Meteorology records and analysis of the observatory records for January 1866 in conjunction with those of births and deaths

Meteorological records recorded at the Observatory, Hobart Town. Includes the leafing, flowering, and fruiting of a few standard plants in the Royal Society's Gardens during the month of January, 1866. Nothwithstanding the very dry character of this month,—only January 1841 having a smaller rain-fall of any January in the last twenty-five years—this phenomenon usually so adverse to health at this season of the year was more than compensated by other peculiarly favorable meteorological circumstances, so that the mortuary tables record an amount of deaths very much below the January average of the previous nine years