A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 349 
\ Direction ; noting also 
Appearance ; Train, if any,! Length of | whether Horizontal, A. , 
} and its Duration. Path. Perpendicular, or Remarks. Observer. 
into seven parts, each 
part as bright as a 2nd 
| mag. star. 
| 
| 
FORTE ETE e Eee ereeeeeeretsetess 
Twenty-eight 
shooting- 
Stars. 
Train 4° long 
Peet eee eererens 
‘Left a bright white streak 
for 15 seconds. 
- 
veld 
POPE Peer eee eee ee eee eesesenn 
hundreds of smaller 
Meteors moving  to- 
- gether; left a streak of 
_ light for some time. 
Left a bright broad streak, 
which remained visible 
_ three minutes. 
all of fire, followed by 
a streaming fiery tail. 
aie 
, a 
4 
, 
FEPEOO eee eeeeeeeeeeereseeten: 50° 
WE 
The nucleus divided itsclf|,..... 
Consisted apparently of... 
eee eereee 
eee werereeeees ** 
Fee eee eneres 
Die sacsesass 
Inclined. 
s|Erom S:/t0) Niscccossss eee 
[From precisely the 
WG Radiant.—R. P. 
Greg. ] 
One eee taneeeneeene 
SOMO Ree eee ee tere eeeeeeesens 
Directed from the usual 
Radiant-point in Per- 
seus [? from Pegasus]. 
see eee Oo eee 
TPR OE Oeste rere este te ee eeey 
|Four drawings, and a de- 
-..The meteor seemed to 
ek i re rs 
Produced a flash like 
lightning; thirty or 
forty seconds after- 
wards a report like 
distant thunder was 
heard. 
“There seemed to be 
a tendency to radi- 
ate from a region 
north of Aquarius, 
with a sudden radi-| 
ance. Midway, it| 
paused, and seemed 
fading away, but im- 
mediately afterwards 
it resumed its course 
with increased bril- 
liancy. 
pass below the clouds, 
in the §S.E., which 
were not more than 
1000 feet above the! 
‘Année Scienti- 
fique,’ of M. 
Figurier, for 
1867, p. 38. 
M. Bellanger ; 
Ibid. 
Prof. Hewitt and 
Mr. Gaines, 
Am. Journ. 
Sci., 2, xliv., 
between that con-| 199, 
stellation and Pe- 
gasus.” 
ener as cesta « eevee cesseveeeee(American Journ. 
of Science, 
1867. 
Cees eeaaeeceeseeaerenes -...(M, Rias, © An- 
née Scienti- 
fique’ for 1867, 
p- 42. 
From W.-to. Ts %:.2..4:. sHreereeseseeeseeseeesseteeene/M. Negrier, 
Ibid. p. 43. 
Moved in the direction/The light of the meteor/M. Ducal, 
from Amboise to) was seen as far as| Ibid. p- 42. 
Tours. Pocé. 
D. Ragona, 
scriptionof the'streakof, ‘Meteorologia 
this meteor accompany| Italiana,’ Sup- 
D. Ragona’s Report on| plement, 1867. 
the August meteors in 
1867 (see App. II.). 
Lighted up the road|Edinburgh 
‘ Courant.’ 
‘Année Scienti- 
fique’ for 1867, 
p- 43. 
earth. 
