






REPORT—1852. 

Appearance and Brightness Velocity or 
Train or sparks. 



Date. Hour. magnitude. and colour. Duration. | 
1852. | h m 
Aug 10) 9 34 p.m. |Small «.....+0-....s00s Bright ...00000+|,ccscssssesecessosocees soeeceees From below 6 & 
Ursz Minoris 
f Ursee Majoris 
Q 37 PM. |-cecsesereccrseseseneeeserslecescencnees sanblal ese O ese sanaheabaanisanessnaneane From Algz obliq 
ly toward the hi 
rizon. 
15| 9 5 p.m. |Small, brilliamt ......)......sssssseeeeeeleeeeeeeeee mateensdeasaee viscutuelauaeeesseacedsssehee q 
OSB eens Small, globular ...... Bright bluish-|...........sseesecseeeeeseene assc| eeodesteeees becca 
white. { 
Immediate- |Very similar .........|... eeeceeceeres Sclanseneen ss sdvadscesceucseaceuswel tenteannarsse< steam : 
ly after 
last. 
Ln | eee Light, =2nd mag....|.......sesseeseses|ee Gecaceccadswadescdsasecssscuadsltgteeesnt ss ceemenamm ‘ 
22) 7 44 p.m. |Nearly=half moon...|Brilliant clearLeft a train in its path .,.|Slow; several se- 
white light. conds. 





APPENDIX, 
Containing original details of various observations of Meteors communicated 
by the respective observers to Prof. Powell. ° 
No. 1.—It may be important for comparison to mention that in the Phil. 
Mag., Jan. 1839, will be found observations of 54 shooting stars, seen in the 
night of Noy. 12-13, 1838, at 109 York Street, Whitechapel, by W. R. Birt, 
Esq. 
No. 2.—Further particulars of the Meteor shower, April 19-20, 1851. 
(See last Report, App., Nos. 23, 24, 25, 29.) 
“ Meteors.—We have been favoured with the following from Madras on the 
subject of the shower of meteors visible all over India on the 19th or 20th 
of April. By a blunder of our own we mistook the Bombay date, and made 
it Saturday the 19th, when it ought to been Sunday the 20th; and on this 
night accordingly the shower was seen here, at Poona, and at Cawnpore. | 
With all these coincidences we came to the conclusion that our Kolapore — 
correspondent, who gave an account of them, had also mistaken-the date, and 
that there had been one shower only. As he makes no sign of recantation, 
