
A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 41 
No. 10.—Bombay Bi-monthly Times, April 30, 1849. 
« A correspondent mentions that about half-past six on the evening of the 
96th of March, a meteor of considerable magnitude was seen from Cochin, 
travelling in a north-westerly direction. At first it seemed somewhat larger 
than the planet Venus, as now visible: it consisted of a nucleus of bright 
emerald green, with a long tail of an uniform red colour. It burst into frag- 
ments as it approached the earth. Our informant was not aware of any 
report having been heard accompanying the explosion.” 
No. 11.—Bombay Bi-monthly Times, April 30, 1849. 
«The meteor of the 13th April (Friday).—A writer in the ‘ Poona Chronicle’ 
gives us a notice of the meteor seen at Hingolee and Bombay on the 13th April, 
and completes the chain of evidence, establishing the fact that it was the same 
body which was visible at all the three points. None of the observers speak 
of its explosion, so we are left to infer that it continued to travel eastward 
beyond the reach of vision. It seems to have proceeded from west south- 
easterly—the Poona observer having obviously first seen it after it had passed 
him, so as to make it appear in the east: proceeding further easterly, Hingo- 
lee is in lat. 77° E., or nearly—Bombay 72° 49’. At the former place it was 
seen at nine very nearly, at the latter at from twelve to fifteen minutes after 
nine. If it travelled at the rate of thirty miles a second—the supposed 
velocity of the meteor of the 19th of March—it would occupy ten seconds 
from Bombay to Hingolee, assuming the distaace to be 300 miles: this isan 
amount of time that need not for the present be taken account of; and it 
may be assumed to have been seen at the two points simultaneously. The 
difference of time due to longitude, taking this at four degrees, would be 
sixteen minutes; and this corresponds very closely with the observed dif- 
ference. The Poona writer, who says he saw it three minutes before nine, is 
obviously wrong—it must have been twelve or thirteen minutes after, he 
” 
Ibid. From a correspondent :— 
“.,.... Last night as a friend and I were seated in a “ Chubooturah,” in 
front of my house, enjoying a refreshing zephyr that had just sprung up 
after a day of intense heat, and as I was contemplating the blue and spangled 
vault over our heads, my attention was attracted to a beautiful meteor, to 
which I immediately drew my friend’s attention. The time, just as the even- 
ing gun had sullenly boomed at nine p.., and its echo had scarce finished 
reverberating among the adjacent hills, when this body burst into view a little 
to the west and south, just as if the concussion had broken a portion from 
off one of the spheres above, and what we saw was the falling debris. From 
where we were seated, the apparent nucleus, whence it started, seemed not to 
be more than twenty-eight or thirty degrees in height from the to us then 
visible horizon. It left behind it a train of most beautiful light, and which 
appeared to us by no means inconsiderable in breadth—colour that of a most 
_ beautiful ‘blue light.’ The coruscation lasted for several seconds, when I 
lost sight of it behind my office bungalow.—J. J. H.” . 
“ Hingolee, April 14th, 1849.” 
“*,* An account of a meteor of the same description exactly, seen at 
Bombay at the same hour of the same evening, appeared in our last. If it 
‘ the same it has travelled over nearly 300 miles of country from E. to W. 
—EpIToR.” 
No. 12.—Bombay Bi-monthly Times, May 11, 1849. 
“ Poona, 2nd May, 1849. 
On Monday; 30th April, at 7°7,a meteor was seen just under 6 Urse 
