Meteoric Shower of 1836. 387 
shower appeared in a more imposing form, and was seen at Mocha, 
in Arabia ;* in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ;+ near Orenburg, 
in Russia ;{ and at Pernambuco, in South America.¢ The magnifi- 
cent Meteoric Shower of 1833, is too well known to require the re- 
cital of any particulars. Of the recurrence of the phenomenon at 
the corresponding period in 1834, and in 1835, evidence has been 
presented to the public in previous numbers of this Journal. (See 
Vols. xxvii, pp. 339 and 417. xxix, 168.) 
I now feel authorized to assert, that the Meteoric Shower re- 
appeared on the morning of the 13th November, 1836. 
It has been supposed by some, that the appearance of an extra- 
ordinary number of shooting stars, at the several anniversaries since 
the great phenomenon of November, 1833, can be accounted for by 
the fact, that so general an expectation of such an event has been 
excited, and that so many persons have been on the watch for it. 
Having, however, been much in the habit of observing phenomena 
of this kind, I can truly say, that those exhibitions of shooting stars 
which have for several years occurred on the 13th or 14th of No- 
vember, are characterized by several peculiarities which clearly dis- 
tinguish them from ordinary shooting stars. Such peculiarities are 
the following. 
1. The number of meteors, though exceedingly variable, is much 
greater than usual, especially of the larger and brighter kinds. 
2. An uncommonly large proportion leave duminous trains. 
3. The meteors, with few exceptions, all appear to proceed from 
_ @ Common center, the position of which has been uniformly in nearly 
the same point in the heavens, viz. in some part of the constellation 
Leo. 
4. The principal exhibition has at all times, and at all places, oc- 
curred between midnight and sunrise, and the maximum from three 
to four o'clock. 
- In all these particulars, the Meteoric Showers of 1834, 5, and 6, 
have resembled that of 1833; while no person, so far as I have 
heard, has observed the same combination of circumstances on any 
other occasion within the same period. I have not supposed it ne- 
cessary, in order to establish the identity of these later meteoric 
* Amer. Jour. xxvi, 136. + Ib. 349. 
t Ed. New Phil. Jour. July, 1836. 
§ New York American, Nov. 15, 13836. 
