Year	Day of month	Locality	Size or weight	Direction	Duration; rate; hour;	Remarks, &c
1830.	Feb. 15	Edgbaston, Birmingham	= moon	N.E to S.W	about 7½ P.M.	twice appeared and disappeared at intervals of 2". Streak visible for some time.
*		Launton, Oxfordshire	2½ lbs.	N.E. to S.W.	7½ P.M.	Stone-fall, with noise and light; sp. gr. 3·625. February 15. Launton, near Bicester. This stone is in the possession of Dr. Lee, F.R.A.S. See Buck's Gazette, April 10, 1830.
	Oct. 10	Krusenstern?	...	...	...	fireball.
	Dec. 14	Warsaw	...	...	...	ditto.
	Mar. 14	Freiberg; Wirtemberg; Baden	= moon	S. to N.	2"	ditto.
1831.	Jan. 12	Berlin	large	...	...	ditto; = moonlight; burst like a rocket.
	28	Gotha	...	...	...	ditto.
1831.	Jan. 12	Breslau	...	...	...	fireball.
?	July 18	Foligno, Italy	...	...	...	a meteoritic detonation in the air? Tuscany.
*	18	Vouille near Poitiers, France	40 lbs.	...	...	Stone-fall; sp. gr. 3·55. May 13?.
*	Sept. 9	Wessely, Moravia	6 ¾ lbs.	...	3½ P.M.	Stone-fall. At Znorrow.
	Oct. 20	Hopsigheim, Wirtemberg	= moon	N.W. to S.E.	3 A.M.	fireball; gave out sparks; a hissing sound heard?.
	Nov. 13	Brüneck	...	...	...	ditto.
	13	N. of Spain	large	E. to W.	streak 6'	left a broad track of light 15" wide, visible for 6'.
	26	Sogel	...	...	...	fireball.
	29	Hildburghausen	= moon	...	...	rose in the west.
	Dec. 8	Herefordshire	large	...	...	by daylight; also seen at Bath.
	Dec.	Moravia	6¾ lbs.	...	...	aërolitic (according to Kämtz and Baumhauer's Cat.). On the authority of a Vienna newspaper; merely a confused account of the fall of September 9 previously.
1832.	Jan. 2	Bordeaux	large	N.E. to S.W.	rapid	like a 24-pounder ball; brilliant, greenish. Bordeaux, according to Baumhauer's Catalogue.
	23	Zurich	...	...	...	fireball.
	Feb. 7	Lauenberg	...	...	...	ditto.
*	March 7	Cutro, Calabria	large	...	streak 5'	ditto; with loud detonation.
	15	Berlin	...	W. to E.	...	ditto.
	Apr. 11	Tirkut, India	large	W. to E.	5"	moved horizontally; burst like a rocket; small elevation.
	May 20	Bengal, India	...	N. to S.	3"	pear-shaped; did not burst; green and blue; long train.
	31	Riga	...	...	...	fireball.
	June 23	Delhi, India	large, 2/3 moon	E.S.E. to N.N.W.	115° arc	formed as if by three balls uniting into one.
	29	Plymouth, Brest	= moon	N. to S.	10"	had a long tail and rather tremulous motion; bluish. Increased in size from a bright star in the zenith to that of the full moon; went seawards, still increasing in size till lost to sight; no noise; white, blue, red.
	July 24	Meerut, India	large	...	...	dazzling.
	Oct. 6	Berlin	...	...	...	fireball.
	12 or 13	Cologne	large	N. to W.	...	like a rocket, or large comet.
	13	Ulm	...	...	...	fireball.
	14	Tyrol	...	...	streak 15'	a meteoric luminous appearance. November 14. Tyrol. 6 A.M. A streak of light appeared downwards, became a long bright tail in an undulatory state, then a misty cloud formed which remained stationary for 15'. The light at one time so intense, that the smallest type could be read. Meteoric?.
	24	Grünewald	...	...	...	fireball.
1832.	Oct. 19	England	...	...	...	fireball.
	Dec. 13	Herefordshire	large	E. to W.	...	large globe of fire; cast shadows; brilliant..
	19	England	...	...	...	aërolitic (according to Baumhauer's Catalogue). December 19. England; only a fireball, according to Kämtz and Pogg. Annalen.
	20	Bonn	...	...	...	fireball.
or 1833		W. of Unballah, India	...	...	...	Stone-fall (Brit. Assoc. Reports). 1832 or 1833. India; between the Punjab and River Jumna. Same as Nov. 30, 1822, at Futtehpore.
1833.*	Mar. 18	Madras	...	towards N.W.?	2" or 3"	detonation 6½' after bursting. 5½ P.M. One account says it disappeared without bursting at 35° elevation.
	Apr. 19	Nurenberg, Prague	...	...	...	fireball.
	May 20	Chichester	...	...	...	ditto.
?	July 16	Nachratschinsk, Tobolsk	...	...	3½ P.M.	aërolitic (according to Baumhauer's Catalogue). Hail fell; and it is said stones of an angular form. Doubtful.
	Aug. 10	Worcestershire	...	...	...	fireball.
