A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 29 



sky was clear, when about 7.30 p.m. (Irish time ?) a meteor, at first about the 

 size of a star of the first magnitude, swiftly approached from the direction of 

 the Pleiades; itadvanccd rapidly, increasing in size,foraboutfourorfiveseconds, 

 giving out an intensely white light ; at the end of that time it changed colour 

 to a bright ruby-red, and then it seemed to change its course as well as to 

 lose velocity ; almost immediately after that it burst into fifteen or sixteen 

 bright-green particles that remained visible some two seconds more, and then 

 altogether disappeared. The whole phenomenon lasted perhaps eight seconds ; 

 its direction was about N.W. or N.N.W.* 



* There can be little doubt that these two observations related to one and the same meteor. 



