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 LONDON, EDINBURGH and DUBLIN 



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JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 



[THIRD SERIES.] 

 APRIL 1850. 



XXXII. Additional Observations on the Meteor of February W^ 

 J 850, and Deduction of the Resultsfrom all the Observations. 

 By James Glaisher, Esq.^ F.R.S.y F.R.A.S., and of the 



Royal Observatory, Greenwich.* 



IN my previous paper upon the meteor of February 11, 

 1850, I gave all the accounts I had then received upon 

 it. Since that time I have been favoured with many more on 

 the same subject; and several gentlemen have been kind 

 enough to revisit their phices of observation, and to take such 

 measures as to confirm the accuracy of their first accounts or 

 to correct them. I have thus been enabled to form a better 

 judgement of the path, &c. of the meteor. I shall first give 

 the results of my inquiries : it will be found that some are 

 contradictory, but 1 have been fearful to omit them, as by so 

 doing I might pass over facts which may become valuable. 



The numbering of the accounts are in continuation of those 

 in the preceding paper. 



XXIV. Penzance, Cornwall. George Davies, Esq., Com- 

 mander R.N., Coast Guard Service, favoured me with the 

 following : — 



" Being out on duty, and about half-way between this place 

 and St. Ives, my attention was arrested by the meteor, and 

 the exclamation of the mounted guard who accompanied me 

 of' Good God ! what's that ?' The night being here some- 

 what misty, the meteor did not present that definite rocket- 

 like appearance described by others, but of an immense glo- 

 bular expansion of flame seen at a great altitude in the north, 

 and taking its course from N.W. to S.W., dissolving with a 

 momentary increased brilliancy. No report was heard. It was 

 visible from 15^ to 20% and the time was about 11^ 4>5^ p.m." 

 * Communicated by the Author. 



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