	Sept.	Islay, Scotland	= moon	E. to W.	very slow	ditto; no streak or tail; 180° arc; did not burst. About 1833 or 1834; private notice; light as full moon; visible more than a minute: possibly the one described by Dr. Trail, September 18, 1835.
	Oct. 2	Hildburghausen; Wirtemberg	...	S.W. to N.E.	...	fireball; brilliant.
	Nov. 12	Germany	...	...	...	ditto.
	12 or 13	United States	2/3 moon	...	...	seen during the celebrated shower of meteors.
*	20	Presburg	...	...	...	fireball, and detonation. A fall of stones this year near Presburg; see Brit. Assoc. Reports; but probably the fall at Blansko, November 25: possibly the meteor of the 20th November.
*	25	Blansko, Moravia	8 lbs.+	...	6½ P.M.	Stone-fall; meteor and detonations. Three stones fell. One loud detonation, like a report of a cannon, followed by the rattle of musketery: according to Reichenbach, 8 stones or fragments were found.
*	end of Nov.	Kandahar; Affghanistan	...	...	...	Stone-fall; one of 3 seers weight; a person killed in a court-yard. According to Arago, end of April 1834.
	Dec. 12	Frankfort	...	...	...	large fireball; or 13th Dec..
	11	Herefordshire	...	...	...	large and dazzling fireball; gobular; greenish-blue..
	12	at sea	...	...	...	fine meteor.
*	28	Volhynia, Russia	30 lbs.	...	...	Stone-fall; or 27th December, At Okaninah..
1834.	Jan. 2	Zeitz, Saxony	...	...	...	aërolitic? (Baumhauer's Catalogue). January 2 (or 1st); a mere newspaper humbug; according to Chladni, a piece of granite.
	30	Gainsborough	...	E. to W.	...	fireball.
	Feb. 4	Upper Silesia	= moon	...	...	high up in the sky. At Cracow chiefly.
*	Mar. 10	Hirschberg, Silesia	...	...	3½ A.M.	a brilliant meteor; exploded like thunder.
	May 15	Bunzlau	...	...	...	a fine meteor..
	June 7	Philadelphia, U.S.	...	towards S.W.	10'	a brilliant white meteoric light reaching from the zenith to the horizon. 8 P.M..
*	12	Charwallas, Hissar, India	7 lbs.	...	8 A.M.	Stone-fall; or June 8th. Sp. gr. 3·38.
	July 4	S. Herefordshire	6 > Venus	down	slow	divided into 3 balls; reddish; left a streak during twilight.
	Aug. 10	Brussels	...	...	...	fireball.
	Sept. 29	S. Herefordshire	...	...	streak 2½'	a bright meteoric light; cast shadows; by twilight.
	Oct. 2	Cologne	> Jupiter	horizontal	2"	divided into two parts; dazzling.
	Nov. 13	N. America	...	...	...	fireball; same as November 13, 1835?.
?	29?	Raffaten, Hungary	...	...	...	Stone-fall; or 13th Nov. (Brit. Assoc. Reports).
	30	Naples?	...	...	...	fireball.
*	Dec. 15	Marsala, Sicily	15 lbs.?	...	night	Stone-fall; or 10th Dec. Many (Thom. Met. p. 327)..
*	17	Neuhaus, Bohemia	...	...	...	aërolitic (Boguslawski's Catalogu)..
?	?	Szala, Hungary	...	...	...	Stone-fall?=Raffaten?=Platten-See?.
1835.	Jan. 12	Breslau	...	...	...	fireball.
1835.	Jan. 13	Berlin	...	W. to E.	...	small fireball, seen by strong moonlight.
*	18	Löbau	...	...	4½ P.M.	Stone-fall; no detonation heard.
?	23	Quito	...	...	...	meteor; and noises like firing of cannon for some time. Quito, Carthagena, &c. January 23.? Noises heard apparently in the air from 1 A.M. till 8 A.M. Difficult to explain; possibly subterranean noises.
	Feb. 6	Parma	large	...	...	fireball.
?	Mar. 22	Prussian and Russian frontier	...	...	9 P.M.	a remarkable meteoritic appearance and noise. March 22.? Fortress of Troizkosaffsk. See Boruslawski's Catalogue.
	June 13	Königsberg	...	W. to E.	...	a reddish fireball.
	23	New Grenada	...	...	...	fireball (January 23?)..
	July 17	Milan; Wirtemberg	...	S.E to N.W.	8½ P.M.	like a cannon-ball; long train; detonation. White; brilliant; sparks and train of light; exploded with noise like a cannon over Wirtemburg; also seen at Stutgart, Heilbronne, and many other places.
	18	Aarhus; Berlin	...	E. to W.	...	tail divided into several balls.
*	30	Dickson co., Tennessee, U.S.	9 lbs.	W. to E.?	2½ P.M.?	Iron-fall (or July 31 or August 1?). Loud detonation; fell into a cotton field; mass only found on ploughing up the land.
	Aug. 4	S. Herefordshire	...	...	...	a great concussion in the air high up, probably the bursting of the meteor, from which proceeded the stone picked up the same day at Aldsworth, 13 miles from Cirencester; cloudy at the time; possibly thunder.
