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No. 3.— Note from Mrs. Smyth to Prof. Powell. 



" Port Madoc, Carnarvonshire, (? 13th Aug. 1850. 



" About a quarter past 11 p.m., looking eastward, we saw a meteor rush 

 horizontally towards the south, leaving a long bright streak behind it. 



" First seen below /3 Aquilse and ended above Fomalhaut. 



" The Pleiades had just risen above the peak of Cynicht to the N.E. The 

 night was splendid. " A. S." 



Note to Capt. Smyth. " Collingwood, 16th August, 1850. 



" Of 75 meteors we saw in about an hour or an hour and a half, on the 

 night of the 9th, only 4 or 5 did not emanate from a point somewhere near 

 /3 Camelopardali. It clouded, and the 10th was bad." 



No. 5. — Letter to Prof. Powell from Mr. Boreham. 



" Haverhill, Aug. 17, 1850. 



" Dear Sir, — I beg to forward you a rough diagram, made by Mrs. W. W. 

 Boreham on the night of the 11th of August, of the approximate paths of 

 55 shooting stars observed by her from 9^ 15™ till 11 o'clock on that evening. 



" Forty were observed on the night of the 9th from 9^ SO'" to 11 o'clock. 



" The course of that headed 1 /» ought to have been placed a little more 

 westward, but I send the diagram uncooked. 



" I am, dear Sir, yours most truly, Wm. W. Boreham." 

 " Rev. Prof. B. Powell, SfC. S,c., Oxford." 



Approximate directions of 55 Meteors observed at Haverhill, by Mrs. Boreham. 



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