404: REPORT—1868. 
Mr. Greg having undertaken the projection of M. Zezioli’s observations 
on the appropriate gnomonic star-charts of the British Association, several 
new radiants were discovered, and the positions and durations of old ones 
were found to be confirmed, and of others to require only inconsiderable cor- 
rections, of which the shortness of the nights and the consequent scarcity of 
meteor-observations in England during the summer months had hitherto 
prevented the determination with precision. 
The preceding list of radiant-points of the northern hemisphere, corrected 
and enlarged, by means of the additional observations, from that formerly 
printed in these Reports (for 1864, p. 99), is extracted from a new edition 
of the Atlas of plane-perspective Meteor-charts (for 1868) of the Luminous- 
Meteor Committee of the British Association, which will, this year, be offered 
for sale by members of the Committee, at the price of lithographing copies of 
the Atlas, or of single charts, according to the wants and occasional require- 
ments of observers *. 
Besides the observations of shooting-stars now mentioned, which M. 
Schiaparelli has lately published in the Milan ‘ Ephemeris of Astronomy,’ 
three memoirs on shooting-stars observed in Piedmont during the August 
and November star-showers of 1866-67, by Father F. Denza, Director of 
the Observatory at Moncalieri, near Turin, contain useful abstracts of obser- 
vations, and notices of recent papers on meteoric astronomy, together with 
instructions for future systematic observations of meteors at various stations 
in Piedmont. 
The following list of radiant-points in the southern hemisphere (p. 405), 
compiled by Professor Heis from nearly 2000 observations of shooting-stars 
made by Dr. Neumayer at the Flagstaff Observatory at Melbourne, is taken 
from the Table at the end of the third of Father Denza’s memoirs +. No 
great star-shower was recorded by Dr. Neumayer as having been seen at 
Melbourne during the period of five years (1858-63) in which the observa- 
tions were carried on. 
Professor Heis regards the observations discussed and reduced in this list 
as of peculiar importance, on account of the care with which the apparent 
paths and the apparent size, colour, duration, &c. of the meteors were 
recorded. Thirty-five new radiant-points are developed in the southern 
hemisphere, and the positions of four previously established radiant-points 
(S,, 05 426) are corroborated, by the observations, and are included in the 
southern list. Some of the radiant groups sufficiently resemble those obtained 
by Professor Heis as the result of his own indefatigable labours in the 
northern hemisphere, or those assigned for the same hemisphere by Mr. Greg, 
so as to make in these cases a further investigation of especial interest. 
* The sale of the maps, at a rather higher price (owing to the expense of drawing three 
new charts and relithographing the ol! plates for the new edition of the Atlas) than 
would make them accessible to the majority of observers, was this year begun at Norwich, 
by the agents (Messrs. Taylor and Francis) for the sale of the volumes of these Reports. 
Four copies of the Atlas were thus sold to members of the Association at Norwich; and 
the remaining sixteen copies struck off for the occasion of the Meeting, to represent this 
edition of the Atlas, are kept on hand for the use of British and foreign observers, for whom . 
the price is reduced to 25s. for a single copy. The Committee are unable to offer copies 
to observers at a lower price, on account of the large number of copies of the Meteor-Atlas 
which were last year sent, gratis, to the foregoing destinations (see the list on p. 400). 
+ Le Stelle Cadenti osservate in Piemonte. Del P. Francesco Denza, B., Memorie 1, 2, 3. 
Torino, 1867-68. 
{ The original memoir of Drs. Heis and Neumayer, “On Meteors in the Southern 
Hemisphere ” (4to, Mannheim, 1867), is extracted from Dr. G. Neumayer’s “ Discussion of 
the Meteorological and Magnetical Observations made at the Flagstaff Observatory at Mel- 
bourne.” 
