148 * REPORT— 1857. 
June.—A little bluish; bluish; reddish towards the horizon; yellow; 
greenish towards the horizon. 
July.—Bluish towards the horizon, 4 cases; very white, then bluish 
towards the horizon ; yellow, green, blue, then red; fragments greenish yellow, 
bluish, then reddish ; fragments clear yellow, then yellow-red. 
August.—Reddish, 2 cases ; bluish; bluish towards the horizon, 6 eases ; 
whitish, then blue towards the horizon; whitish, then bluish ; very white ; 
broke itself into bluish fragments near the horizon. 
September.—Bluish ; bluish towards the horizon, 4 cases; copper-red, 
then bluish towards the horizon ; yellow-red; then bluish; reddish, bluish, 
then greenish blue, as also the fragments. 
October.—Red towards the horizon; bluish; bluish, red, then greenish; 
brilliant yellow, then yellow-red ; copper-red, white, then greenish at the 
horizon ; yellow, bluish yellow, then reddish ; clear yellow, then copper-red. 
November.—Bluish, 2 cases; bluish towards the horizon, 2 cases; frag- 
ments bluish; yellow-orange towards the horizon; fragments yellow, red, 
greenish blue; yellow-white, yellow-orange, then greenish, very white, being 
broken into fragments; two only passed from white to the colour of red-hot 
iron; reddish. 
December.—Reddish towards the horizon; bluish towards the horizon, 2 
cases; bluish ; copper-yellow; yellow, then bluish towards the horizon; 
whitish, then blood-red. 
Total of coloured shooting globes, 76 cases. 
Globes with trains differently coloured from the body. 
July.—Globe bluish towards the horizon, with a deep red train; white, 
then bluish, with a remarkable red-white train; white, reddish, then bluish 
towards the horizon with reddish train. 
August.—Globe bluish towards the horizon with greenish train. 
September.—Globe very brilliant white, with train reddish on the west 
side, greenish in the middle, and whitish on the east side. 
Total of globes with different-coloured trains, 5 cases. 
Globes with trains similarly coloured. 
July.— Greenish train. 
August.—Bluish trains, 3 cases; greenish train. 
September.—Clear yellow train, then deep red. 
October.—Very white train, then at the end of its duration of a less 
splendid whiteness. 
November.— Reddish trains, then greenish, 2 cases. 
December.—Reddish train, bluish, then greenish. 
Total of globes with uniquely-coloured trains, 10 cases. 
The author states that these meteors correspond to the period of the ob- 
servations made in China and in England described in the preceding notices. 
Changes of colour. 
In China.—April: colour of fire, then white. December: red, then white, 
In England.—February: green, red, then violet; globe green, red, then 
violet. April: red, then blue, 2 cases. July: brilliant orange-red, almost 
white, then very brilliant red. August: reddish, then brilliant blue. Septem- 
ber: straw colour, then purple. November: orange, then orange-yellow, 
pale orange, and after 15° of transit, bluish. 
Shooting stars accompanied by coloured tails of the same tints. 
In China.—November: red star, divided itself into 5 stars, of which the 
first had a red tail. 
