344: 
Square 39. 
February. (Long. 
REPORT—1874. 
W. 20°-30°, lat. N. 10°-20°, enclosing the Cape-Verd 
Islands. ) 
(The following are all that were remarked on in February.) 
| Sub-square.| Hour. | Day. Year. Remarks on Falling Stars. 
601 f 8 PM. 6th ia Shooting-stars from N.N.E. to 8.8.W., one a 
; beautiful meteor. 
| 41 aot 7th One shooting-star from E. to W. 
| 49 7 pM. 10th A yellow, red, and blue meteor shot from §.E. 
to N.W. ’ 
85 ? 14th 1860 | Several small meteors to the eastward falling 
8.W. 
75 2am. | 19th 1860 | Two stars in 8.E. shooting to the westward. 
a 4 AM. Pi ie Two or three stars in the 8.E. shooting to the 
south-westward. 
13 8pm. | 21st A star in the N.W. shot to the northward 
down to the horizon. 
11 P.M. A star above head shot to the south-eastward. 
Square 40. February., (Long. W. 30°-40°, lat. N. 10°-20°, W. of the Cape-Verd 
Islands.) 
(The following is the cnly remark on falling stars in February.) 
| 21 | 6.30 P.M. 
eastward, visible in daylight. 
28th | 1871 | A very bright meteor passed to the south- 
VY. Papers on Mereoric Astronomy. 
The following notices and abstracts of publications relating to luminous 
meteors are necessarily confined to brief records, from the limited extent of 
space available in the remainder of this Report. A review of Dr. Galle’s paper 
on the orbits of fireballs, and principally of that of July 17th, 1873, was 
presented in the first Appendix ; and papers of similar importance from other 
astronomers on the continent have been received. Professor Weiss, of 
Vienna, transmitted a copy of the meteor-observations at Vienna during the 
years 1867-1870, of whose copious contents a more particular description is 
at present reserved, in order that a full account of them may be given in a 
future Report. A letter accompanying this communication presented a list 
of tracks of 169 Andromedes observed at Pesth between 8" 15™ and 114 15™ 
p.m. (Vienna time) on the night of November 27th, 1872, by Prof. Schenzl 
and Drs. Baumgartner and Kurlaender, and of 108 tracks recorded between 
9" 15™ and 11" 15™ p.m. (Vienna time) on the same evening at Geneva by 
Mr. R. Schram, from a projection of the whole of which Dr. Weiss obtained 
exact indications of the following radiant-points as active during the period 
of the shower :— 
Proportions of meteors of 
a= = the shower. 
° 
(MOLE are 200 +44°2............ producing 57 per cent. 
Principal meteor ra- | (2)......... B22 49:5... coe a (jen A 
diant-points, Noy. j (Owe DOB OA Ges ee. Sy 15 eS 
27th, 1872. ACS RES ee 349°3 +40°1............ a 6 a 
WS OraGdse tess cb usehend RE decbhns nih 4 Tastes 
A copy of the ‘Wicner Zeitung’ of November 30th, 1872, containing his 
summary of correspondents’ descriptions of the recent shower, was also 
received from Prof. Littrow of Vienna, and an erratum in the list of radiant- 
points <f the shower in the No, for May, 1878, of the ‘Monthly Notices’ of 
