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under the moon, and seemed to spend itself before it would otherwise become 
invisible from the convexity of the earth. Mrs. Irving also saw it, but I am 
not aware of any one else.......... 
“J have the honour to be, Sir, 
“ Your obedient Servant, 
.* To Professor Powell, Oxford.” “James IrvING.” 
No. 8.—Extract from a memorandum communicated to Prof. Powell by 
W. H. Black, Esq. of the Rolls’ Office, dated Mill-yard, Whitechapel, London, 
March 6, 1849. 
“This evening (March 6, 1849), soon after sunset, a bright meteor fell. 
It began its path somewhat below and to the southward of the (, and fell in 
a curve, brighter all the way than ¢ (which was then shining in the west), 
and exploded at the end of that curve with a flash, its body appearing of the 
colour and brightness of the (, somewhat lanceolated, half as large as the 
(, and slightly greenish and red in the flash with which it expired or dis- 
appeared. 
“Tt was about | second or 1 in falling ; and the time was (as nearly as I 
could ascertain by my watch and clock) 185 8™ C.T., or 6° 8' p.m. 
“ The window from which I saw this pheenomenon looks directly eastward ; 
and as I stood on the left side of the window, I could clearly see the S.E., 
and marked the exact spot where it disappeared, as well as its path through 
the leafless boughs of a tree, the ( being about 45° in height, S.E.E.; and 
the meteor exploding about 12° or 15° in height S.E. from me.” 
No. 9.—The Bombay Times, March 21, 1849, gives a statement from a cor- 
respondent, announcing the appearance of a luminous meteor at Bombay, on 
Monday, 19th March, at 63 P.M. 
Ibid. March 24. The editor adds:—‘ The nieteor, as seen from the 
esplanade, seemed to issue from a thin streak of cloud overhanging the dock- 
yard. It thence rushed in a north-easterly direction, as if over the custom- 
house and towards the town-hall. The light it emitted was of a brilliant 
green: when it exploded it seemed resolved into a mass of red embers. The 
meteor was seen from Poona, Tannah, and probably over a very large expanse 
in the interior, and must have been, when it exploded, very much higher in 
the air than it appeared.” 
The following are extracts from correspondence subjoined :— 
“I (with others) was to the north-east of the police hulk on the evening 
in question, and saw the fire-ball, which appeared to rise from one of the 
ships lying nearest to Mazagon: this brilliant meteor might have been at 
any distance you please in the N.E., though we fancied that it was within 
three hundred yards of us.—F.” 
“On Monday (19th) evening, as I was taking a walk with a friend of 
mine on the Grant road ‘flats,’ my attention was attracted to, as it were, a 
planet of the size of a common-sized hen’s egg(?). A second or two did not 
elapse from the time I saw it whole*till it burst, and the light that it shed 
A 
was unusually brilliant for a meteor. I may here mention that we were not 
the only persons who saw it; for on my going to the fort the next morning, 
a friend of mine told me that as he was ‘spending the evening at Mazagon, 
he saw just what I have related.—G.” 
“On Monday the 19th inst., a meteor answering the description was seen 
by a friend of mine about the same hour on that evening in a N.E. direction. 
It was first seen in the form of a ball about the size of a large egg(?), darting 

