46 EEPORT— 1880. 



KOTES. — Bectification of some Meteor- trachs referred to in the present list. 



No. 6.- — The real path of this meteor given at p. 78 of the volume for 

 18G2 of these Reports is entirely erroneous from an accidental perversion 

 in the calculation of one of the simultaneous observations. The computed 

 path rests upon a supposed foreshortened view of the meteor at Manchester 

 near e Pegasi ; but the star named in Mr. Baxendell's observation of the 

 meteor there was e Capricorni. The real flight of the meteor was therefore 

 much lower than was supposed ; and so far as the correction which it 

 requires affects the position of the radiant-point, the original observations 

 have again been projected and compared together. The most probable 

 place of the radiant-point obtained from the new comparison of the re- 

 corded tracks is that near \p Capricorni which is assigned to the meteor 

 in the present list. The August shooting-stars (A,B,C,D,E,) of which 

 approximate real paths are given on the same page of the volume of 

 Reports for 1862 (all of them apparently scattered Perseids) were too 

 roughly observed to allow any dependence for useful comparisons to be 

 placed on their astronomical radiant-points. The positions of those points 

 were only guessed or indicated loosely from the observations to assist the 

 remainder of the calculations. 



No. 12. — The direction and position of the real path of this meteor 

 given at page 80, in the above volume of these Reports, are, by some 

 mistake made in the graphical projections, greatly at variance with the 

 precise and accordant observations from which they are derived. The 

 meteor's horizontal flight was directed almost exactly from east to west 

 instead of (as it is described) from about thirty degrees south of east. 

 The correction, corresponding to this needful emendation of the real path, 

 is introduced in the present list in the observed astronomical position of 

 the meteor's I'adiant-point. 



The radiant here adopted of the meteor No. 14, is also, to accord more 

 perfectly with the best accounts, placed fifteen or twenty degrees nearer 

 to the true east point than the position at the same altitude in due N.E., 

 which it is assumed to have occupied in the description given at the same 

 page of the above year's Report, of that fireball's real path. 



In the account of the real path of the fireball of February 7, 1863 (at 

 page 321 of the volume for that year), the Mull of Galway is accidentally 

 misstated as the locality of its end-point, instead of the Mull of Cantire. 



No. 29. — The two shooting stars described as simultaneously observed 

 on the morning of November 14, 1863, at page 91 of the volume of these 

 Reports for the year 1864, were unquestionably ' Leonids ' ; but no 

 experience of the meteors of that shower having at that time been yet 

 obtained, their real character was not suspected. The provisional radiant- 

 points adopted to accommodate the somewhat discordant observations to 

 each other for calculating their heights, are consequently quite erroneous ; 

 and some mistakes of deduction of the real paths seem also to have been 

 committed in the process of the graphical projections. Although they 

 emanated from the direction of Leo's Sickle, leaving the well-known 

 luminous streaks upon their tracks, the simultaneous views recorded of 

 their flights are not sufficiently distant from each other on a map to afford, 

 by the backward prolongations and intersections of the tracks, astro- 

 nomical positions of their respective radiant-points which would be accurate 

 enough for insertion in the present list. 



