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REPOirr — 1877. 



Date. 



Hour 

 G.M.T. (or 



local time). 



1876 

 Dec.13 



Place of 

 Observation. 



h m 



4 45 p.m. St. James's 



Square, Lon 

 don. 



13 



13 



About 

 4 50 p.m 



28 p.m. Bristol 



Apparent Size. 



Colour. 



About equal to, or 

 rather brighter 

 than If.. 



Blackwater, near A small fireball 

 Yorktown 

 (Hants). 



Duration. 



Position or 

 Apparent Path. 



21 



1377. 



Jan. 7 



8 40 p.m, 



About 

 10 30 



p. II! 



Illinois and sur- 

 rounding 



States, U. S 

 America. 



Putney Hill, 

 London. 



: 2nd mag.* in 

 brightness, but 

 large and dull, 

 with a sensible 

 disk. 



Meteor of the 

 largest size ; ae 

 rolitic. 



I Meteor of great 

 brightness. 



31 p.m. Birmingham 



10 32 p.m, 



Pale yellow, 

 changing to 

 bluish green; 

 at last red, 

 with tail of 

 the same co- 

 lour. 



White 



Nucleus and 

 following 

 meteors 

 white. 



Increased from a 

 mere point to 

 the brightness of 

 Venus, near « 

 Leonis, with a 

 brighter flash at 

 disappearance. 



To an observer 

 walking down 

 the Square it 

 passed from 



north to south 

 until it disap 

 peared behind 

 the houses. 



Fell from the hea 

 vens and ap- 

 proached but 

 did not reach 

 the eartb be- 

 fore it disap- 

 peared. 



From the fore- 

 part of Ursa 

 Major (near the 

 N.E.) to a point 

 near Saturn 

 (near the south 

 horizon). 



Fully a minute|From 75 miles over 

 Kansas, to 25 

 miles over west- 

 ern Nw York. 



Some 10 sees. 



Deep yellow, 

 merging into 

 ruby-red to- 

 wards the 

 tail. 



Near London 



5 or 6 sees. ; 

 very slow 

 speed. 



Motion unusu- 

 ally slow. 



Its course began 

 between a and 

 /3 Geminorum, 

 and passed across 

 X and ^ Ursse 

 Majoris, ending 

 a little beyond 

 the latter star. 



From a point near 

 r\ Hydrse to a 

 point below a 

 Leonis at 182 , 1 

 + 1G°. Fron.j 

 near a Leonis 

 vaporous tail fol 

 lowed the me- 

 teor about 8° in 

 length. 



From X, n Ursa 

 Majoris to 

 point 3° belowl 

 a Canum Vena-f 

 ticorum ; pro 

 ceeding thencd 

 several degree| 

 further. 