*	4	Cirencester	2 lbs.	W. to E.	4¼ P.M.	Stone-fall; sp. gr. 3·4.
	Sept. 6	Gotha	...	...	...	shooting-star; fell leaving a jelly-like mass on the ground. Fell 3 feet from the observer on the ground with a loud noise. Pogg. Ann., vol. xxxvi. p. 315.
	18	at sea (Scotland?)	...	S.W. to N.E.	...	pear-shaped; blue; tailed; sparks.
	Nov. 13	De l'Ain, France	large	S.W. to N.E.	9 P.M.	incandescent; trail; cast shadows; loud detonation. Simonod, near Belley, de l'Ain, France. This meteor is said to have set fire to a barn; perhaps electrical, or possibly an optical deception and coincidence; a stone, resembling obsidian, was found containing some arsenic and iron but no nickel, and is not meteoritic, according to Reichenbach; sp. gr.=1·35.
	13	N. America	...	...	...	fireball (same as November 13th, 1834?).
	17	St. Louis, U.S.	...	...	...	fireball.
	Dec. 12	Berlin and Magdeburg	large	...	2'	no noise; about midnight; or 13th December.
1836.*	Feb. 8	Rivoli, Piedmont	...	...	7 A.M.	large meteor detonation.
	Jan. 12	Cherbourg	2/3 moon	...	6½ P.M.	cast shadows; detonation heard at Coutances. Seemed to rotate on its axis; crackling, whistling sounds heard; low down in sky whilst visible; a dark cavity apparently perceptible in the nucleus. 1835 according to Buchner. Apparently about 1000 feet high, going at the rate of ½ a mile in a second.
	Apr. 24	Rossano, Calabria	large	...	...	like a wooden beam on fire.
	June 10	Sury, Département de Loire	> Venus	S. to N.	...	brilliant; did not burst; white before and reddish tail.
*	Aug. 20	Illinois, U.S.	large	...	streak 15'	during sunshine; explosion and noise; 4 P.M.
	Sept. 18	Florence	...	...	10 A.M.	fireball. A doubtful substance found? electrical?.
	Oct. 18	Breslau	large	...	...	short tail; no noise.
	Nov. 5	Havre, Southampton	large as moon	straight down	slow	pale; 3rd or 6th of November; see at sea. Havre. Private notice. Did not burst; no tail or train.
?	22	Silesia	...	...	...	atmospheric explosion.
*	Dec. 11	Macao, Brazil	sp. gr. 3·72	...	5 A.M. or 11½P.M.	large meteor; burst with noise; very large shower of stones from 1 lb. to 80lb.
?	?	Platten-See, Hungary	...	...	...	Stone-fall (brit. Assoc. Reports);=Szala, 1834?..
1837.*	Jan. 5	Vesoul; Toulouse	= 2/3 moon	N.N.E. to S.S.W.	2"; slow	tailed; light as day; detonated loudly; 1¼ A.M. Toulouse; also at Bâsle and Vichy. Bluish over Toulouse, N. to S., slow; 60° high; made an arc of 55°; had a small tail, followed by 3 smaller balls; rose in the N. at 45° elevation, and went across the zenith nearly down to the southern horizon. At Bâsle, E. to W.; greenish; burst with detonation: seen also at Munich and Hidburghausen; brilliant; tail reddish; lasted 3"; great noise; 1¼ A.M.; Vichy. 170 miles high; 7200 feet diameter, or 2434 meters; speed with earth 4835 meters a second; absolute speed in space 32,450 meters; streak 4'?.
*	15	Mikolowa, Hungary	...	...	5 P.M.	Stone-fall (Poggendorff).
?	Apr. 15	Austria	6 ozs.	...	...	Stone-fall. See Thomson's Meteorology. Possibly January 15, at Mikolowa. There seems to be no mention of this fall in any of the German catalogues.
*	May 5	East Bridgewater, Mass., U.S.	¼ lb.+	...	3½ P.M.	meteor and fall of nine small stones' sp. gr. 2·16.
*	July 24	Gross-Divina, Hungary	19 lbs.	...	noon.	Stone-fall; sp. gr. 3·55.
	Aug. 5	Newhaven, U.S.	large	S.W. to N.W.	1'	equal sun-light; like molten iron. Streak lasted several minutes.
	29	Upper Silesia	...	...	slow	with reddish tail.
	30	Cork, S. Ireland	> moon	S.S.W. to N.N.E.	quick	oval; bluish; burst into red stars. Began as bright spec in the zenith; fell rapidly, and became gradually larger than the moon till it burst.
*	Aug.	Esnaude, Charente	3 lbs.	...	...	Stone-fall. France.
	Sept. 21	Aigle; Paris	large	...	6½"	cast shadows. Dauphine.
	Nov. 1	Milan	...	...	...	fireball.
	Dec. 14	Connecticut, U.S.	> Venus	...	1" to 5"	streak 10" visible; seen over the whole state.
