A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 
i. Train, if any,| Length of 
and its Duration. 
e a globe of phos- 
horus driving a dark- 
oloured head or bolt 
urning before it. Left a 
olden thread behind it. 
urst with a crackling 
ppearance. 
t no permanent streak, 
ut sparks only, upon a 
ort train, 
elongated, intensely 
lue pear-shapes, raced 
ht like that of a 
ece of white-hot iron 
ought out of asmith’s 
ged from red to blue, 
d again to red, when 
ppeared, 
shape, or like Prince 
pert’s drop. A train 
red sparks left in the 
©; no coloured balls 
nm to drop from the 
- Cone milky white, 
Sphorescent, or dim 
Omparison. A train 
uddy sparks, lasting 
3 seconds, followed 
meteor. Large blue 
SScattering yellowish 
» Which burst into 
ks, fell perpendicu- 
light most}. 
Path. 
see eeeeeeteteens 
see eerereteees 
from the head. 
N.E. by N. to S.W. by S. 
Azimuths doubtful; but 
Path perpendicular to 
233 
Direction ; noting also 
whether Horizontal, 
Perpendicular, or 
Inclined. 
./Sloped gently down to- 
wards the W. 
EE Peer Almost horizontal, 
slightly inclining 
downwards. 
altitudes correct, by 
house roofs, &c. 
hee eaten eer eeees eee eneeeee 
the line of the moon’s 
cusps. Produced 
backwards, would 
have passed halfway 
between Mars and the 
moon. 
Remarks. 
eee eee eee re ey Fe eeeeerees 
Atte t eee eens Fonte ee reeeeere 
Although the moon (7 
days old) was ex- 
tremely bright and 
clear, its light was 
lessened by the 
meteor. 
increased in size, but 
not uniformly, an oc- 
casional decrease in 
size and _ brightness 
taking place. Mo- 
mentary checks in the 
velocity each time 
that it discharged a 
shower of balls. It 
vanished at its maxi- 
mum brightness, not 
bursting, but as if 
going behind 
opaque body. 
some 
. 
Observer. 
G. Brown (Deal 
Telegram). 
Rey. G. Ilyffe. 
Writer in ‘The 
Standard.’ 
--/James Rock, Jun. 
Francis Cotterell. 
Writer in ‘The 
Morning Star.’ 
H. P. Finlayson. 
....{The meteor gradually|E. J. Lowe. 
