Meteorology records and notes on the mortality of the Hobart town registration district during the month of May, 1872.

Meteorological records recorded at the Observatory, Hobart Town. Includes leafing, flowering, and fruiting of a few standard plants in the Royal Society's Gardens during the month of May, 1872.
The total deaths this month exceeded that of any May in the previous 15 years. Great fluctuations in atmospheric pressure, and very great daily variations of temperature, seem to have been the principal agents in causing the high death rate in previously diseased and debilitated persons. Deaths from zymotic and acute inflammatory affections were very small, and of young persons below 20 years old the deaths were at a minimum.