	30	Trebnitz	...	N. to S.	...	by day-light; bright silver-white; sparks after.
1838.	Jan. 2	Breslau	large	N.E to S.W	streak 2'	cast shadows; blue, red.
	Mar. 17	Kensington, London	5' diam.	N.W. to N.E.?	30° in 1½"	large bolide; brilliant; streak 10'; tailed. Vanished 30° above horizon, leaving a reddish trace; white nucleus, one edge red, the opposite purple or blue.
*	Apr. 18	Akburpoor, India	4 lbs.	...	...	Stone-fall; near Cawnpore.
	May 18	Michigan, New York	...	...	...	brilliant meteor; burst; also sen in Canada..
*	June 6	Chandakapore, Berar, India	...	...	...	Stone-fall; 3 fragments; sp. gr. 3·53.
	Aug. 9	Germany	...	...	streak 10"	fine meteor; or August 10. Same as Zurich, Aug. 10 (Wolf's Catalogue)?.
*	Oct. 13	Cape of Good Hope	many	N.W. to S.E.	9½ A.M.	Stone-fall; carbonaceous-like; at Bokkewelds.
	Nov. 13	Cherbourg	large	horizontal	quick	fireball.
	16	Condé-sur-Noir	...	...	...	a fine meteor.
	?	Palmacottah; S. India	= moon	...	streak 20'	gradually paled and faded away.
1839.	Jan. 6	Milan	...	...	...	fireball.
	12	Parma	...	...	...	ditto.
	Feb.6	ditto	...	...	...	ditto.
*	13	Little Piney, U.S.	50 lbs.?	N.E. to S.W.	3½P.M.	Stone-fall; sp. gr. 3·5. Pulaski county.
	May 7	Parma	...	...	...	fireball.
1839.	June 6	Geneva; Paris	8 > Venus	S.E to N.W.	...	burst like a rocket; from zenith to horizon. Paris; Cambray; Lausanne. &anp;c. Over a district of 140 leagues square: this fireball presented nearly the same appearance at all these places, and must have been very high up.
	July 6	Parma	...	...	...	fireball.
	11	Plaisance	...	...	...	ditto; also at Zurich?.
	Aug. 7	at sea, 44°N. and 42°W.	...	...	streak 1'	a fine fireball.
	13	Parma	...	...	...	fireball.
	26	Albania	large	N. to S.	streak 20'?	quick; from a point to nearly daylight. (August 14, O. Style?).
	Sept. 3	Parma	...	...	...	fireball; September 13?. A singular reddish meteoritic light, or crimson vapour seen between 10 P.M. and 3 A.M., of the 4th September, in London, like a sheet of fire, accompanied with multitudes of falling stars (see Year Book of Facts for 1840, p. 270).
	10	Ghent	...	...	...	ditto.
	Oct. 6	Plaisance	...	...	...	ditto.
*	Nov.	Mexico (Nopalero)	...	W. to E.	2 P.M.	at a height of 1400 meters; trail of light and detonation. Nopalero, Mexico. Beginning of the month.
	Nov. 1	Rusia	...	...	...	fireball.
	6	Parma	...	...	...	ditto.
	8	Edinburgh	2 > moon	N.W. to S.E.	5"	increased gradually from size of Venus. Moved nearly straight down.
*	8	Prague	...	...	...	fireball.
	9	Antigua	...	E. to W.	daybreak	ditto; followed by 3 detonations; streak.
	10	Parma	...	...	...	ditto.
	12	?	...	...	...	ditto.
	29	Naples	large	W. to E.	...	before sunset; turned back and went N.E to S.W.! Naples. At first W. to E., then when over the Adriatic Sea, turned back and passed over the kingdom of Naples, from the Abruzzi Mountains to Naples, vanishing finally over the bay, S.W. of Sansillippo; long train, which reflected prismatic colours in the sunlight.
	Dec. 18	Breslau	...	S.W. to N.E.	streak 4"	fireball.
1840.*	Jan. 8	Apenrade; Altona	1/3 moon's d.	E.S.E. to W.N.W.	...tail 1'	large, quick, bright; casting shadows; detonation.
	Feb. 6	Sandwich Islands	= moon	N.W. to S.E.	...	bolide.
1840.	Feb 6	Brussels	...	S.E to N.W.	...	fine fireball.
	8	Copenhagen	...	...	...	fireball.
	17	Berne	...	...	...	ditto.
	Mar. 17	Canada	...	...	...	large bolide. Since said to be a false account.
	Apr. 28	Parma	4 > Venus	S.E. to N.W.	slow	ditto.
	May 2	Parma	...	...	...	bolide.
*	9	Kirghiz Steppes, Tartary	...	...	...	Stone-fall; stone 8 inches in length.
*	13	Connecticut, U.S.	> full moon	S.E. to N.W.	...	large bolide; streak several seconds. Same as next?.
		Albany, New York	...	...	3 A.M.	streak 3' or 4'. Detonation in 15".
	23	Parma	...	S.W. to N.E.	...	large bolide; bluish; 40° high at first..
	29	United States	...	...	...	large bolide.
	31	Parma	...	S. to N.	...	bluish.
*	June 12	Uden, Brabant, Holland	¾ lb.	...	10½ A.M.	Stone-fall; June 11?.
