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10$h—1 Lh, 11h—12h. 12h—Ib. 
tiie - - 13 38 60 
Eas’ - - - 9 38 31 
Sout th, - - 7 33 54 
West, - - - 12 30 7 
41 139 152 
Soon after midnight one observer ceased to watch. The fo ollowing 
numbers were seen during the next ali and a half hours by the other 
three, making in all 1026 ite te 
1h—2h, 2h—3h. 3h—3}h. 
North and eg 92 112 0 
East and South, 75 80 13 
South and West, 93 130 59 
260 322 112 
The small number seen by one observer during the last half hour was 
probably due to his fatigue and sleepiness. There seemed to be a large 
number of unusually fine meteors, apparently a larger proportion than 
usual. Only a small proportion of the whole were unconformable.. 
night, Mr. Bradley oe thirty, between one-half and two-thirds of 
which were conformabl 
t Lawrence, in Rise nsas, Mr. Wm. H. R. Lykins counted between the 
setting of the moon ahont half past ten) and one o'clock, over 300 me- 
aa sky was beautifully clear and cloudless, 
Mr. George Scarborough, in a letter from Riverside, Kansas, to the 
ee pes Press, states that on the same night from 104 to 1044, he 
unted sixteen meteors; from 1044 to 115, seventeen the next half i 
from 125 to 124 (sic), twenty. sive were nites. At one o’clock, not 
very well, he retired, bot a at three o'clock, ae uring one ahi. 
counted fifty. hat nights of “he 10th and 11th were unfavorable, but 
between 34 a © .M., Aug. 13th, he counted but séz meteors, though 
the sky was cle 
Mr, H. P. Tattle, on ia the Spee off Charleston, reports that he 
sat up to watch from 9! p.m. to 44 a. m., and saw only seventeen (?) dur- 
ing that time. The sky was 3 remarkably clear. H. A 
4. Repor ey Luminous Meteors ; by Mr. J. GLAISHER.—The Report 
contained numerous observations of fireballs, or the largest class of me- 
teors, contributed for the eee prese: ted. The largest fireball de- 
scribed was the 5th o E rcs tee 1863, which produced the 
vivid | impression of lightning over the whole of the British Isles, Fire- 
balls described in Paris are greatly underrated, for meteors of the largest 
class are there rated as only six times brighter than Venus. Two small 
prepa were seen in a short space of time on the 21st of January, and 
o of the largest size on the 4th of July, 1864. Two fireballs closely 
flowed the observation of a large meteor at Athens by Dr. Schmidt, on 
the 19th of October, 1863; one in England, and the second on the coast 
of oo. This preference of individual dates is now well known, and 
es the attention of the Committee. Like the fireball of 1783, the 
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