180 On the Shooting Stars of Aug. 9th and 10th, 1837. 
Arr. XVI.—Additional Observations on the Shooting Stars of 
August 9th and 10th, 1837; communicated by Epwarp C. 
HERRICK. 
Since the last number of this Journal was printed, circumstan- 
ces have prevented me from making any further search for August 
meteoric showers. Many more doubtless remain to be discov- 
ered, but the work of bringing them to light must be left to those 
who have access to libraries more extensive than this city con- 
tains. 
In a postscript on p. 364 of the last volume, reference was made 
to Mr. R. W. Haskins’s translation of the Report of M. Arago, 
(given in the Comptes Rendus,) concerning the meteors seen in 
August in various parts of Europe. The following is an abstraet 
of that part of the Report which relates to the year 1837. 
“ Paris,—M. Arago’s eldest son and one of his friends, counted 
in one hour, beginning 11h. 15m. P. M. of August 10, one hue 
dred and seven meteors. From Oh. 57m. to 3h. 26m. A. M. of 
the next 1 (August 11,) MM. Bouvard and Laugier saw 
one h hundred and ur meteors. The majority of all these 
radiated from the constellation Taurus. 
_* Chateaurour, France, N. lat. 46° 48’, E. long. 1° 40/,—M. de 
la Tremblais, travelling in an open carriage, from 10h. to 10h. 
35m. August 9, saw thirty meteors. He noted but a small por- 
tion of the whole number visible. About 10. P. M. August 10, 
he saw five or six meteors in fifteen minutes.” 
To the foregoing facts, I am happy to add the following impor- 
tant document, which was given me by my friend Mr. Samuel 
St. John, soon after his recent return from Europe. It will be 
noticed, that the observations which it contains, (made by himself 
and Dr. Parker,) relate to the night of the 9th of August. As M. 
Arago makes no mention of any meteoric display at Paris on that 
ai it may be presumed that the sky there was overcast at the 
“ ot While travelling in Switzerland, in August last, (1837,) im 
eompany with Dr. Willard Parker, of Pittsfield, Mass., I had the 
io ae wineating a remarkable exhibition of shooting stars- 
nomenon excited in us unusual interest, but our situation 
se enw with as much antsanny phi 
