Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1852-53. By the REV. BADEN POWELL, M.A., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. IN submitting to the British Association a Sixth Report on Luminous Meteors, I have to acknowledge the valuable contributions of the same scientific friends who have on former occasions so extensively aided the objects of the Association in keeping up this record; which, it is to be hoped, may eventually prove of some service, by the accumulation of facts to illustrate the laws, and thence the origin and nature, of these remarkable phæ nomena. I could indeed have wished that it were in my power now to have entered upon some kind of classification, at least, of these perplexing appearances, on which to have founded perhaps some conjectural hints towards their theory; but the pressure of other avocations has for the present hindered the prosecution of a design, which I, nevertheless look forward to taking in hand at no distant period. August 31, 1853. B 1853. |