OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 223 



N"ew Meteor-Showers (1875). Principally from the English Observations. 



B.A. Cat. 



No. cou- 



tinued. 



Greg, 1875. 



188. 

 189. 



190. 



191. 

 (53 a) 



192. 



(69?) 



(110?) 



(83, 98) 



193. 



(119?) 

 194. 



195. 



196. 



197. 



198. 

 199. 



3S^5 



Date and ObserTations. 



Observed by Denza, Feb. 1 1 -27, 1808, at 



Omitted in new B.A. Catalogue, but in 1867 Atlas, 



March 3-27. Perhaps connected with the 



next, No. 190. 

 January 15-February-March 15. Strongly sus- 

 pected at 



April 13-May 1. Probable, extending about from 



225°, +22° to 210°, +10°. 

 March 18-19, 1874. Observed by Mr. Backhouse 

 May 19-June 21. Probably new (?=W, No. 69) 

 July 10-30. Very well pronounced. Formerly 



no doubt confused between W and Q 1, 2. 



Confirmed also by Mr. Herschel, July 16, 17, 



1870, at 257°, +36°. 

 July 25- August 26 (especially Aug. 7-12 and 23), 



A 11, Cassio2mdi< ; accompanying the August 



shower of Perseids. 

 Sej^tember. Well pronoimced in Tarandus ; pos- 

 sibly has been confused with F^ ^ (No. 136). 



September. Fairly pronounced at 



Suspected, September, at 



October 18-23; Gruber, Oct. Eadiants IV., XI. 



(average position). 

 October IS-Nov. 10 (T. W. Backhouse, Oct. 30, 



1872, at Piscium, 25°, +8°), EB. 

 October 17-24; Gruber, Oct. Eadiants I., VII., 



XIII. (average position). 



October 28; S.&Z. 163 



October 28 ; Gruber, Oct. Eadiant XVI 



Very fairly pronounced shower, Nov. 4-Dec. 8, at 

 J. E. Clark, Dec. 10-12, 1873 (very accurate 



radiation). 



Position of 

 the Eadiant. 



E.A. Decl. 



105 

 36 



► 65 



217 



157 

 263 

 255 



- 5 



+67 



+61 

 +16 



+ 13 



+37 

 +37 



12 +59 



50 +75 



44 



305 



2 



23 



21 



110 

 89' 

 34 

 57 



+73 

 +22 



+25 



+ 8 



+22-5 



+70 



7+71 



+ 7 



+ 6 



Corrections to the last Catalogue (1874). 



No. 12 (page 325). Tupman's positions 177°,+22° and 205°,+4° should belong 

 respectively to No. 6 and No. 8 ; S. & Z. 14 should change place with S. & 

 Z. 25, No. 18. 



No. 69a (page 330) should be 68a, and should follow No. 68 in the Catalogue. 



No. 83=98 in Cassiopeia, confirmed (?=E 1 in part), includes also S. & Z. 105 



No. 90, ?=87, not 89. 



No. 129. E 3 of Greg and H.=Nos. 167 and 185, November and December. 



No. 141=147 ; receives a new confirmation in September, at 130° +32°. 



Papers relating to Meteoric Astronomy. — In the Sheffield Scientiiie School 

 of Yale College, in the United States, Prof. H. A. Newton delivered a lecture 

 on March 9th, 1874, " On the story of Biela's Comet," in which he details 

 with much completeness the circumstances of the positions of Biela's comet 

 in its orbit relative to the earth at the times of the occurrences of the 

 greatest meteor-showers known to have proceeded from the earth's approach 

 to this comet's orbit. The line of the nodes, or the place of the earth's nearest 

 approach to the comet's track, being at N, it appears that in the year 1798, 



