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- Direction or Altitude. General remarks. Place. Observer. Reference. 
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ath from the Sword-handle of|Night remarkably|Observatory, E.J. Lowe Mr. Lowe’s MS. 
Perseus, moving downwards} clear and cloud-| Beeston. 
towards the N., passing 8°] less. Day had 
above Capella and almost] been very hot, 
th ough f Aurige, fading] temp. in shade 
away near that star. reaching 80°°5 
li perpendicularly down, OF|Uvctnecccnvs Fiecen-veees|taiphtield’ TOUSEIT Gd)... vcisc.ccdccas Ibid. 
ather nearly so, and moving Observatory. 
allel with and 1° W. of the 
uperior edge of Donati’s 
Comet. Had the appearance 
of moving behind some 
opake body, as the same 
shaped object disappeared 
and reappeared 21 times. 
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-|Many other meteors|Ibid.............065 dsp coseues See 3009 Ibid. 
Many meteors...... Thid...seeesseeeeee Del Jee oeke Ibid. 
nati’s Comet, and was first 
seen near the nucleus on W. 
side of Comet. 
direction of the star \ Dra- 
conis, and crossing the star 
x Urs Majoris. 
Ry 
from various Observers. 
Dresteseescesstecscscesccevvens .-.|Appeared near......|Southsea, near/Mr. S. Atkin ofMS. communica- 
Portsmouth. Liverpool, Mr.| tion. 
W. J. Hay, 
Chemist to the 
Dockyard, and 
Mr. W. W. 
( Hayes. 
cended from N. in a curved)....... seeesss-++| Little Woodhouse] W. Braithwaite, ana Guard- 
‘ine towards E. near Leeds. Surgeon. 
N. W. nearly opposite ).|............ acevo she'ades Fern’s Plat, St.|J. Jeffery....... times, Feb. 4, 1858. 
40° (about) distant. Day, Cornwall. 
