and the South of Scotland. 151 



There appears to be no other way of accounting for this ph?eno- 

 menon than by supposing it to have been a veiy large meteor^^ 



On Nov. 28, at 9^^ 38^ a meteor, hke a star ot the tourtn 

 masnitude, passed through e Taui-i and towards 12 Tauri. it 

 passed over about 6^ in less than a second. 



On Nov 28 at 9^^ 43^, a meteor, like a star of the hlth mag- 

 nitude, passed through u Tauri and about 1° south of m Taui-i. 

 It passed over about 10= in 1 second. . ., ^i • i 



On Nov. 28, at 9*^ 47"", a meteor, like a star ot the thu-a 

 magnitude, with a tail extending over about 5° proceeded from 

 a pomt about 4° west of, and of the same altitude as « Ceti, and 

 passed about half-way between Satui'u and v Ceti. it passed 

 over about 10° in 2 seconds. 



On December 4, at 9^^ 55^ a meteor, like a star of the second 

 magnitude, with a tail extending over fully 15 , passed through 



2 Orionis, 47 Tam-i, and about 1° above k 2 Ceti. It passed 

 over about 25° in 3 seconds. , r^-u ;i 



On December 12, at 9^^ 20^ a meteor, like a star of the second 

 magnitude, passed about 1° below ? and o Tauri, and about half 

 way between u Ceti and k 2 Ceti. It passed over about 10 in 



1 second. ,., , i ^ „j 

 On December 12, at 9^^ 32'°, a meteor like the last appealed 



near Sirius. Its path was nearly pei-pendicular to the horizon, 

 but formed a somewhat greater angle with the horizon north than 

 south. The meteor disappeared when it descended to withm 

 about 5° of the star; had it continued, it would have passed 

 about 3° E. of Sirius. It passed over about 6 m 3 seconds 



On December 12, at 9^^ 37», a meteor, like a star of the thnd 

 magnitude, passed through y Orionis and above v Ononis, pass- 

 ing the star at a distance of about 3^- It passed over about 9 



in l"o second. 



At Trowbridge, on October 26, several meteors were seen, one 

 especially as large as the planet Venus; it shot from the con^ 

 stdlatioA of Orion and disappeared m the west. On November 9 

 several beautiful meteors were seen, and shootmg in all directions 

 from east to west. On November 28 two splendid meteors were 

 seen; one passed from Ursa Major and disappeared in the 

 constellation of Orion, leaving a long tram of light behind it ; the 

 other shot further north, near the Pole Star, and disappeart-d 

 near the Pleiades, and which also left a train of light behind it 

 On December 3 a large meteor shot from the AA . and chsappeared 



near Arcturus. • i <. oh 



The series of observations of the directions of the wind at 9»^ 

 A M taken at the various railway stations, and published m the 

 Daiiu News, with those furnished to myself and to the Astro- 

 nomer Royal, ha\e continued with regularity. The follovMiig 

 tables have been formed from them : — 



