Abstract
THE present year will certainly be remarkable for its large meteors. One of the most brilliant class of these phenomena appeared on January 25, and a fortnight later (February 8) a fireball was seen as a conspicuous object even in the presence of the midday sun, for the time was only 28 minutes after noon. The early evening of February 21 furnished another of these brilliant objects, but the observations were neither numerous nor exact, and all that could be definitely gleaned from them was that the body disappeared at a height of 30 miles over Bolton in Lancashire. On April 22, before daylight had gone, a fine meteor descended over the extreme south-east part of England, crossing the Strait of Dover from Hastings in the direction of Amiens in France. On May 18 a large daylight meteor was observed in Scotland and Ireland; Several additional instances of these striking visitors have been recently recorded, and the Perseids presented a few fine specimens, though the season has been a very cloudy and unpropitious one for all kinds of celestial observation.
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