December.
ment store in small quantities, fishing and shooting parties were occasionally sent out; and, together with the large collections of penguin's eggs that were made, we had no reason to complain.
The proper season for resuming our operations in the south being now at hand, our observations were concluded in the early part of December, and the ships made ready for sea.
The meteorological abstracts and remarks are printed in the Appendix.
The result of our magnetic observations gave the mean dip, and variation for each month as follows:—
| Variation. | Dip. | |||||||
| For | April | 17° | 50′ | 18″ | E. | 52° | 26′ | 1″ |
| May | 43 | 47 | 25 | 7 | ||||
| June | 38 | 10 | 25 | 5 | ||||
| July | 35 | 39 | 22 | 4 | ||||
| August | 33 | 0 | 23 | 1 | ||||
| September | 32 | 19 | ||||||
| October | 30 | 10 | ||||||
| November | 27 | 33 | 18 | 8 | ||||
| December | 16 | 1 | ||||||
The latitude of the observatory 51° 32′ 5″ S., and the longitude 58° 7′ W.
The state of the tide was registered every half hour between the 10th of May and 6th of September, and more frequently about the times of high and low water, from which the following general results were deduced, without reference to some remarkable irregularities which occurred, and which belong to the phenomena of periodical inequalities.
