It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

a. He was one of seven children;
Elizabeth Rose Wills (August 1831–23 May 1832). London 15 April 1914).

He achieved fame as the second-in-command of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north finding a route across the continent from the settled areas of Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria. June/July 1861) was a British surveyor who also trained for a while as a surgeon.