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16th and 17th, at Durham; on the 18th at Hastings; on the 

 20th at Hartwell House, Hartwell Rectory, Durham and 

 Whitby; on the 21st at Hartwell House, Hartwell Rectory, 

 Berwick, Whitby and Durham ; on the 22nd at Brighton, 

 Darlington, Durham, Dundee, Berwick and W T hitby ; on the 

 23rd at Darlington, Durham, Dundee and Edinburgh ; on 

 the 24th at Hartwell House, Darlington, Yarmouth and 

 Whitby ; on the 25th at Whitby ; and on the 3 1st at Berwick 

 and Hartlepool. On June 1 at Berwick, Sunderland and 

 Dundee; on the 2nd at Berwick; on the 3rd and 4th at 

 Edinburgh; on the 5th at Folkestone; on the 17th at Sun- 

 derland ; on the 18th at Glasgow ; and on the 20th at White- 

 haven. 



Meteors. — At Stone, on April 10, at 10 b p.m., a meteor shot 

 from Jupiter to y Leonis. On May 2, at 10 h p.m., a meteor 

 shot from Virgo about 4° from Jupiter, and went as far as 

 Jupiter; on May 29, at 10 h 5 m p.m., a meteor shot from 

 a Cygni southwards. On June 4, at ll h 28 m p.m., a meteor 

 shot from « Urs. Min. (Polaris) to 8 Urs. Maj.; on the 

 16th, at h 25 m a.m., a meteor shot from the west of /3 Cas- 

 siopeae and went 4° north ; on the same night, at h 40 m a.m., 

 a splendid meteor, larger than a star of the first magnitude, 

 shot from the west of Capella 10° east of due north, and about 

 15° above the horizon, and went in a westward direction near 

 to the star 31 Lyncis, leaving a train of blue light of about 

 20°; a few seconds after a small meteor shot from above Po- 

 laris to Cassiopea ; on the same night, at h 45 m a.m., a 

 meteor shot from /3 Serpentis, and went about 5° south ; at 

 l h 3 m a.m., a meteor shot from s Bootis to Arcturus ; at 

 l h 20 m a.m., a meteor as large as a star of the first magnitude, 

 and of a beautiful red colour, shot from s Urs. Maj. and passed 

 by a Urs. Maj. On the 20th, at ll h 42 m p.m., a meteor shot 

 from a Lyrae to a Cygni ; on the 24th, at 1 l h 30 m p.m., a me- 

 teor as large as a star of the first magnitude shot from Arcturus 

 and went 20° magnetic west, leaving a train of blue light. 



On June 4, at Hartwell Rectory, a small meteor was seen 

 from Polaris to the Pointers, at ll h 30 m ; on the 21st a me- 

 teor shot from a Lyrse to « Cygni at 1 l h 42 m p.m.* On June 24 

 a meteor was seen from Arcturus to within 10° of the horizon 

 at ll h 30 m . 



At Nottingham, on May I, at 10 h 33 m , a meteor of the size 

 of a star of the second mag. fell slowly from 30° above S. 

 horizon, at an angle of 40° to west; and at ll h 10 m another 

 fell downwards 5° south of Jupiter. May 30, at 10 h 38 m , a 



* This is evidently the same meteor as that observed at Stone, but which 

 is referred to June 20 : which day is right ? 



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