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A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 3 
OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 
Direction; noting also 
Length of | whether Horizontal, 
Path. Perpendicular, or 
Inclined. 
ppearance; Train, if any, 
and its Viale. Remarks. Observer. 
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ite train 8° in length] ? .....,seee../Appeared im the N.We..|,;ccoresssersssceccessceceeses ‘Personal _ac- 
attended the nucleus. counts to W. 
Burst into sparks which Ii. Wood. 
continued 3. seconds, 
advancing 10° before 
they disappeared. 
x a blunted or spread|. 
tail 14 or 20 times longer 
than the head. 
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ssseseneeeereee/DOWnwards at an angle/Point of observation Charles Reed. 
of 25° to the horizon.| was facing the Na-, 
tional Gallery, near 
the top of Parliament 
Street. 
hortly before disappear-|About 90°../First horizontal, then!....... Pate Fase roisk veevaees Mrs. E. Addison. 
ing threw off a part of declining slightly. 
its substance, which 
followed it closely like a 
lesser luminary till both 
were suddenly extin- 
guished in a sudden and 
peculiar manner in clear 
sky. A track of light 
endured for some se- 
[of Argyll. 
TERE LCE akhabeqenanlea cigceande OUNCEERC Ares enddetclegecencccccctuccedegdades alte Howe ; Duke 
ppeared in "mid-air, 60° coprecceo{HOFiZONtAl, OF VELY|.qeeeyecesececeagedecpueoneces John Borough. 
like a Roman candle slightly "declining at 
ball ; but the train which last. 
pursued it did not look 
exactly like sparks. 
ajestic,” Left a track 
of light behind it, but 
2 seseseseeeee/Came over from the|Open bayrwindow faced|Mrs. Davies. 
right of the house,| N.N.E 
no sparks till just before descending as a rocket 
‘it disappeared, when one in the form of an 
arch. 
: was cast off from 
re 
? sesseyeoees. Quite horizontal; from|.:....sssececscesseeseraeeseee{Me Me 
left to right. 
He) eecsbeswais Horizontal, Or —Very|c.<sagyeveectev dds. seeeesseees |G. H. Chambers. 
slightly inclined to- 
wards the earth. 
Bidens cbeaess: ‘Slightly declining; per-/Point of observation|H. H. Bemyrose. 
haps curved down-| upon the sands mid. 
wards. way between Pen- 
maen-Mawr and Pen- 
maen-Vach. 
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