*	July 17	Casale, Piedmont	11 lbs.	E. to W.	7½ A.M.	Stone-fall. At Cereseto.
	30	Vienna	...	...	streak 15'	bolide.
	Aug. 2	Frankfort	...	...	...	ditto.
	3	France	...	...	...	ditto.
	7	Naples	...	...	...	ditto.
	13	Peru	...	...	...	fireball.
	16	Toronto	...	...	...	ditto.
*	Oct.	Concord, New Hampshire, U.S.	large	...	8½ P.M.	meteor and detonations. Stone said to have been found, but possibly not meteoritic; weighs 3·70 grs; contains no iron, only silica, magnesia, and a little soda; like dross inside; outside white shining enamel; the composition is very like that, however, of Chladnite.
	7	Dublin and Dundalk	large	...	...	bright as moon; whitish; 43 miles high..
	18	Paris	4½' diam.	N.W. to S.E.	2½"	fine bolide.
	29	Brussels	...	...	...	bolide.
	Nov. 2	Jorieux, France	...	N.E. to S.E.	...	brilliant.
	Dec. 4	Zurich	...	...	...	fireball.
	25	Moravia, &c.	...	N.W. to S.E.	5"	like a Bengal-light; seen also at Peterwardein.
	27	Mitau	...	N.E. to S.W.	...	large fireball.
	29	Tajilsk	brilliant	N.E. to S.W.	...	ditto, bluish; tail 15 meters long.
1841.	Feb?	all over Assam	...	...	...	a splendid meteor..
	25	Parma, &c.	...	...	...	meteor. Same evening also at Cherbourg and Chanteloup. A stone or some substance? said to have fallen at Chanteloup in N. France, but very doubtful.
	27	Parma; Guastalla	...	...	...	two fine meteors.
	Mar. 8	Parma; Guastalla	...	...	2'	fireball; burst.
	15	Princetown, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.	...	...	...	large fireball; 840 meters diam.'.; bluish.
*	21	St. Menchould, France	large	...	...	fireball and detonation; or 22 March.
*	22	Grüneberg, Silesia	2½ lbs.	...	3½ P.M.	Stone-fall; sp. gr. 3·72.
	24	Geneva	8 > Venus	...	4"	burst without noise.
	30	Geneva	...	...	...	bolide.
	May 13	Brussels	...	E.N.E. to W.S.W	5"	burst with sparks and many colours.
1841.	May. 16	Montargis, France	...	E. to W.	...	bright; also at Essonne.
	24	Naples	...	...	slow	brilliant.
	June 9	Angers; Agen; Bordeaux	large	S.E. to N.W.	77° in 5"	slow; cast shadows, 10 centimeters in diameter. June 9. Agen, Toulouse, Bagnoles, &c. Supposed to have a geocentric retrograde movement in an hyperbola; apparent speed 77,510 relative as regards earth, 77,092; absolute in space 74,019 meters per second; moved parallel to the horizon at an altitude of 46°; long blue train of light after; height 67 miles. See Comptes Redus, vol. xxxii. No. 16, Calculations, &c. by M. Petit. 9 P.M.
*	12	Triguèrre, Chateau-Renard	75 lbs.	...	1½ P.M.	Stone-fall; sp. gr. 3·54. Loiret, France.
	14	France	...	...	...	fireball.
	July 4	Blois, Brussels	...	...	...	ditto.
*	17	Milan	...	...	...	aërolitic; according to Quetelet..
	20	Geneva	...	...	4" or 5"	no streak or tail; alternately dull and bright.
	Aug. 10	Iwan, Hungary	...	...	10 P.M.	no meteor or detonation; stones said to have fallen.August 10. Iwan. Stones not larger than peas said to have fallen, not meteoric, according to M. Haidinger and Ehrenberg, simply pea-iron ore.
	18	Paris, Rheims	¾ moon	S. to N.	3" or 4"	horizontal; rapid; no streak or tail; round; cast shadows. August 18. Reims and Paris. Said to have been 730,400 meters from the earth; 12,800 feet in diameter. (452 miles high?)
	20	Cofu	...	...	...	fireball.
	Sept. 9	Paris	...	...	streak 1¼'	bright; yellowish-red.
	20	Geneva, &c.	...	...	...	a bright fireball and long tail; high up?.
	28	Paris	...	W. to E.	...	ditto. ditto.
	29	Bayonne	...	...	...	fireball.
	Oct. 8	Dijon	nearly=moon	...	slow	like a rocket.
*	Nov. 5	Bourbon-Vendée, France	11 lbs.	...	...	Stone-fall.
	8	Parma	2> Venus	E. to W.	...	parallel to horizon for 25°; (or 6th November?).
	9	Hereford	...	...	...	large; down.
	10	North America	...	...	...	large bolide; seen in many places.
*	15	Langensalza	large	...	...	ditto; burst with a tremendous detonation over the town.
*	Dec. 5	Goldberg, Silesia	= full moon	S.W. to N.E.	1'	lighted up all the sky; bluish; detonation?. 6.45 P.M. Silesia, Hirschberg, Breslau, Oderberg, Lukenwald, and other places. In bursting, fell into many stars equal 1st mag. in size. Intense light; some heard a report.
