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Appearance and Brightness : Velocity or 
Date. Hour. Magnitude. and Colour. Train gg Sparks, Duration. 
1857. |h m 
Feb. 26] 8 12 p.m./=Ist mag.*........004 Bluish ......006 Maint rte ccacscoctevevees ...(Rapid, duration 0°3 
sec. 
, 11 3 pem.|=Srd mag.* cisseecss|iseceeeeseeees veo StTEAK creveceeee ipeaseeee cooes{RAPIA .eseeceeseveees 
April 16)11 36 p.m.8 times size of % ...\Colourless ...|Leaving a long train Of|Slowly +++.s.seosesss 
light for several seconds. 
GAug. 9| 8 30 p.m. =1st MAG.*. srssveeees|COlOurless 4.|Streak sesesecesseresreeereeees Slowly <.s0sccsccsaver 
13/10 30 p.m. = 2A sserceerereees eA? Colour  steel-Small tail..........+ seseseeses{SlOW, Curation 5 to 
blue. 6 secs, 
The August meteors have been badly seen here, owing to much cloud on the one hand, and full 
cricket-ball, fell N. of Nottingham. It is probably a meteor, and has been promised to me: the person 
APPENDIX. 
No. 1.—Details of a Meteorite mentioned in a former Report, which fell at 
Cirencester in 1835. Extract of a letter to Prof. Powell from Thos. C. 
Brown, Esq. 
“Copy of a notice of the Meteorite entered in the Book of Donations of 
the Permanent Library, Cirencester, by the late Mr. Arnold Merrick, Cura- 
tor to the Museum.—‘ A specimen of a meteorite which fell about half a 
mile from Aldsworth in a field occupied by Mr. Waine, within twenty yards { 
of his workmen, who were sitting against a wall at the time, on the 4th of 
August 1835, a sunny afternoon without a cloud. A meteor was seen at 
Cirencester proceeding eastward, and a remarkable noise was heard at half- 
ast 4 in the afternoon. The noise was heard in most parts adjacent. ; 
«<The workmen saw no unusual light, but heard the aérolite rush through : 
the air, and felt it shake the ground by striking it with great violence, It 
fell on a swarth of oats, and drove the straw before it down into the earth 
for six inches, till opposed by rock. When the men got it up, it was not hot, 
put the part of the surface which appeared not to have been broken was” 
quite black and soiled the fingers. It weighs about 9270 grains. It contains 
a great deal of iron, but is not magnetic. Its specific gravity is 3°4. 
<< Mr. Waine states that a shower of small pieces fell about half a mile 
south of the spot where this fell. Children thought it was a shower of 
black beetles, and held out their hands to catch them as they fell.’ 
«My niece, Miss Anna Sophia Brown, now Mrs. Pooley, about 4 P.M. on 
the same day, being in her father’s garden at Cirencester, perceived a meteor 
passing from W. to E., apparently about twice the height of Cirencester 
tower, which is upwards of 100 feet high, looking like a copper ball larger 
than an orange [?], and having a tail or stream of light behind it. In its 
passage it made a rumbling noise heard by many persons, reminding her of 
thunder, and the people of the town marvelled that it should thunder in a 
serene day with a cloudless sky. On the same day at Aldsworth, 13 miles 
E. of Cirencester, the meteoric stone fell, the particulars of which are before 
given. “Tuos. C. Brown.” 
No. 2.—From the Express, Wednesday, January 9, 1856. 
Remarkable Meteor.—A correspondent writes, under date Southampton, 
January 8, 1856 :—“ The meteor observed here yesterday made: its appears 
