16 
REPORT— 1847. 
92 in one hour; Newliaven, U.S. (ib. 331). Nov. 12.—Clear, butonlrtwofluJ 
meteors (Grecowicb Meteor. Oba). 13. Partially clear; two meteors, oaeiitna 
and sparks (ib.). 
1845. Jult/ 16.—Large meteor; Belgium (Bulletin Acad. BmiellB, liil- 
Autf. U, 10. JOOin one hour; Coulvier Gravicr (L’lnstitut, 288). N.E. toS,W. 
Great numbers in Via lactea, Cassiopeia and Cygnus; Ferrey, D^d (H). 
Largc meteor in London; at Oxford cloudy, but light of meteor seen. 
1 846. Matf 8.—Fall of acrolitlies near Ancona (L’lustitut, 340). Jug. lO.-Hh 
one hour; Perrey, Dijon (ib. 295); cloudy at Oxford. Oct. 17.— Large oast, 
train collapsed ■, Perrey,Dijon (ib. 412). Largemeteor; London,Ramsgatf,lif*l8; 
oomBcatiuns preceding. Nov. 19.—Bright meteor; Perrey, Dijon (ib). 
On the Eclipse of October 1 847. Ey llte Rev. Professor Powell, 
The object of this communication was to call attention to the re(narka!rf«*ciif* 
which is to occur on the 9th of October next, and which will be ancolariinw- 
shlerable part of the sooth of England. Diagrams were exhibited of the 
usually attending such eclipses, to which nllention ought to be directed, ndiwp 
of Its course over England and Ireland. The subject having appeared of ge^.“; 
terest, a committee of the Association drew up a series of suggestions acdii^ 
to obuTvers, which was printed and circulated atnoug the members, and of we** 
copy is annexed 
•• SugijeatiuHsfor tU Ohsermlion of the Amnlar Eclipse, Oci. 9, 
Jintieh Association for the Admnecment of Sdf^ice, 03ford,Jvne2^, 1847 .— W 
lowing direclious and suggostkms, rt-lativc to the ensuing annular edijise oft*'**’ 
which will take place Oct. 9, 1847, ore proposed for the assistance oflfss*^^ 
oliscrvers, or those who mav not have better information at hand, 
Dcvcrtlicless render great service by noticingaud recording, as well as circwD!t>>«” 
permit, any of the various points herein alluded to. . ^ 
I. As agcncral direction as to the limits within whidi the eclipse cm 
uul^ m England and Ireland, if on any map a line be drawn through 
tod Glouwster and produced, it will gi4 the norttem limit atwhich^ P 
ceases to be annular. A line parallel to the last, through Padstow in “ 
P«t. and Torbay on the East, (which will extend across the Chaow »fhjw 
«cc ond passes just below Cape Clear oo the West.) will be the Hue 
gland ' anoular and central. The Southern limit lies wholly t- 
guide to the time, the commencement of the 
7**^4® *V I. »«-’clvOning) for the extreme South-west of W 
^ K* '“j trough Land’s End and Milford Haven, at "» 25- thnx#' 
III p} Reading, at 7*> 25- 50* for Walmer (Greenwich mean tioK^- 
Ab thi. nn. Ti .°|’®®‘^ationft requisite, a telescope of very moderate , - 1 
to "* three or four minutes, those una^-_ 
aomonn r,r shonld be- cautioned against attempting to observe 
should the risk of observing nose. Ifi>ossiblese'vr»l«J^ 
difficulties arising from the rapid 
w?^« ^ observer may be referred to Capt. Smvth's Cyck (*-1^', 
nm« Tr. L. ? otrtfortriiqutllUing^'**^ 
d^ioff ^ phffinomenon : especiallv bv previously mabo? » ^ 
In mnrfiMi ^ Of any) existing on the sun’s'tliM, which mar be 
•“v progress of the eclipse. , 
•fwidiamci? k"; 'o^wtlog the moon’s tabnlar north 
••var thrii?/V.^l desirable that observations should be ■* 
barolv onnuln?^'.® *^‘‘'***3^ G*^eDwich and Gloucester) on which tht 
fbc folluwinif oi eclipse will be completely annular, 
of beginning of aunularity and end of annulariri' should b* 
