Clea P Cilumbic,. ‘Tenn., N. lat. 35° 36; W. lon. 87°.—Mr. Thomas 2 
~R. Dutton has communicated to me the following observations made 
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on the night of August 9, 1839. ‘From Oh. 41m. A. M. (Aug. 10,) 
0 Ih. 31m., Isaw 45 shooting stars; three fourths of these pro- 
_ ceeded from a radiant; about one fourth had trains. From 2h. 36m. 
to 3h. 6m. I saw 35; from 3h. 6m. to 3h. 36m. I saw 20. Of those 
which had trains, scarcely one moved in an unconformable direction : 
of those seen from 2h. 36m. to 3h. 6m. about three fourths Jeft trains 
behind them, and five sixths of them obeyed the radiant. The meteors 
Were not as large or as brilliant as those of Jast year, but resembled ~ 
them in other particulars. I observed the progression of the radiating 
point noticed last year by Mr. Schaeffer.” (This Journal, pos Xxxv, 
p. 169.) 
2. At Tunbridge Wells, (Eng.) N. lat. 51° 7; E. lon. 15, “Prof 
Powell saw on the 10th of August, 1839, a very brilliant exhibition 
of meteoric stars: they averaged from 15 to 20 in the quarter of an 
hour: they all left trains of light after them: the motion of all was 
from N. toward the 8.” Lond. Atheneum, Aug.'31, 1839, p. 657. 
3. At Brandsbury House, about 3 miles N. W. of London. Ed- 
ward Cooper, Esq., aided by Messrs. Jones and Fenton, observed 
during 3h. 22m. on the night of Aug. 10, 1839. The sky was at 
times ‘puitially-overcast. “The average number of meteors observed 
in the half hemisphere to which we attended, was 44. Three or four 
were very splendid, but none equal to the finest seen Aug. 10, 1838, 
at Geneva. The general result however fully establishes the fact that 
the nights of the 10th or 11th of August, furnish a most remarkable 
exhibition of these interesting celestial travellers.” Extract from a 
‘paper by Mr. Cooper, in Lond. and Ed. Phil. Mag., Nov. 1839, p. . 
4. Breslau. N. lat. 51° 63’; E. lon. 17° 2. The St. James’s Chron- 
icle, of London, Sept. 5, 1839, contains a translation of an account 
published by Von Boguslawski i in the Prussian State Gazette, of me- 
teoric observations, at the August epoch, made under his ee 
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was overcast. The. 
days previous to August 10, 183s , the sky 
of the 10th was clear, and at dusk, it w {an unusual fall 
of meteors had begun. Arrangements were made for observing the 
numbers, times, durations, Ee atlas Re &c. of the meteors. 
These however were not compl until 9h. 26m. P. M., when all 
the observers, fifteen in number, w be tee Eleven (?) were sta- 
tioned at the six eee of th » Obs atory, and four at the clocks. 
In the course of 5h. 48m. ending 3h. 14m. (A. M. of the 11th, 
™ when daylight interfered,) they noticed one thousand and eight eer, 
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