REPORTS 
ON 
THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 
A Catalogue of Observations of Luminous Meteors. By the Rev. 
_ Baven Powe tu, M.A., F.R.S. &c., Savilian Professor of Geo- 
— metry, Oxford. 
(A communication ordered fo be printed among the Reports to the Association.) 
In the Volume of Reports of the British Association for 1847 I have given a 
very imperfect list of observed luminous meteors, as far as I could collect 
_ them, for the several years subsequent to the termination of M. Quetelet’s very 
complete catalogue (Nouv. Mem. Acad. Bruxelles, tom. xi.), With a view to 
enlarging and carrying on this design from year to year, I have been desirous 
to form at least the nucleus of a collection of all observations of this kind 
under the auspices of the British Association ; and my wishes have been re- 
sponded to by numerous correspondents, from whose valuable communications, 
well as the data furnished by several journals, I have been enabled to 
up the annexed catalogue ; which includes a few observations of earlier 
, but is more full for the later; reaching down to the present time. It 
ow offered to the British Association as presenting a condensed view of 
isting observations collected in one record: the-original documents, as 
mmunicated to the author, are collected in the Appendix, and references 
made to the sources of information in other cases. ‘To any such cata- 
ue doubtless many additions may remain to be made ; and it is hoped that 
such contributions will be forwarded to the author at Oxford, who will embody 
them in a continuation of the catalogue at a future time. 
TasLe oF Luminous METEORS. 
Description. Place. Observer. Reference. 
ppt. 17........|Four meteors, with an aurora..|York............,Prof. Phillips ...|Lowe’sAtmospheric 
1838 ' Phenomena, 174. 
7 seseol[A large meteor ..ssscseeeeeseeeess(Mensington ...|[dem. os... Ibid. 233. 
! “ae Several; small ....essseessecees ..|Durham ...... Prof. Chevallier |Ibid. 
eae Several; some brilliant ........./Plymouth......|/Prof. Phillips ...|MS. 
. 9.......00e{Numerous. 80 in 3 hours, with/Gosport ......|H. Maverly, Esq.|Ibid. 156. 
an aurora. 
../24 in an hour (one observer)...|Malvern ...... Prof. Phillips* . 
.|A remarkable meteor ....+..+....|Cambridge ....|Mr. J. Glaisher. .|Lowe’ sAtmospheric 
Phenomena, 367. 
* Bulletin de l’Acad. Roy. Appendix, No. 70, 
