A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 
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. ' Direction ; noting also 
arance ; Train, if any,| Length of | whether Horizontal d z 
Rand its Duration. Path. Perpendicular, or Remarks. earch: 
Inclined. 
light tail of red sparks!20° ......... At right angles to thel....... tates cites beetedins Zamna» K. E. Rufenacht. 
ursued the head. Milky Way. 
Magnificent MetCOT 5|,..,.seceereeelscsscseceesveeeeseceeseeseesee{LHe sun had not quite/Communicated 
ucleus surrounded by gone down at the} by W.H. Wood. 
halo, and attended appearance of this 
y a short train of meteor. : 
parks ; disappeared 
ithout sparks. 
appeared in the openl..,...see.e++.| Vertically down ......+. a Lyre appeared 30°\Rev., F. Howlett. 
ky; globular; no from its point of 
parks ; enveloped in a commencement. 
aint light. 
tail or sparks.......0+00+|..0ec0e0eeee0e+(Inclined Cownwards|.seresserree ad qasdeasanane coe H. Moreland. 
from left to right. 
appeared gradually PPPS PESTO P PO e Teer r rrr eerreririrerrr ir ee Communicated 
thout sparks, by W. H. Wood. 
Hiant, although the/7° or 8° .,.|E. to W. v.ssseeeeeeceeeeee(L Was prevented from/J. Moore. 
wilight was sufficient observing the be- 
read by. ginning of its path 
by a __ projecting 
building near the 
window at which 1 
was sitting. 
BSE PATE Of — its).as.ssaressenne|NoNoE- to S.S.W.5 felll-ccossscepsoareesereesepaoeeeo(H. S. C., Corre- 
escent the tail length- downwards. spondent to 
ned, but just before the ‘ Stand- 
ts disappearance, col- ard.’ 
and gathered 
elf into the nucleus, 
endering that much 
arger and brighter. 
the same point of the path had altitude 20° in due N.E. The latter lines of 
sight approach within eleven miles of each other, eighty-eight miles due E. 
of Newcastle, and forty-four miles above the sea. It is probable, from the 
account of Mrs. Davies, that the meteor first appeared somewhat S. of the 
latitude of Dunkirk, and that the entire path of 395 or 400 miles was per- 
formed in not less than ten to twelve seconds of time. 
II. Meteor, 1861, July 16th, 11" 32™ p.m. G.M.T. 
_ Avsimilar comparison of the catalogued accounts of this meteor assigns its 
path with somewhat greater certainty at 300 miles of length, from 195 miles 
_ over North Foreland to sixty-five miles above the sea, sixty miles S. of Ply- 
mouth. The meteor passed the Isle of Wight at a height of 150 miles; and 
here a durable tail first began to be developed from the nucleus. The dura- 
tion of the flight was five to six seconds, at the largest estimation. 
