The meteor was seen at Manchester, and at many places in the north 

 of England ; bnt it was principally seen in Scotland, and most brilliantly 

 in the neighbourhood of Dundee, as at Alyth, Arbroath, and other places 

 in Perthshire and Forfarshire. Notes of its appearance at these places, 

 and also at Dunbar and at Lennoxtown (near Glasgow), not noticed in 

 the catalogue accompanying the Appendix, were recorded in the 

 ' Scotsman ' and ' Dundee Courier and Argus ' of March 26th, and in the 

 ' Blairgowrie Advertiser ' of March 30th (as the Committee was apprised 

 by Mr. John Robertson, of Coupar Angus), and in answer to its inquiries 

 the Committee also learned of its having been seen near Tyndrum, and by 

 the Scottish Meteorological Society's observer, Mr. G. Croucher, at 

 Ochtertyre, near Crieff, in Perthshire. The description of the meteor's 

 form and colour was substantially the same at all these points, being that 

 of a cone, pointed behind and round in front, in length about three times 

 its breadth ; white or yellow in the centre, with a border of red light 

 surrounding it. At Alyth, " it had a streamer about a yard long, and as 

 it came between the observer and the sun it had a very imposing and 

 grand appearance." Another observer describes it as "a fiery figure, 

 shaped like an immense V, which [starting near the sun] flowed right 

 east, with a brilliancy eclipsing the sun even, and then it burst into frag- 

 ments." At Dunbar, the conical head of the meteor, rocket-like at first, 

 was likened, as it slanted earthwards, " to an umbrella half-closed," bright 

 flames seemed to issue from four points of the central body, which was 

 yellow in the middle and bright red at the outer fringe. A long streak 

 of light marked its track for 15 or 20 minutes, and a peal of distant 

 thunder was heard about the time of its disappearance. At Dundee it 

 burned and flashed in its descent like a rocket, and on apparently nearing 



