Wales, 3258 
feet above sea ... 
42 - 53 Hobart Town 
41*30 Launceston... 
Bath, England 
50-50 Brussels 
52 - 22 Amsterdam... 
36*13 Cooma, N. S. Wales, 2637 
feet above sea ... 
48’50 Paris 
51*30 London 
48*12 Yienna 
Geneva 
53- 21 Dublin 
52*14 Warsaw 
55’57 Edinburgh... 
55 41 Copenhagen 
46-47 Quebec 
59 20 Stockholm .. 
55*45 Moscow 
Annual 
58-5 
58-2 
57-9 
57-6 
57-1 
56-8 
5648 
55-76 
55-4 
53-8 
53-8 
53-42 
53-40 
53-3 
53-2 
530 
51*80 
51-62 
51*2 
51-08 
5038 
50-54 
49-3 
49.10 
48-56 
47-84 
45-68' 
41- 74 
42- 26 
40-10 
59-56 St 
. Peter 
sburg 
... 
... 38-84 
Cooma. 
Armidale. 
London. 
Hobart T. 
Jan. 
65*0 
Jan. 
64-2 
July 
63 
Jan. 
62-1 
Eeb. 
59-4 
Feb. 
63o 
Aug. 
63 
Feb. 
61-4 
Mar. 
61*4 
Mar. 
59-8 
Sep. 
58 
Mar. 
58-9 
April 
54-2 
Apr. 
53-8 
Oct. 
51 
Apr. 
53-2 
May 
44-2 
May 
47-0 
Nov. 
42 
May 
49-3 
June 
39*4 
June 
434 
Dec. 
38 
June 
45*3 
July 
37-7 
July 
375 
Jan. 
36 
July 
43 7 
Aug. 
41*2 
Aug. 
45-4 
Feb. 
39 
Aug. 
460 
Sep. 
45-7 
Sep. 
487 
Mar. 
42 
Sept. 
49*9 
Oct. 
51-3 
Oct. 
57-0 
April 
47 
Oct. 
53-1 
Nov. 
54-7 
Nov. 
60-6 
May 
56 
Nov. 
57-6 
Dec. 
60-4 
Dec. 
64 -6 
June 
60 
Dec. 
61-1 
The climate of Hobart Town compares very 
favourably with that of London ; for while the 
summer heat is exactly the same, Hobart Town 
is seven degrees warmer in winter than London, 
which is more to be accounted for by the in- 
fluence of the sea than by any difference in 
latitude. 
This is a formidable array of figures, but my 
excuse for furnishing it must be that I wish to 
„ hnt out how well Australia deserves all the 
pra A __ that have been bestowed on her 
climate. The temperature of the me- 
dium latitudes of Australia is precisely 
that of those favoured spots on the 
Mediterranean and the neighbouring ocean, 
which are the chosen places of abode of those 
people, whose wealth enables them to select from 
ail Europe where they shall reside, and whose 
refined taste, if not already fully known, would 
be amply confirmed by their choice in this 
respect. I allude to such places as Naples, 
Nice, Borne, &c. : neither St. Petersburg nor 
Pondicherry would be places of choice to live 
in. No part of Australia at present settled 
approaches the extreme of either. 
In contrast with this, what we know of the 
climate of Queensland is little indeed ; we 
know certainly that Cape Moreton climate is 
more equable than that of Brisbane, and that 
Gladstone, with its south-east trade wind en- 
joys a cooler summer than Brisbane does ; and 
we know also from Sir Thomas Mitchell’s 
observations that in the interior of the colony 
the heat varies from 125 deg. in the shade in 
summer, down to 10 deg. at night in winter 
even in the tropics ; hut we require to know 
more than this ; we require something definite 
and reduced to figures about the climate of 
Darling Downs, the Burnett table-land, Ihe 
Peak Downs, and other places in the interior, 
as well as on and near the sea coast. We want 
to know where wheat will thrive best, and 
where sugar ; we want to know to what part 
of the colony our new arrivals had better 
direct their steps in search of health or wealth, 
with the best prospect of securing either. 
It must not be forgotten that the grand 
ultimate object of all these observations is 
collation and comparison at some head auarter 
(either in Europe or Australia) of the whole. 
In this manner the result of the dispersed 
labours of the many may be brought together 
and digested into a practical and useful form, 
and made available therefor by the expe- 
rienced skill of some superior master 
of the science. 
The terrible storm of October 1859, generally 
called the “ Koyal Charter ” storm was pre- 
ceded and accompanied by various abnormal 
atmospheric symptoms, which has been dis- 
cussed in full by scientific men. The still more 
violent and fatal storm of January, 1839, raged 
at its worst, at very nearly the same spot ; on 
this (Sunday) morning the Pennsylvania, 
Lockwoods, and St. Andrews, and many other 
vessels left Liverpool, but only to come ashore 
again at night on the shoals at the mouth of 
the Mersey. I have not met with any observa- 
tions of the weather taken at or before this 
cyclone, but as -it was certainly the most 
violent in England within the present genera- 
tion, * the accompanying disturbance of the 
atmosphere must have been well worthy of 
note and record. 
The great storm of 1703, and that in which 
the Eddystone Lighthouse was destroyed, 
might have furnished interesting data to the 
meteorologist, bat, unfortunately, at that time, 
