THE SURFACE OF THE MOON. 
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one or two seconds the luminous appearance vanished, but a black point 
seemed to continue falling towards the earth. Mr. Iiuntman went into a field 
where he concluded it had fallen, but could not find it. He says there was a 
strong smell of sulphur in the field. 
The Rev. J. Brooke of Colston Bassett near Bingham saw the meteor from 
five miles S. of Lincoln ; it was going in 
a northerly direction and passing from S.W. 
to N.E. The form was somewhat like the 
sketch appended; when it burst it resem¬ 
bled a rocket bursting. 
Mr. 6. Warriner noticed it from Normanton Hotel near Wakefield ; it ap¬ 
peared to vanish at an altitude of 20°. 
It was seen also at Tunbridge. 
From the explosion occurring so soon after disappearance, and from the 
meteor passing beneath a cloud, and from black fragments being noticed to 
hll, it is probable that the noise hoard hero, was from the first explosion 
("lien nearest over head, this would give an altitude of about 14,000 yards), 
and that other fragments fell elsewhere. The newspapers describe fragments 
8 having been picked up in Hanover.—E. J. Lowe. 
Second Report of the Committee , consisting of the Earl of Rosse, 
the Rev. Dr. Robinson, and Professor Phillips, appointed by the 
general Committed at Belfast , to draw up a Report on the Physical 
diameter of the. Moon's Surface, as compared with that of the 
Earth. 
HE Committee have on this occasion to report that two of the eminent 
persons whose co-opcration they had the good fortune to secure, Professor 
8 ‘ 8 . and Professor P. Smyth, have sent in communications and drawings, 
r cording to the request, of the Committee, and that some steps have been 
j * n b y of their own members for at least putting in train for further 
"e'tess the photographic experiments on the moon, of which some pre- 
tion< ii "i° tlCe was del »vered to the Hull Meeting. The new comimimca- 
* a uded to will be presented to the Section at this Meeting. 
(On behalf of tho Committee) John Phillips. 
^icings of different Features of a portion of the Moon's Surface, com- 
prmny Plato, the Alps , the Valley of the Alps , and Cassini. 
...... » Cambridge Observatory, September 18, 1854. 
Hr, , ".!•), vv * n K 8 were made under my direction by my seuior assistant, i Ir. 
(her *!! h „ Northumberland Telescope of the Cambridge Observatory, 
fr.r the ml* 11 sk ( ? tt:llC(1 al sight, and were taken at various ages of the moon 
piano ami ;'° Se ?. obtaining indications of the forms and configuration, both in 
which k r ° K /’ of t* 10 different parts of the portiou of the moon s surface 
e °nsiderpii l t n ,l ottod to me for mapping. They are, therefore, only o e 
cro nitlor , ** P rc T>nratory and auxiliary to a final delineation* A few rni- 
thc nii t . rrim t ‘f aures accompany them, ‘it is proposed hereafter to multiply 
r'^nectiiirr !i measur cs for the purpose of correcting the drawings, and 
a, ' er Sen£n k , to B etl,er > a nd for reducing all to the same scale. On and 
*«, iKfT h im. Mr. Breen made u.e of a th.de of gl»« 
nect of which is to take off the glare of strong moonlight, and to 
