A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OP LUMINOUS METEORS. 



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tlie_ Stelvio Pass (N. lat. 46° 30', long. E. 9° 55'). Directed from some 

 radiant-point in the southern part of Ophiuehus, or Scorpius, 

 (18.) Fireball; 1864, August 26th, 11" O"" p.m. 

 Observed at Hay (South Wales), Wolverhampton, and Grantham (see 

 Catalogue). Path, 110 miles in 5 seconds. Velocity, twenty-two miles per 

 second. Direction, from azimuth W. from S. 330°, altitude 45°. Eegau 100 

 miles above Monmouth (N. lat. 51° 50', long. 2° 43' W.) ; disappeared twenty 

 miles above Barmouth, in North Wales (N. lat. 52° 43', long. 4° 4' W.). The 

 height at first appearance is affected by considerable errors of observation. 



II. Meteoric Shower of August 1864. 

 The annual display was less abundant than in 1863, and the meteors of 

 the 9th and 10th of August did not exceed the ordinary scale of the phe- 

 nomenon, either in numbers, brilliancy, or uniformity of direction. One 

 meteor only was simultaneously observed at Greenwich Observatory and at 

 Hawkhurst. 



1864, August 9th, 11" 3" G.M.T. 



* In the last column but one of Table III., p. 330 of the Eeport for 1863, the decimal 

 pomt is misjjlaced, and the weights in the last column of that Table are ten times larger 

 than the truth. 



