A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 



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July. 



Eemaeks. 



January 1st and 2nd, overcast at night ; 3rd, 9-10 p.m., cloitdy, with 

 raiu; lightning in N.N.W. horizon at 10" 5'", sky clear after 10 r.M. ; no 

 meteors in three-quarters of an hour. 



April 15th, lO^-ll" p.m. and after, fine display of Aurora Borealis ; 

 streamers, pink, green, and crimson colours, reached and radiated from the 

 zenith, seen simultaneously in the U. S., America. 



The Meteoric Slioiver of April 20. 



There was a pronounced display of Meteors on this date at the rate of four 

 meteors per hour for one observer, showing no tendency to maximum further 

 than an absence on the succeeding night. The night was clear and moon- 

 light after 10'', moon 1st qr. There was no prominent radiant, but a feeble 

 emission from seven or eight radiants common to the month, and mentioned 

 in the list of meteors. 



July 15th and 16th, from 10" 30" till 11" 30™ p.m., sky cloudy at times, 

 remaining clear about zenith ; no meteors seen. 17th and 18th, overcast at 

 10" 30" P.M. 19th, sky clear, moonlight 10" 30^-llh ; no meteors. 



Notices of Meteors from Newspapers, 1869. 



An aijrolitic fall in Sweden, mid-day, January 1st. 



Large meteor (?) seen at Weston-super-Mare, Jan. 3rd. — " A meteor of 

 unusually bright appearance between the hours of 9 and 10 shot from the 

 heavens and disappeared beneath the waves. So vivid and instantaneous 

 was the appearance and disappearance of the meteor that, although seen by 

 a nimiber of persons, there were many speculations as to its real nature. 

 Many, by whom the reflection alone was seen, were of opinion that it was 

 a vivid flash of lightning, whilst others thought it a rocket of unusual mag- 

 nitude." — Bristol Daily Post. 



Jan. 13, 1.20 a.m. — A bright meteor observed at Brighton in W. of K ; 

 two detonations in three minutes ; meteor calctilated, according to sound, to 

 have burst thirty miles from observer. — Writer in ' Standard,' Jan. 14. 



The same seen at Hampton, rising in N". Colour, indigo. — Writer in 

 ' Standard.' 



April 3rd, between 4" and 5" a.m., a large meteor seen in Scotland. (See 

 enclosed paragraph from ' Lloyd's IS'ews,' and various other papers.) 



May 31, 11.5 p.m., a large meteor seen at Norfolk, also at London. (See 

 ' The Times ' of June 2nd and 3rd, also the ' Standard ' of June 3rd, and 

 other papers.) 



