92 



KEPORT — 1855. 



Date. 



Hour. 



Appearance and 

 magnitude. 



Brightness 

 and colour. 



Train or sparks. 



Velocity or 

 duration. 



1855. 

 Aug. 13 



h m s 

 1 3 .... 



1 8 

 1 9 



1 9 30. 

 1 10 .... 



15 



16 



17 



12 43 a.m. 



= 4th mag.* 



= 3rd mag.* 



= 3rd mag.* 



= 2nd mag.* 

 = 3rd mag.* 



= 3rd mag.* 



Blue. 



Streak 



Streak 



Colourless ...'Streak 



Colourless ... Streak 

 Colourless ... Streak 



Colourless ... Streak 



Rapid 



Rapid 



Rapid 



Rapid 

 Rapid 



Rapid 



12 44 



12 45 30.. 

 12 10 a.m. 

 10 45 p.m. 



12 45 am. 



22 10 45 p.m. 



= 3rd mag.* 

 = 3rd mag.* 

 = 3rd mag.* 



Long train .... 



Red 'streak of light. 



Colourless ... 



Sept. 3jl0 14 



4 8 30 



8 32 



8 50 



Two small meteors 

 ■with streaks. 

 1st mag.* 



= 3rd mag.* 

 -1st mag.*.. 



Red 



Colourless 



Streak 



Rapid 



Duration 0'5 sec 

 Rapid 



Having a long train of 

 light. 



Duration 0*2 sec. 



Rapid, instanta- 

 neous. 



Train 



.[Rapid 



APPENDIX. 

 No. I. 





Mr. Ansell describes the appearance of the fire-ball as of intense bright- 

 ness, its colour being a clear and vivid white, and refers the cause of its 

 dazzling brilliance to its intense ignition in passing through the earth's atmo- 

 sphere ; comparing it with the well-known experiment of fusing and even 

 volatilizing iron by means of the oxy-hydrogen blow-pipe, he says its light 

 and accompanying scintillations were of precisely the same character as 

 those produced in the experiment alluded to, and he has very little doubt 

 that they were actually the same. The metallic iron which we know enters 

 largely into the composition of aerolites having become heated and subse- 

 quently fused, produced so intense an ignition that explosion necessarily 

 followed. The appearance witnessed was exceedingly beautiful. The 

 drawing at the head of this article represents the meteor at the moment 

 of explosion. 



