bar of light remained 
about 20 seconds after 
the first appearance of 
the meteor. 
rlike meteor; became 
suddenly extinct, leav- 
ing a bar of red 
light 25° in length, 
fluctuating between 
red and orange, and 
lasting 8 seconds until 
disappearance. 
0 explosion; long di- 
stinct train of light, 
disappearing slowly like 
smouldering twine. 
1 turning round, two 
bars of white light 
were seen, which en- 
dured fifteen seconds. 
aded sooner than the 
north. 
vo flashes like lightning, 
then ran along the ho- 
izon in one long broad 
ine, which 
wrens POPC ewer oeserees 
track left ........00. 
Dl eeee 
Overcast with haze ...!., 
covered with thick 
aze, 
tee eeereeeees 
eee tere tenes 
Sere eeeeeens 
Sebo reese ens 
Perpendicular to ho- 
rizon. 
...{Perpendicular to ho- 
Direction ; noting also 
ppearance ; Train, ifany,) Length of | whether Horizontal, 18 
and its Duration. Path. Perpendicular, or Remarks 
Inclined. 
O track left; no sparks...J15° .....06../EYOm Polaris .sssecessssseccessescssvvescnsneeresees ne 
Light train ..,.00.4,..seeeeeeleceeseeeeeeeees An the N., fell from thel..... svaiiebgn@utienlen tes essai 
behind the houses. 
horizon. 
pressed 2° or 3°. 
..(From E. to W. by S. 
....,/Slightly inclined to the|Jupiter 
horizon. 
position, 
especially to the S. 
? sesseseeeees/A little inclined ...,...../Sky obscured at 10 p.m. 
cal; down. 
Perpendicular 
horizon. 
Directed from .o Urse 
Majoris. 
rizon. 
zenith, disappearing 
E. to W,, at an angle of|The tail faded gradually, 
about 80° with the 
E. to W., nearly hori-lcsccecsscccoosscnsesscovarves 
zontal; west end de- 
To left; 30° from verti-|, 
to the}.. 
A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 
no change. 
streeeeecevesererssussereesess Studley Martin. 
appeared 
shine brighter when 
the bars disappeared 
than he did before. 
Parallel to the horizon,|/The stars seemed to go| James 
yet in a descending 
inclining 
out on that side of 
the hemisphere, and 
did not recover their 
brightness for half an 
hour, 
One star in an hour;/A 
N.W.; cloudless. 
Fell one per hour 
-|A. S. Herschel. 
to/T. Juman. 
W. H. Wood. 
Id. 
Id. 
W. H. Wood. 
Id. 
53 
Observer. 
J. MacDonald. 
Correspondent to 
‘ Liverpool 
Mercury.’ 
W. H. Wood. 
Caswell 
and Son. 
Sebo merece eeeeaenes 
. S. Herschel. 
