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APPENDIX. 



I. Meteors doubly obseryed. 



(1.) 1865, September 24th, 7" 8™ 45^ p.m., G. M. T, 



The meteor observed at Greenwich, Kamsgate, and Hawkhiu'st (see Cata- 

 logue), commenced its course sixty-seven miles above the coast of France, in 

 the zenith of a place in N. lat. 49° 57', E. long. 2° 12', and disappeared 

 thirty-eight miles above the English Channel, in N. lat. 50° 26',_E. long. 0° 

 23'. Path ninety-one miles in four seconds, dii-ected from a point in E. A. 

 2°, N. Docl. 2°, near the first point of Aries. Velocity twenty-three miles 

 per second. The meteor is a good example, triply observed, of the group of 

 meteors directed from the radiant in Pisces or Cetus, described in the 

 Monthly Notices of the Eoyal Astronomical iSociety for December 9th, 1864. 



(2.) 1865, September 24th, 8" 30" p.m., G. M. T. 



The meteor observed at Greenwich and at Manchester, at From e in Devon- 

 shire, and at Winchfield in Hants, commenced its course thu'ty-four miles in 

 the zenith of a place seven miles east of Bath, and disappeared thirty miles 

 above a point four miles south of Gloucester. 



The course of the meteor, prolonged onwards, would nearly touch lEan- 

 chester, where it was seen to descend with a slight inclination, and a short 

 course in the S.S.AV. This observation necessitates a small correction. The 

 course appears actually to have been from thirty-eight miles over Bath to 

 twenty-seven miles over Gloucester. Velocity twenty-four miles per second. 

 Path thirty-six miles in 1^ second, directed from some part of the C(mstellu- 

 tion Capricornus, not far from a point in right ascension 20'', south declination 

 30°, described by Dr. Neumayer, at Melbourne, as a point of the highest in- 

 terest, and deserving particular attention with the view of determining further 

 points of radiation. 



(3.) 1865, September 26th, 8^ 55™ p.m., G.M.T. 

 The meteor observed at Thirsk, in Yorkshu-e, and at Hawkhurst, com- 

 menced its course about 107 miles above a part of the North Sea, in N. lat. 

 54° 55', E. long. 2° 43', and disappeared seventy-six miles above the neigh- 

 bourhood of Sheineld. Path 200 miles in Si seconds. Velocity fifty- seven 

 miles per second. Direction from a point near Auriga, in right ascension 69°, 

 north declination 25°, This meteor is one of a group of meteors directed from 

 a radiant in Auriga, described in the last-mentioned Number of the Monthly 

 Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. It appears from this No., and 

 from No. 1 of this Appendix, that the velocity of the meteors from Auriga is 

 nearly three times as great as that of the meteors directed from Cetus or 

 Pisces. 



(4.) 1865, September 26th, 9" 21'" p.m., G.M.T. 

 Notes of the meteor, seen by Mr. Harding, of the Eoyal Observatory, Green- 

 wich, on the evening of the 26th of September last, were received, first, from 

 Eastbourne, and second, from Weston-super-Mare, in Somersetshire. Over 

 the latter county it appears to have attained its greatest brilliancy ; but at 

 what altitude above the earth can only be roughly estimated from the obser- 

 vation at Eastbourne, compared with that near Greenwich. The height indi- 

 cated is from about fifty to about thirty miles above the surface of the earth. 

 The radiant-point, or direction of its flight, was from about the position 

 of Polaris, a region from which a wide group o| meteors take their course in 



