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radiant of the Leonids; its motion being from south-west to north-east. A 
fragment is in the collection of Prof. Shepard, of Amherst, Massachusetts. 
(g.) The meteoric phenomena of this date are thus described in the cata- 
logue of Mr. Greg: ‘‘Seen in the southern sky. Varied in color ; a bright 
cloud visible one and a half hours after; according to some a detonation 
heard fifteen minutes after bursting. Seen also like a stream of fire between 
Tunis and Tripoli, where a shower of stones fell; some of them in the 
town of Tripoli itself.’’ 
(h.) This fire-ball appeared on the same evening or night.—Greg’s cata- 
logue. 
(i.) This aerolite fell at Trezano. A fragment is in the collection of Pro- 
fessor Shepard. 
(j.) A large meteor was seen by Professor Robert C. Hindley, of Racine, 
Wisconsin, on Sunday evening, November 11th, at three minutes past six 
o'clock (Chicago time?). This meteor is thus described by Professor H. in 
the Scientific American for December 1, 1877: ‘‘ Direction N. N. E.; alti- 
tude at commencement of course about 30° ; length of course from 10° to 
12°; time of falling about 8 seconds. It fell towards the west, making an 
angle in falling to the earth of about 65° with the vertical passing through 
the body. During the latter three-fourths of its course, its length, inclu- 
“ding the luminous trail, was about one-half of a degree. The nucleus was 
very brilliant ; its color at first a yellowish-white, then a light green, and 
lastly, a greenish-yellow. Could its color have been due to boron, thal- 
lium, &c.? I find no record in any of the numerous analyses of meteoric 
stones of the presence of elements likely to give the green color.”’ 
On the following evening, November 12th, at 6h. 36m. (Memphis time), 
Frank L. James, Ph. D., M. D., of Osceola, Arkansas, saw another meteor 
in the same part of the heavens, and in some respects so strikingly resem- 
bling that observed in Wisconsin, that he was disposed, on reading Prof. 
Hindley’s description, to think they had observed the same phenomenon, 
and that one or the other had mistaken the date. I have, however, corres- 
ponded with both the gentlemen, and have found that the meteors were 
seen on different evenings. ‘‘The date is fixed,’’ says Dr.James,’’ not only 
by my own ‘case-record’ but by that of a friend and brother physician who 
assisted me in an amputation on the previous day.’’ The following 
account of the Arkansas meteor is extracted from Dr. J’s communication 
in the Scientific American for December 29th, 1877: ‘‘I was startled by a 
sudden glare of light which seemed to come from right in front of me. 
Throwing up my eyes I saw a large and very brilliant meteor in the north- 
east, falling apparently nearly straight downward, with a slight deviation 
to the east. When I first saw the meteor it was about 30° in height, and 
judging from the length of time it took to travel the remainder of its 
course, it must already have fallen 3° or 4°. It fell through an arc of about 
12° or 15° in all, and was about ten seconds in falling. When I first saw it 
it had a golden hue which suddenly changed to green, of that peculiar 
shade produced by burning chlorate of potash with nitrate of barium and 
