Astronomy. 163 
— of the Johns Hopkins University, delivered at Baltimore 
n the 12th of September, 1876, and a lecture on the study of 
Bi ology, in connection with the ois Collection of Scientific Ap- 
paratus, South Kensington Museum, delivered December 16, 1876. 
IV. ASTRONOMY. 
1. Notice of ise Meteor aes June 12,1877; by Professor DanrEex 
Kirkwoop, (Communicated.)—On the aga June 12, 1877, 
about fifteen Pht Vive 9 o’clock, a large meteor was seen in 
Indiana, throughout almost the entire extent of we State. The 
Plymouth Democrat® of Th ureday, June 14th, contains the fol- 
lowing notice of the phenom 
remarkably brilliant meteor, of a bluish color, passed 
through the heavens from ae st to ‘east, last Tuesday evening at 
about fifteen minutes past 9 o’clock, The movement of the 
meteor was much slower a is usual with such bodies, being 
visible for several seconds. It left no trace of its course, as some 
former meteors have done. Its elevation was about thirty de- 
grees, and the space traversed was about twenty degrees, accord- 
ing to the opinion of a city paper: 
The time here wixeds fifteen minutes past 9 o'clock, is certainly 
erroneous, as the meteor was seen be ore 9 both in ‘Muncie and 
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from west to east, nearly parallel to the horizon, at an elevation 
of about 40°. Mr, F, M. Parker, a graduate of Indiana University, 
i Monroe County. nae 
first seen it was about 15° east of north at an altitude of 17° 
18°; its apparent magnitude was one-fourth that of the moon; ts 
° 
was aay and that its height above "the earth’s surface at t 
moment of its disappearance was more than thirty miles and ee 
than forty. 
_. Indiana, July 2. 
metric measurement of Double Seated memoir 
this wibieietg extending to 266 pages, by N. ©. nee is mercer 
in the Acta Universitatis Lundensis, tom. xii, 1875- 
3. We are glad to learn that Mr. Burnham has fed granted 
4. Handbook of Descriptive Astronomy ; E 
Cuampers, 3d edition. Clarendon Press Series, Macmillan & 
Co. London: 1877. 8vo, 960 pp.—The first edition of this ex- 
cellent work was published = ten years ago and is probably 
known to most amateur astronomers, In that edition there were 
* Published at Plymouth, Marshall visa near the northern boundary of the 
