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R. Grant, of Glasgow, says : " The colour of the streaks was 

 invariably of a bright emerald green." 



J. Birmingham, of Tuam, says : " The nuclei were generally 

 red or of a deep orange, while the streaks were greenish or 

 bluish." 



Mr. Corder, of Bridgwater, describes those seen in 1896 as 

 yellow with green streaks. 



Magnitudes spoken of as comparable with the stars or 

 planets : 



Mr. Symons said that the largest were not twice the size of 

 Sirius in 1866 ; but many observers fully reliable speak of 

 individual meteors as many times brighter than Venus, and in a 

 few cases as half the diameter of the moon. 



Mr. Baxendell, of Manchester, wrote that out of every 

 100 meteors 10 were above the ist mag. The brightest of these 

 were two or three times the brightness of Sirius. Mr. Wood, of 

 Birmingham, estimated that in 1866 the average size was nearly 

 that of Mars, then shining, which many of the meteors resembled, 

 and that a small proportion were equal to Jupiter and one 

 exceeded Venus at her greatest brilliancy. All the above are not 

 American observers. 



We close with a few words concerning the Andromedes seen 

 from November 2 2nd to 29th; unhappily not seen this year in 

 England owing to cloudy weather. 



The Andromedes have a period of about 6 years. It 

 furnished a shower of about 2,000 meteors in December, 1798, 

 and recurred brilliantly in 1838, also in December. In 1872 and 

 1885 in each year on November 27th very abundant showers 

 were observed, and also in 1892 on November 2jrd. At 

 Princeton, in the U.S.A., more than 20 meteors per minute were 

 counted between 10 and n p.m. Bredichin says that the 

 difference of four days between the showers 1885 and 1892 was 

 brought about by perturbation due to the planet Jupiter, which 

 caused a recession of the node to the extent of a little over 4. 

 The Andromedes are totally different from the Leonids, for the 

 Andromedes move more slowly, having virtually to overtake the 



