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EECEEATIVE SCIENCE. 



1852, Dec. 17 



1853, Aug. 7 

 „ Aug. 9 

 „ Aug. 23 

 „ Sept. 25 

 „ Sept. 30 

 „ Oct. 28 



1854, Feb. 25 

 „ April 1 

 „ Aug. 30 

 „ Oct. 7 

 „ Oct. 22 



1855, July 13 

 „ Aug. 3 

 „ Aug. 10 

 „ Oct. 14 

 „ Dec. 11 

 „ Dec. 19 



1856, Jan. 7 

 „ Feb. 3 

 „ Aug. 25 

 „ Aug. 31 

 „ Oct. 27 

 „ Dec. 13 



1857, Jan. 9 

 „ Apr. 16 

 „ Sept. 29 



1858, Sept. 30 



1859, Aug. 10 



Dover 



Glasgow 



London 



Higbfield House 



Stone 



Leven 



Obs., Beeston 



Obs., Beeston 



Obs., Beeston 



St. Ives 



Nottingham 



Hitchin 



Beeston 



Beeston 



Beeston 



Nottingbam 



Edinburgh 



Highfield House 



EosehUl 



Obs., Beeston 



St. Ives 



Highfield House 



St. Ives 



HighfieldHousc 



Ashford 



HighfieldHousc 



Highfield House 



Obs., Beeston 



Obs., Beeston 



F. Higginson 



D. Eankine 

 W. K. Birt 



E. J. Lowe 



M. F. V. Fasel 

 W. Swan 

 Mrs. E. J. Lowe 



E. J. Lowe 

 S. Watson 

 J. K. Watts 



F. E. Swan 



G. F. AnseU 

 E. J. Lowe 

 E. J. Lowe 



E. J. Lowe 



F. E. Swan 

 0. P. Smyth 

 E. J. Lowe 

 M. Carrington 

 E. J. Lowe 



J. K. Watts 

 E. J. Lowe 

 J. K. Watts 



E. J. Lowe 



F. Wakefield 

 A. S. H. Lowe 

 E. J. Lowe 



E. J. Lowe 

 E. J. Lowe 



A lengthened description of the whole of 

 the above meteors is included in the Hev. 

 Professor Baden Powell's Eeports on " Lu- 

 minous Meteors," published in the " British 

 Association Transactions," 1848 — 1859. 



One other phenomenon deserves notice. In 

 1845 M. de Gasperis and Sig. Capocci, on the 

 11th of May, witnessed a great number of 

 black bodies cross the sun's disc. In 1849 

 Mr. Brown, of Deal, on the 5th of February, 

 saw two. Other observers have witnessed 

 the same phenomenon, and Messier,* in 1777, 

 saw 200 dark bodies cross the solar disc. Mr. 

 Dawes conceives the appearance to be due to 

 seeds floating in the atmosj)here, whilst the 

 Eev. W. Eeed disputes Mr. Dawes's notion. 

 To say the least, the subject is worth a few 

 years' careful attention. It must, however, 



* " Obsei-vation singulier d'une prodigieuse quan- 

 tite de petites globules qui ont passe au devant du 

 disque du soleil." — Mem. Acad. Paris, 1 777, p. 4G1. 



Half size of moon, hissing, fell in sea, causing 



Large. ^ [spray. 



Separated into two. 



Curious. 



Curious wavy train. 



Large. Pear-shaped. 



Half the size of sun. Day-time. 



Disappeared on reaching zodiacal light. 



Very large. 



Large and curious. 



Large. 



Large. 



Large. 



Large. 



Curious. 



Large. A break in the tail. 



Large. 



Large as moon. Visible ten minutes. 



Nearly as large as moon. [red. 



Half size of moon. Green, then orange, then 



Curious. 



Curious. 



Curious. 



Large and curious. 



Large. 



Large. 



Large and curious. 



Curious. 



Curious. 



be borne in mind that, in all probability, they 

 are within a few thousand, perhaps hundreds, 

 of miles' distance ; therefore a telescope wiU 

 require focussing expressly for this purpose, 

 as the focus of the sun, for instance, would 

 perhaps allow the bodies to pass across the 

 disc without being seen. Professor Erman* 

 has stated that the cold days of the 5th to the 

 7th of February, and the 11th to the 13th of 

 May, were owing to the passage of falling 

 stars between us and the sun. 



E. J. Lowe. 

 Highfield Souse Ohseroatory. 



A WILD PEIMEOSE 

 Was seen in bloom, October 10th, on 

 Lesser Cumbrae, Firth of Clyde, lat. 551° N., 

 where the gulf-stream promotes a very equ- 

 able temperature. 



* " Astronomisclie Nachrichten," No. 385. 



