OBSERVATIONS OP LUMINOUS METEOR3. 



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Length of 

 Path. 



Direction or Radiant-point. 



15° 



5°. 



3°. 



PerseiVl ; near the radiant-point. 



Course nearly a prolongation 

 of the next (11'' 30'»), at 

 Tooting. 



Perseid ; near the radiant-point 



j8° j Nearly from cTi, c, Ursae M ajoris 



Appearance, Remarks, &c. 



Left a streak for 2 seconds. Time 

 uncertain to half a minute. 



r [The Birmingham observations 

 J independent ; accord per- 

 I fectly with the next, at 

 L Tooting.] 



Disappeared close to jS Ursae Ma- 

 juris. 



37'' 



Began as far 

 eastward 

 from Sirius 

 as that star 

 was from 

 the horizon. 



Directed from y Lyrae 



Course nearly horizontal but 

 slightly falling. 



Observer 

 and Reference. 



'Descended in a south-easterly 



i direction on a path inclined 



about 60° to the horizon. 



IN. 



[Two meteors only mapped at 



Tooting.] 

 The light was as intense as that 



of a vivid flash of lightning. 



[Seen also at Winchester, be. 



hind clouds in the north (mo. 



tion apparently from S. to N.) 



by Dr. Flight.] 



The meteor resembled a flash of 

 light falling to the ground 

 The streak, like the tail of a 

 comet without a head, re- 

 mained 3 minutes in the star- 

 lit sUy, as in the figure, gra- 

 dually fading away. 



Left a streak almost vertical in 

 the south-west for a second. 



Seen through glass panes of a 

 conservatory. No streak visi- 

 ble in the open air. [Perhaps 

 the same meteor as that ob- 

 served in Paris at 10'' (local 

 time), and at Lewes, Susse.'s, ai 

 1 0'' 30'" p.m. See the note from 

 'Nature/ Dec. 21th, 1874, in the 

 ' last paragraph of tliis Appendix.] 



Leaving a very persistent streak, 

 at first straight, then contorted, 

 visible for half an hour. 



A ' meteorite ' is reported to 

 have fallen at Orleans on 

 March 9th. (' Nature,' vol.xi. 

 p. 396.) 



(For Mr. Denning's description of 

 the same meteor at Bristol, see 

 next page.) 



Perhaps identical with meteors 

 noted on the same date in 

 France, in Paris, or at Havre. 



A. S. Herschel. 



W. II. Wood. 



T. 11. Waller. 



H. W. Jackson. 



T. H. Waller. 



H. W. Jackson. 



W. F. Denning, ' Astro- 

 nomical Kegister,' 

 October 1874. 



E. H. Marshall. 



W. F. Denning, ' Astro- 

 nomical Register,' 

 October 1874. 



Jos. Gledhill, ' Astro- 

 nomical Register,' 

 October 1875. 



iVccounts by several ob- 

 servers in ' Comptes 

 Rend us,' vol. Ixxx. 

 p. 575 et seq. 



'Nature,' vol. xi. p. 413. 



II. Macleod. 

 vol. xi. p. 



' Nature,' 

 427. 



W. H. Wood. 