	16	Oels	...	...	slow	oval-shaped fireball.
	21	Glasgow; Stirling	2 > moon	S. to N.	...	very brilliant; tailed; burst; as light as day. Glasgow, &c. Tail consisting of various coloured fire, like a rocket; dazzling; oval body.
	29	St. Maixent, France	...	...	...	large bright fireball; burst into several large pieces without noise..
1842.	Feb. 7	Aargau	...	...	...	fireball.
	9	Toulouse; Agen	=cannon-ball	S.E. to N.W.	slow	probable least distance from earth 15,540 meters. Also seen at Paris.
	19	Basilico, in Switzerland	> moon	N.W. to S.E.	...	bolide.
	20	Wirtemberg	...	W. to E.	...	ditto.
1842.	Mar. 18	Parma	...	...	...	bolide.
	Apr. 11	Charka, India	large	...	streak 4' to 5'	like a rocket. Streak became curved.
*	26	Milena, Croatia	sp. gr. 3·54	...	3 P.M.	Stone-fall, 2½ lbs.
*	June 3	Montpellier; Toulouse	large, = sun	N.E. to S.W.	20° in 5"	cast shadows; blue; sparks; burst 9¼ P.M.; detonation in 2'. Calculations by Petit. See ComptesRendus, vol. xvi. p. 484. Orbit: hyperbolic, with retrograde geocentric motion; apparent speed 71,288 meters per second; relative 71,085; absolute 74,259. N. to S. 184 miles high at first, 12 miles high at last; 45 miles a second. Also seen and heard to explode at St. Beauzires, and Meuse, Département Lozères.
*	4	Aumières, Deép. de la Lozère	7 lbs.?	...	...	Stone-fall; or France.
*	12	Toulon	...	...	...	divided with detonation into two parts.
	July 11	Paris	...	...	station. 3½'	then gradually moved in a circle, 9.10 P.M.; fireball. From this Babinet infers it did not rotate on its axis. Same as the next one.
	11	England?	very large	...	station. 2'	only 2° or 3° above horizon; then slowly descended in the N.W. Probably the same seen elsewhere. This one large and pear-shaped.
	31	Hamburg	...	...	3"	part of streak visible for 10"; greenish.
	Aug. 5	Silesia?	large	N.W. to S.E.	8.20 P.M.	moved parallel to horizon about 4° high; tailed. Seen by Boguslawski, probably at Breslau; had a smoke-like tail; twilight; burst in 10", leaving a black smoke which slowly ascended, broke up and vanished. Baumhauer, in his Catalogue, refers to the stone-fall same day at Harrowgate.
?	5	Harrowgate, Yorkshire.	...	...	5 P.M.	Stone-fall (Kämtz). Very doubtful. A hot stone, like basalt, fell accompanied by whistling in the air and lightning and thunder, said to have fallen, resembling a stone that fell some years before at Cardiff, further particulars of which latter not obtainable at present. See Pogg. Supp. iv. 1854, p. 366; also l'Institut, No. 457. The Harrogate stone is described also as containing silver-white metalic-looking particles. N.B. A very doubtful fall.
	9	Hamburg	...	...	streak 7"	greenish fireball; red streak.
	12	?	15' diam.	N.E. to S.W.	streak 25"	visible 5½"; burst into blue and red fragments and sparks. August 12.? Probably another account from another place of the next one, at Isère. This one is described as having commenced at the Pole Star as a point of light, and like a common shooting-star, increasing to a fireball with a disc of 15'. That part of the streak which was next the part of the fireball which burst, was the first to disappear.
	12	Département de l'Isère	...	...	5" or 6"	beautiful meteor; same as last.
	Sept. 3	Parma	...	...	...	fireball.
	30	Parma	...	...	...	brilliant; high up; alternately bright and dull.
	Oct. 4	Cambridge	...	...	...	fireball.
	18	Hamburgh	= Jupiter	...	streak 7"	ditto.
*	Dec. 5	Epinal, Vosges; Langres	large	...	5½ P.M.	ditto; very bright fireball; great detonation. Eaufroment, near Epinal, Vosges. Immediately after disappearance a series of detonations like artillery; divided into three parts, one of which seemed to fall down to the ground and roll along a meadow; another re-divided and fell like a rain of fire in Epinal; the third passed like a streak of fire along the declivities of Eaufroment, and seemed to touch the ground on the side of the hills. In July 1851, a small mass of meteoric iron was found in the neighbourhood, the product perhaps of this fireball; weight 843 grammes, or 2 lbs.
*	Oct. 23	Silesia, &c.	large	S. to E.	90° in 3"	brightest at first; sparks; detonation; 8½ P.M. All over Silesia; long rumbling sounds in the air afterwards.
*	Nov. 30	N.E. of Ahmedabad	sp. gr. 3·36	...	...	Stone-fall; a shower (Pogg., vol. iv. 1854, p. 366). Between Jeetala and Mor Monnee in Mythee-Caunta (see Edinburgh Journal of Nat. Phil., xlvii. p. 53).
