122 



REPORT 1876. 



Date. 



Hour 

 G. M. T. (or 

 local time) 



1875. h m 

 June 2 About 



10 30 p.ni 



Place of 

 Observation. 



Apparent Size. 



Colour. 



Duration. 



Wolverhampton Large 



Position or 

 Apparent Path. 



7| 2 15 a.m. Melrose, Scot- | Brilliant meteor , 

 1 land. 

 25ill 20 p.m. 'Cambridge . 



About 7 or 8 Its course was 



seconds. 



nearly 

 east. 



south* 



July 7 10 54 p.m. Bristol. 

 8,12 2 a.m. Ibid. . 



Fine meteor. 

 = Jupiter. ... 

 = Venus .... 



Aug. 1 9 25 p.m.. Ibid = Jupiter. 



8 10 10 p.m. 'Ibid About=Venus 



I I I 



16 10 20 p.m.jThe Garden Cliff, Large meteor ., 

 near St. Agues. 

 Cornwall. i 



White, like 

 I burning 

 magnesium. 



Sept. 2| 9 22 p.m. Regent's Park, Large and brilliant Rather ruddy. 

 London. 



?.; 9 52 p.m, 



4 .\bout 



I 8 45 p.m. 

 10 p.m, 



Rapid 



Several 

 seconds. 



In the north 



Passed just under 



Cassiopeia. 

 Shot towards the 



sword-hand of 



Perseus. 



From 126° -4-53° 

 to 125 -f46 



Shot across or near 

 ■K Pegasi. 



From a point in the 

 S.E. to a little N. 

 of E. ; but a few 

 degrees above 



j the neighbouring 



I hills of Peuhall's 



I Mine. 



Came from about 

 Corona, its course 

 ending about 10° 

 below a, /3 Ursae 

 Majoris. 



RadcIifFe Obser- .\bout3x 5^. [Disk Blue, changingjo seconds. [I'D First apppared just 



vatory,Oxford, 

 [Royal Obser- 

 vatory, Green- 

 wich, &c.]. 



West Dereham... 



Bristol 



ij, of dazzling 

 brightness.] 



to green. 



7 11 21 p.m. Radcliffe Obser 

 vatory, Oxford, 

 Ipswich, Kent, 

 Surrey, Essex, 

 &c. 



Splendid meteor . 

 Large fireball .... 



or 2 seconds 

 rapid] 



Brighter than Ju- 

 piter or Venus. 

 Disk about \ ap- 

 parent diameter 

 of the moon. 



Blue with red 

 sparks. Blue 

 colour of 

 nucleus very 

 bright. 



west of Saturn. 



[Passed between 



« and /3, disap 



pearing close to 



B Aquilae.] 



jln the north-west.. 



In the eastern skv.. 



Duration 2 or 

 3 seconds. 

 (Oxford, 

 or 7 sees.) 



Seven or eight well 

 observed appa- 

 rent positions of 

 its course. 



