Meteorological observations made on board the ship 'Southern Cross', by Louis Bernacchi Daily meteorological observations made at two hourly intervals on board the steam sealing vessel 'Southern Cross'. The first set of data [pp.4-53] records sailing from Hobart, Tasmania, to Cape Adare, eastern Antarctica, December 1898-February 1899. The second set of information [pp.55-96] is from the return voyage, from Possession Island, off Antarctica, to Stweart Island, New Zealand, February-March 1900. Columns record the date and time of observation, latitude and longitude, aneroid and/or mercury barometer, maximum and minimum temperatures, thetmometer no. 90151, dry and wet thermometers, dew point [not completed], sea temperature, force and direction of wind, amount and form of cloud, specific gravity of sea, and general weather remarks. Made during the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900 [the Southern Cross Expedition] led by Captain Carsten Borchgrevink. Headed [p.1]: 'Meteorological observations made on board S.Y. "Southern Cross" from Hobart to Cape Adare', and initialled 'L.B.' [Louis Bernacchi]. There are two loose inserts, one from William Napier Shaw, the Royal Society, n.d. [1904] 'The Meteorological Documents of the Borchgrevink Expedition particularly the curves of the self recording instuments...will send'. With a list of aneroidograms and thermograms received by Aubrey C Goad, Meteorological Office, 7 November 1904. 21 December 1898-30 March 1900