Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1131 17 1131-17-p090

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412 W. F. Denning its occasional brilliant showers of Leonids, February seems in recent years to have provided marvellous fireballs of a unique pattern, and qutite unmatched in the history of meteoric astron- omy, On February 8, 1894, there was a great daylight fireball, appearing in the sunshine soon after noon, On February 22, 1909, a fireball left a streak several hundreds of miles long which remained visible two hours, and drifted about 236 miles to the north-west over the English Channel...