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- In England.—August : blue star, bluish train ; stars accompanied by trains 
differently coloured. 
In China.—June: a star (with a train) 200° in length; had the front 
part black, the termination red, and the middle white. 
In England.—February : a brilliant red star surrounded with the tints of 
the rainbow, with a bluish train. March: red star, train blue. April: star 
surrounded by a rich colour of purple, then blue, orange, and clear yellow; 
considerable train, clear yellow. July: cream-coloured, train purplish red 
in the centre and greenish blue at the latter part; blue star, train of pale 
red sparks. August: bluish white, train red. September: orange, train 
red; brilliant white, reddish train; blue, then brilliant red, throwing out 
sparks leaving a blue mark, visible during several seconds. 
Shooting stars with similarly coloured trains. 
In China.—Trains yellowish red: June, July, August, and November, 2 
cases each; October and September, 1 case. Yellow: January, 1 case. 
Reddish yellow: May and October, 1 case. Whitish blue: August and 
October, 2 cases; February, April, May, November, and December, 1 case. 
Reddish blue: June, 1 case. Blue and yellow: October, 1 case. 
In England.—Red: July, 1 case. Reddish: August, 1 case. Blue: 
February, April, and December, 1 case each; August, 2 cases. Bluish: 
November, 1 case. Of different colours: February, 1 case. With train of 
pale brilliant sparks: June, 1 case. 
Change of colour of stars when they break into fragments. 
In China the star divided itself into 1 blue and 2 red stars; at the moment 
when a globe of fire fell, a flame appeared, and a score of little red stars 
spouted out of it. This case, marked by M. Abel Résumat, is not noticed 
by M. Biot. 
In England.—March: green star, fragments red ; white star, gave greenish 
and red flashes in exploding. April: bluish red, fragments prismatic; star 
blue at the moment of explosion. July: yellow or pale orange star, three 
dull red fragments. October: brilliant globe separated into fragments with 
several colours. 
Shooting stars accompanied by others differently coloured. 
In China.—Winter and October: one red, the other white, 2 cases. No- 
vember: one yellow, the other red.’ 
In England.—July: fine orange-red globe, followed by a multitude of 
little blue globes, afterwards purple. 
Stars with reflexions of a different colour. 
In China.—July : blue star threw outa reddish light which illuminated the 
earth. December: reddish-blue star, ébid.; bluish light. 
Various other effects. 
In China,—October: red star, whose tail changed itself into a bluish- 
white vapour. May: a train dispersed itself slowly and became a greenish- 
black cloud. A tail divided itself into little whitish-blue stars. 
No. 5.—“A Memoir on Meteorites : and Description of five new Meteoric 
Irons,” &c., from the American Journal of Science, May 1855, vol. xix., by 
J. Lawrance Smith, M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Louis- 
ville, U.S. 
In this communication the author describes in detail specimens of meteor- 
ites found in North America—2 in Tennessee and 3 in Mexico. Figures 
are given representing their general appearance, and chemical analyses of 
