6 REPORT—1848, 
It was also ascertained that 10 miles west from the place nothing was heard ; 
10 miles S.W. the meteor was seen and the explosion heard ; as it was also 
to 25 miles S.E. 
Extract of a letter from E. J. Lowe, Esq. to the author :— 
“My dear Sir,—There is one circumstance in connexion with falling stars 
that I could never understand, which is this: when a falling star crosses an 
auroral beam or arch it instantly brightens; this I have not only noticed on 
one day, but on four or five different ones when this phenomenon has taken 
place during a display of aurora; indeed on every display since the period 
when I first noticed them brighten, the same has again occurred. This is a 
fact worthy of further notice. It appears to me that the falling stars and 
aurora borealis must be at the same elevation above our earth, and if so, we 
shall then be better enabled to calculate the height of aurora. I am inclined 
to imagine that an aurora has never yet been accurately measured, for to do 
so we must suppose the arch a single one, and it is probable that we each 
observe under different cireumstances.—EpwARb JosEPH Lowe.” 
To this was appended the following :— 
o 
Meteors copied from ‘ Treatise on Atmospheric Phenomena’ seen by the 
Author. 
6. 1843. August 13th. From 8* to 9" many falling stars, especially near 
Cassiopeia, Cygnus, and Ursa Major. 
7. 1843. October 16th. From 6" to 8" many caudate meteors crossed 
the sky ; one of more than ordinary dimensions passed from the constella- 
tion Pegasus through Cygnus, Lyra and Corona Borealis, and faded away 
in Bootes near Arcturus, leaving a brilliant stream of light behind it for a 
few seconds. 
8. 1843. November 18th, 11520™. Observed a beautiful caudate meteor ; 
first noticed it near Sirius; it passed through é Orionis, Bellatrix, Aldebaran, 
Hyades, Pleiades, 6 and y Arietis, between « and 6 Andromede, and faded 
away near 6 Pegasi. Its disc appeared as nearly as possible about three times 
the size of the apparent disc of the planet Jupiter. 
9. 1844. January 26, 115 45™. Many falling stars, especially near Orion, 
Gemini and Canis Minor. 
10. 1844. October 18th. Many falling stars, chiefly near Cetus, Aries and 
Ursa Minor. 
11. 1844. November 11th, 7%. A falling star; fell from 6 Andromede 
to « Ceti. 
12. 1844, November 13th, 9". Saw four large meteors. The first fell 
from 6 Cassiopeia to » Tauri; second, from n to 6 Tauri; third, from Ca- 
pella to y Tauri; and the fourth from Pegasus to n Tauri. 
13. 1845. January 31st, 12 14™, A large caudate meteor of a red 
colour traversed the interval between Cor Leonis and Procyon, leaving a 
brilliant light behind it for about a second after its disappearance. At 
125 37™ a meteor passed from Cor Caroli to Arcturus. At 12" 44™ a beau- 
tiful blue meteor fell from the Pole-star to a little north of Cassiopeia. 12° 
54™ another red meteor passed about 6° east of » Ursa Majoris. 
14. 1845. February 5th, 5%. Several falling stars. 
15. 1845. December 3rd, 88 23™,. A small meteor fell from the constel- © 
lation Cygnus, through a very brilliant auroral arch (see Atm. Phen. p. 127), 
at @ Pegasi, which lett a trail of light behind it for the space of a second; — 
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