REPORTS 



ON 



THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



Oa Observations of Luminous Meteors ; continued from the Report of 

 1850. By the Rev. Badem Powell, M.A., F.R.S. ^c, Savilian 

 Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. 



In presenting a fourth report in continuation of a collection of observations 

 of Luminous Meteors, I have merely to observe that in the present instance, 

 for this first time, the tabular form of arrangement agreed upon by a Com- 

 mittee of the British Association last year, has been adopted by most of the 

 observers : and in connexion with the use of it, I would wish to suggest to 

 those who favour the Association with their contributions, the desirableness 

 of allowing a more distinct space to each individual observation ; as it is often 

 necessary to separate them in order to arrange them with others in chronolo- 

 gical order. 



Besides the assistance of several other friends, I have to acknowledge more 

 especially, as heretofore, the aid of Mr. E. J. Lowe, of Dr. Buist, and the 

 Rev. J. Slatter. Some of the results collected by the British Meteorological 

 Society have also been sent to me ; and it is much to be wished that that 

 Society would co-operate with the British Association by regularly furnishing 

 copies of their Meteor Observations for this Report. 



As on former occasions many meteors have been communicated to me of 

 a date earlier than the conclusion of the last catalogue : these are here 

 prefixed. It would tend materially to the unity and arrangement of the 

 catalogue if this could be avoided. 



1851. 



