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Crumpsall"; "Obsen^ation oftheMeteoric Shower, November 

 13-14, 1866." His observations were directed principally 

 to the determination of the time of maximum frequency, 

 and the position of the radiant point ; he also made an 

 attempt to estimate roughly the relative number of meteors 

 of different magnitudes. In this paper he goes on to say, 

 " As I had the good fortune to witness the great meteoric 

 shower which occurred on the morning of the 1 3 th November, 

 1833, I may state that the late display was far inferior to 

 it both in the number of meteors seen, and in the brilliancy 

 of the larger ones, and I am therefore inclined to think that 

 a much finer display may be expected to occur in November 

 next. At the time of the 1833 great shower I was at sea 

 off the west coast of Central America, and although then I 

 knew little about meteors, and the idea of a radiant point 

 had not, so far as I am aware, occurred to any astronomer 

 or meteorologist, the tendency of the great majority of the 

 meteors to diverge from a particular region of the heavens 

 was so strongly marked that it at once engaged my atten- 

 tion, and I find, on referring to my notes, that I fixed the 

 central point of this region in the constellation Cancer, a few 

 degrees east of the stars c and y, and not in Leo as 

 observed by Professor Olmsted and others in the north- 

 western portion of the North American Continent. A great 

 number of the meteors however had other radiant points, 

 and some of the finest moved in long horizontal arcs, or in a 

 direction nearly perpendicular to that of the main stream." — 

 " Observations of the New Variable Star T Coronae." This 

 star was remarkable for the great and rapid changes In the 

 intensity of its light. When first observed by Mr. Baxendell 

 on May 15th Its Intensity was estimated to be 331*2, the 

 intensity of the light of a star of the loth magnitude being 

 taken as unity ; by June 1 6th It had sunk to 17 ; it is probable 

 that its intensity on May 12th when it was first seen could 

 not be less than 912-1. An inspection of the curve 