1843.	Jan. 2	Bruges	...	...	...	fireball.
	Feb. 1	Riegersdorf	...	...	...	ditto.
	5	London; Nottingham	large	N.W. to S.E.	quick	a large mass of fire; also seen in Sussex at Arundel. At Nottingham a blood-red mass of fire to S.W.; 55 miles a minute?; low down near horizon; 8 P.M.; seemed very near to the earth.
	Mar. 20	Hamburg	...	...	...	yellowish.
*	25	Bishopsville, S. Carolina	13 lbs.	...	...	Stone-fall; contains no iron; sp. gr. 3·02.
	Apr. 14	Clermont, France	...	W. to E.	quick	became suddenly extinct without bursting.
	May 4	France	large	...	4"	gave light of sun.
*	June 2	Utrecht	5½+14 lbs.	...	8 P.M.	Stone-fall; two fell; sp. gr. 3·57.
	21	Parma	= moon	...	1'	bolide.
	22	Utrecht	...	...	...	ditto.
*	July 26	Manegaon, Khandeish, India	10 indhes d.	...	3 ½ P.M.	stone-fall; black crust.
*	Aug. 6	Westphalia; Rhine	...	...	1 ½ A.M.	bright round disc; 41° high up; suddenly appeared in S.W., detonation in 15" afterwards. The bright round disc gradually dissolved itself into small serpentine portions.
*	Sept. 16	Klein Wenden; Germany	sp. gr. 3·7	...	¼5 P.M.	Stone-fall; 6 lbs. (Nordhausen, near Mülhausen.)
	17	Hamburg	...	...	76° in 7"	slow
	22	Hamburg	...	...	9"	like a comet; tail 14' wide, and 90° long; brilliant. This large tail or streak-band of light lasted 5".
*	Oct. 2	Pont de Bouvoisin	large	...	2 A.M.	bright tail; detonation after.
	16	England	...	...	...	bright streak, for several seconds.
1843.*	Oct 30	Russia	16 lbs.	...	...	Stone-fall; sp. gr. 3·58; with crust. At 20 wersts, S.W. of Werschne-Tschirkaja, Stanitzka, on the Don.
*	Nov. 11	Danube	...	...	5 P.M.	a white cloud high up; loud report; aërolitic?.
	18	Nottingham	3 > Jupiter	...	...	bolide.
	Dec. 11	Limoux; Meuse, France	very large	...	slow	great bolide, equal sun's light; serpentine motion. Limoux, &c.; also at Commeray, and other places. No tail; head threw off in advance, sparks. Remarkable meteor; 5 P.M.
*	21	Zurich, Berne, Alsace	...	...	10 P.M.	very brilliant fireball; two detonations heard. Zurich, &c. Though foggy at the time, the whole country was lightened up for several seconds; the noise heard in the Vosges.
1844.*	Jan.	Corrientes, Brazil	...	...	2 A.M.	Iron-fall; very large mass, several feet diam. Entre Rios, Mocarita, Brazil. Fell with great noise and light (see Phil. Mag. vol. x 1855). So hot when it fell that it could not be approached nearer than 20 or 30 feet.
	20	Naples	...	...	...	bolide.
	25	Niort?	...	...	...	ditto.
	Feb. 8	Parma	...	...	...	fireball.
	12	Wologda, Russia?	...	S.E. to N.W.	...	horizontal; undulatory motion; greenish streak. At Usting, in the Government of Wologda. Bright nucleus, composed of many separate stars; tailed.
	18	Parma; Grübern	...	...	...	fireball.
?	20	Hanover	...	...	...	mid-day, during a snow-storm; detonation, but no meteor seen. Possibly a clap of thunder only.
	Apr. 3	Sienna; Naples	...	...	...	fireball.
1844.	Apr. 11	Edinburgh	large	N. to S.	slow, 5½"	dark red-coloured fireball.
*	29	Killeter, co. Tyrone	sp. gr. 3·76	...	3 ½ P.M.	Stone-fall. No meteor; many small ones; musical sounds in the air.
	May 11	Hamburg	...	...	...	golden-yellow meteor; red train.
	12	Milan	...	...	...	fireball.
	July 10	Hamburg	...	...	...	very beautiful; golden-yellow.
*	20	Parma; Nurenberg	2/3 moon	...	9 P.M.	detonation 4' afterwards: also Bamberg and Brussels.
	24	Brussels	...	...	...	fireball.
	27	Bruges	...	...	...	serpentine course; reddish..
	31	Parma	...	...	...	fireball.
	Aug. 8	Brittany	...	...	...	ditto.
	10	Hamburg	= Venus	...	...	greenish fireball.
	16	Darmstadt; Frankfort	...	...	...	fireball.
	Sept. 4	Bombay	very large	E. to W.	streak 20'	streak or train of light, large and bright.
	5	Overall, Silesia	very large	E. to W.	8", slow	nearly horizontal; reddish streak; conical. At Hirschberg; horizontal; slow; E. to W.; like a wine-decanter; greenish-yellow tail; of 4' or 6' in width; brilliant. Also seen at Posen; must have been very high up; detailed accounts sent in from 35 places; burst into several bright stars, which vanished, leaving only a reddish streak; at Breslau, like a large bright lamp; moved in a curved arc of 50° in length; tail 1½° long.
