REPORTS 
ON 
THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 
Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1861-62. By a 
Committee, consisting of James GuatsHer, F.R.S., F.R.A.S., 
Secretary to the British Meteorological Society, &c.; R. P. Gree, 
F.G.S. &c.; E. W. Brayuey, F.R.S. &c.; and A. HerscHE.. 
Tae Committee are indebted to Members of the Association and to other 
° observers for a larger number of observations bearing upon individual 
meteors than has fallen to their lot to assemble during previous years. They 
may be counted as follows:—(A) Meteor 1, July 16th, eight accounts; (B) 
meteor 2, July 16th, thirteen accounts; (C) meteor, August 6th, three ac- 
counts; (D) meteor, November 12th, eight accounts ; (E) meteor, November 
19th, eleven accounts; (F) meteor, December 8th, twenty-eight accounts ; 
(G) meteor, February 2nd, 1862, eleven accounts; (H) meteor, February 
23rd, 1862, five accounts. Of the small shooting-stars, double observations 
only are found. The discussion of these observations follow the Catalogue 
in Appendix I. 
Eight accounts of one and thirteen of the second of the meteors visible on 
the evening of July 16th, 1861, show those of the Duke of Argyll and Mr. 
Frost to have been distinct meteors, succeeding each other with an interval 
of more than an hour. The accounts are embodied in the present Catalogue, 
and the results discussed in Appendix I. 
Of the meteor August 6th, a further account from excellent observers in 
London, has afforded a good determination ; the accounts and their interpre- 
tation are presented in the Catalogue and Appendix I. 
Numerous accurate observations of shooting-stars of the 10th August, period 
_ 1861, too voluminous for separate insertion in the Catalogue, haye been col- 
lected and examined for accordances, and the accordant observations only 
entered in the Catalogue, together with individual observations which ap- 
_ peared of particular interest from among the entire number; the resalts of 
the accordant observations are tabulated in Appendix I, 
1862, onan 
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