A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 



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Appearance; Train, if any. 

 and its Duration. 



Left a short train 

 Train 



Conical; increased as it 

 descended. Burst with 

 a shower of sparlcs. 



Left a transient streak, 

 brightest and broadest 

 in the middle. 



Left a train 



No train or sparks 



Fine train ; lasted one 

 second after meteor's 

 disappearance. 



Brightest at middle of its 

 course. 



Faint train 



Ijcft a golden-yellow train 



Slight train . 



Length of 

 Path. 



Direction ; noting also 



whether Horizontal, 



Perpendicular, or 



Inclined. 



Short paths 



Left a long sparkling train 



No train or sparks 



No train or sparks 



No observed uniformity 



of direction. 

 Directed from (3 Pe- 



gasi. 



Inclination 

 W. E. 



N.N.E. to S.S.W , 



Down the following 

 branch of the Milky 

 Way. 



Directed from « Dra- 

 conis. 



Remarks. 



Observer. 



A great number of small 

 meteors all night. 



T. M. Simkiss. 

 W. C. Nash. 



Id. 



From W.S.W. to E.N.E. 



Bright and steady 



General direction to- 

 wards j8 Tauri. 



' Galignani.' 



T. W. Webb. 



Id. 



T. M. Simkiss. 

 W. C. Nash. 



T. W. Webb. 

 W. C. Nash. 





Communicated 

 by A. S. Her- 

 schel. 



Id. 



Id. 



T. M. Simkiss. 

 W. H. Wood. 



T. M. Simkiss. 



W. 



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