OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 301 
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RMS Naaaancsel nse «sen doueseiah desessoeceess soeeeee-|Left a slight streak.....ssseeseeseeee/J. Neale and other ob- 
servers. (Communi- 
cated by J. E. Clark.) 
[About 140°|[Nearly due W. to E.] .........|First observed as a bright star/G. Yates, ; 
or 150°.] rising slantingly; burst al-| (‘ Astronomical Re- 
most immediately like aj gister,’ March 1874.) 
rocket without scattering to 
any extent, and increasing 
continuously from the first 
in brightness, long before 
reaching its mid course, lit 
up the whole country with 
a greenish light. Twenty or 
more fragments were visible, 
i all greenish, moving in pa- 
rallel courses, the two or 
three largest in the centre 
leading. Each nucleus left 
a red train, forming toge- 
ther a huge band across 
the sky that remained bright 
for some time, and at last 
broke up into an irregular 
heavy line and into small 
detached clouds, which only 
disappeared upwards of an 
hour afterwards in the 
rays of the rising sun. 
Three and a half minutes 
after the disappearance of 
the meteor, a loud report | 
followed, as of many distant 
cannons, that shook the 
ground and rolled on in | 
reverberations for some time ; 
| 
; until it died away like 
f distant thunder. Many 
| were awakened by the 
report; and the meteor 
was seen at Shujabad, but 
no accurate accounts of its 
appearance could be obtained 
there. 
Jesssereessseseeee(Fell vertically; undeterminedjAnother meteor, almost as/T, H. Waller. 
radiant-point. bright, followed it in the 
same part of the sky at 
7» 18" pm, and another 
was seen at 105 30™ p.m, by 
other observers. | 
Hee eeeeeeseeres eeelens Sree eet OP ereeeeeeerseteeeeecereetens During the evening a number 
‘ of small meteors were ob- 
served. ‘ Meteorological 
Journal for 1873,’ by C. L. 
Prince. 
