Meteorology records and analysis of the observatory records for May 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 May 1866.<br>Never before during the twenty-five years that exact and continuous meteorological records have been kept was there so warm a May as the present month. Atmospheric pressure, too, was very high, calms very numerous, with great predominance of winds from the quarter least favorable to health, excessive daily ranges of tempcerature, unusually hot sun, warm terrestrial radiations, great elastic-force of vapour, and very peculiar electrical conditions.<br>At this season of the year all the pnenomeua alluded to were more or less adverse to health and life. On the other hand, an average fall of rain, a slight excess of atmospheric humidity, with ozone above the average, to some extent counteracted the inimical phenomena, so that the mortuary return is not much above the mean of the previous nine years for the month of May. May and November have been always, on the average, the healthiest months in the year.