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ball flashed through a misty break of the clouds in Leo, leaving all again in 

 darkness " f. 



(5.) The January meteoric shower, in 1867. 



Heavy snow, and the overcast state of the sky in England on the night of 

 the 1st and morning of the 2nd of January 1867, prevented observations of 

 luminous meteors. On the evening of the 2nd of January, about 9^ 30™ p.m., 

 when the sky was comparatively clear, Mr. Crumplen watched for meteors for 

 a few minutes, in Loudon, and saw none. 



(6.) The April meteoric shower, in 1SG7. 



On the nights of the 19th and 20th of April 1867, the sky was overcast, 

 with constant rain, at Glasgow. No reports of the reappearance of the April 

 meteoric shower, in 1867 have been received from other places. 



(7.) The August meteors, in 1867. 



Ki Birmingliam, Mr. "Wood reports a verj^ fine sky on the nights of the 9th, 

 11th, and 12th. On the night of the 10th the sky was clear over head until 

 1*^ 30™ A.M. on the morning of the 11th. 



From 9'' p.m. to 11'' 32™ p.m. on the 9th, only two meteors were observed 

 in one hour and a half. Their number then increased, and the paths of 18 

 meteors were recorded in two hours. There was an equal scarcity of meteors 

 on the night of the 10th ; when, in one hour, from 9*' p.m. to 10"^ p.m. no 

 meteors were observed. The interval of half an hour, from 12'' 16™ to 12'' 45'" 

 a.m. on the morning of the 11th, also presented a total absence of meteors. 

 Five meteors were then observed in 15 minutes, and the sky afterwards be- 

 came overcast. On the nights of the 11th and 12th the rate of apparition was 

 respectively 3 and 2 meteors per hour. On the morning of the 11th it was 

 as high as 7, and on the morning of the 10th as high as 14 per hour. 



Date and . 

 hour of 

 obser- 

 vation 



Average - 

 number 

 of me- 

 teors per 

 hour . . - 



Moon nearly full. One observer. 



The frequenej-, under similar cicumstances, is little more than half as great 



as that observed by Mr. Wood in the previous August epoch of 1866. 



A wide radiant area, extending from y Persei to C, c, and I Camelopardi, as 



distinct radiants, is assigned by Mr. Wood to the recorded paths ; with a 



tendency to radiate chiefly from a principal radiant-point at e Cassiopeise. 

 The relative proportions of meteors of difi^erent magnitudes and colours 



were aboiit as follows : — 





8th 



P.M. 



6 



10 



14 



Above 

 1st mag*. 



J. _ 



6 - 3 



At MancJiester.- 



= 1st- 



= 2na- 



inng*. 

 1 



mag*. 

 1 



Yellow or 

 orange. 



= 3rdO 



mag*. I Blue. orange. White. 



4 5 J 8 10 iO 



Greg reports that the meteors appeared rather to 



t Monthly Notices of the Eoyal Astronomical Society, vol. xxvii. p. 205, 



-Mr. 