	10	Belgium; Bruges	large	...	2'	at Bruges like a rocket, 20' wide and 7 meters long. Bluish; at first a point, then much larger when falling; 4½ centimeters diameter.
	20	Belgium	...	...	...	fireball.
	24	Naples and S. Italy	...	...	...	ditto.
	30	Lombardy	...	...	...	also one at Hamburg same night.
?	Oct. 2	St. Andrew's, Cuba	...	...	...	explosive meteor; aërolitic?.
	8	Vals	...	S.S.W. to N.N.E.	slow	horizontal; small tail.
	10	Bonn	...	...	...	fine meteor.
	15	Bombay	large	...	...	large meteor.
*	21	Laysac, France	3 lbs. ?	...	6.45 A.M.	Stone-fall and detonations?; sp. gr. 3·55. There is some doubt whether the stone said to have been found, was meteoritic; it is doubtful where even it is preserved.
*	27	Parce sur Sarthe	= moon	E. to W.	2" or 3"	dazzling; loud detonations 3' or 4' after. France. 9.40 P.M. Also seen at Angers=moon (see Note A,from vol. xx. of Comptes Rendus, p. 1103). Note A. October 27, 1844. Petit thinks this an intra-stellar body, i.e. one that traverses space from one star or sun to another, and which meeting our solar system, merely traverses it to return again to the stellar system from which it came. Petit's calculations give, from the observations made of this meteor from different points, velocity=77,600 metres per second as regards the earth, and v.=73,540 metres absolute velocity in space per second; and consequently it describes an hyperbola round the sun with a direct heliocentric movement, i.e. it does not describe a comet's orbit.--Note. Observations on meteor movements must always be too imperfect to be relied upon in these kind of calculations.
	Nov. 2	Bombay	...	...	4"	brilliant meteor.
	17	ditto	...	...	2"	ditto ditto. Also on the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st Nov.
*	20	Laysac; Aveyron, &c.	very large	E. to W.	streak 40"	brighter than moon; conical; 2 A.M. Great and numerous detonations. Laysac, Lozère, &c., and other places. Seen 25° above horizon; dazzling; noise followed in 1'. The one at 3 A.M., said to have been a distinct and different one; perhaps doubtful. Comptes Rendus.
	20	Laysac, S. France	½d. moon	N.E. to S.W.	3 A.M.	round; silver-white.
	Dec. 8	Paris and other places	...	N.W. to S.E.	...	fireball; not well seen; streak from zenith to horizon.
	11	Limoux	...	N. to S.	...	beautiful meteor.
1845.*	Jan. 16	Cette, S. France	large	N. to S.	10 A.M.	fine bolide; day-light; great explosion and noise. Also at Laysac.
?	20	Grüneberg, Silesia	...	N.W. to S.E.		remarkable fiery meteor and tail; detonation?.
	27	Hamburg	...	...	...	fireball.
	31	Nottingham	...	...	...	tailed; red streak.
	Feb. 17	Paris	...	...	...	bolide.
	Mar. 10	Hamburg	...	...	...	ditto.
	29	London	...	...	...	curious stationary meteor..
	May 1	Dijon	...	E.N.E to W.S.W.	slow	bluish-white.
	June 13	Villeneuve, St. Georges	= moon	N.N.E to S.S.W.	slow	reddish streak; round nucleus.
1845.	June 18	Syria; Malta	? 5 > moon!	...	streak 60'	slow, indistinctly seen; two very large together, nearly joined. Ainab and Lebanon, near coast. Very great and brilliant meteoric light, double headed?. A large (?) meteor seen at samr time in Lat. 36° 41', Long. 13° 14'; however, Sir W. S. Harris considers this was an electrical phenomenon. See Year Book of Facts for 1849, p. 273-274.
	28	Gooiland	...	...	...	fireball.
	July 14	London	...	...	...	fine meteor; tailed.
	16	Belgium	...	...	...	ditto.
	Aug. 10	London and Oxford	large	...	...	fireball.
	31	Grenelle, France	...	...	...	ditto.
*	Sept. 1	Fayetteville, N. Carolina	...	...	...	meteoric light and loud detonations; Aug. 31?..
	6	Rhine country	> Juipter	...	...	greenish; no tail or streak.
	7	Calcutta	...	N. to S.	3"	brilliant; tailed; noise like a bullet whistling?.
	Oct. 24	Bonn	...	...	streak 4'	tailed; curious variation in movement.
	31	Milan	...	...	...	fireball; no noise..
	Nov. 2	ditto	...	...	...	ditto. ditto.
	4	Bombay	...	...	...	ditto.
	20	Cramaux	...	...	...	ditto.
*	Dec. 3	Mentz	?	...	...	burst over the town, a large fireball with much smoke and noise.
	3	Paris	2 > Juipter	E.N.E to W.S.W	streak 2"	meteor; fine streak; 6.10 A.M.
	9	Bombay	...	...	...	remarkable meteor.

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