A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 
Te aa SSS SSS 
earance; Train, if any, 
and its Duration. Path. 
eak train of greenish 
lour. Disappeared 
ddenly. 
orm motion and ap- 
arance. No tail or 
arks. 
PRESS e OTE eee ee ee eee eaee Fete eeneeeeaes 
1 at first and like a 
ndle - flame. Then 
panded to a brilliant 
lite ball near the 
on, sparks flying from 
derneath, like a horn. 
Sappeared gradually 
low the horizon as a 
1 ball the size of a hat, 
thout sparks. 
st globular; at last 
a rainbow-coloured 
am behind it (like a 
1et’s) consisting of 
brilliant light. No 
from it at disap- 
ince, for it did not 
but was lost sight 
r resembling a 
leaving a long 
with sparks, 
it. 
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eee eee eee ee eee eres 
POPP RO OO reer eee re eet etinnnees eeeee ee 
Length of 
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weet eeeeenees 
train of sparks ......}. pescs¥abeseure 
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Direction ; noting also | 
whether Horizontal, i r 
Perpendicular, or Remarks. Observer. 
Inclined. | 
.| Downwards towards the No detonation............ ‘Communicated 
right ; 40° from hori- by Dr, O. 
zontal. Buchner. 
|S. to N. ; horizontal ...|............. SPRITE TR A. 8. Herschel. 
U[essdawssdedsocues UettUsace ott s Coeccvesccsccccsssoneess| Le Mackereth, 
.|Came nearly from the)..,,,,...... eceete ct J. Birch;  T. 
Pole, or from the end Humphrey; F. 
of the Great Bear’s Reeves ; Je 
tail; or from altitude Jeffrey. 
142°, 12° E. from N. Communicated 
It was descending at by A. S. Her- 
a slope of 233° to the schel. 
horizon when it disap- 
peared. 
Downwards towards the]........s..se 
right, 50° from hori- 
zontal. 
Seer eeeeeetetans 
About W.N.W.toE.S.E.,|Full moon; no clouds,| Communicated 
in a very low transit.| but a hazy atmo-| by F. W. 
sphere. Gough, R.N. 
Descended gradually ...|......ssssssesseeeesseeeeees5.| COMMunication 
by T.W. Webb. 
N. to S., in a slanting 
direction towards the 
Full moon effaced the Communicated 
stars, but meteor| by J. Glaisher. 
eclipsed the moon. 
i Cuvewsomacuenedsdaedetacet|ussarten seeeseesesseeesseseese/COMMunicated 
by T. Crump- 
len. 
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