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paper took place at Hartfield in Sussex, to the neighbour- 

 hood of which place it appeared to be confined, during the 

 period between sun-set on January 14th and midnight on 

 January 15th, 1820. At 10 P. M. on the 14th, an out-door 

 Fahrenheit's thermometer exposed to the N. E. was at zero, 

 and at 11 o'clock it indicated — 5°. Some time between the 

 hours of 1 and 8 A.M. on the 15th, it sunk to — 10°, as shown 

 by a Six's thermometer. It thence gradually rose, until at 

 midnight on the 15th it attained the elevation of + 23. A 

 thermometer exposed to the N. W. indicated 1° higher in 

 each observation. During this period of excessive cold, the 

 air was calm and clear, a few ill-defined cumuli only were 

 seen on the 15th ; the snow which had fallen on the 13th lay 

 on the ground. Dr. Forster received only one notice of a 

 distant observation, made at Canterbury, where a thermo- 

 meter in-doors indicated 0°; which was also the temperature 

 in-doors at Hartfield on the morning of the 15th. 



Dr. W. Burney communicated, through the Secretary, the 

 Results of a Meteorological Journal for February 1824, kept 

 at his Observatory at Gosport, Hants. 



April 14. — A note was read on certain Phenomena of the 

 late Cold Weather, and on Zodiacal Light, &c. ; by Luke How- 

 ard, Esq. F.R.S. and Member of the Meteorological Society. 



Dr. Burney communicated the Results of his Meteorological 

 Journal for March ; and similar communications were received 

 from other Meteorologists. 



May 12. — Dr. Burney communicated the Results of his 

 Journal for April ; and the following paper was read : 



" An Account of the principal Phaenomena of Igneous Me- 

 teors which were observed in the year 1823 ; forming part of a 

 Review of the Progress of Meteorological Science during that 

 period : with Remarks on the Characters of certain Meteorites." 

 By E. W. Brayley jun. A.L.S. and M. Met. Soc. In this 

 paper the author first describes, from various authorities, the 

 Fire-balls which were observed respectively on the 26th of 

 January 1823, at Gosport; on the 23d of May, at Kiel in 

 Denmark ; and on the 20th of August, at Ragusa. The lat- 

 ter, being contemporaneous with an earthquake at the same 

 place, gives occasion for an inquiry how far the appearance 

 of Igneous Meteors may be considered as an attendant phe- 

 nomenon of earthquakes : several meteors of this kind, it is 

 observed, were seen in the province of Cutch at the time of the 

 extensive earthquake in India in 1819, the most violent motion 

 of which was experienced in that province and its vicinity ; and 

 two Fire-balls appeared, one at Zante, and the other at Ce* 

 phaloniii, on the (lav after the earthquake that desolated the 

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