Meteorology records and analysis of observatory records, and health report for May, with note on census of 1870

Meteorological records recorded at the Observatory, Hobart Town. Also includes leafing, flowering, and fruiting times of a few standard plants in the Royal Societies gardens for the month of May, 1870.- Most of the meteorological phenomena of this month deviate from the 25 years adopted standard, and though diseases of the respiratory organs prevailed extensively, the effect on the mortuary returns was but slight, the total mortality of the month being somewhat below the average of the previous 13 years, and no May of the previous six years having so small a number of deaths as the present month