_ A day or two later, in lat. 10° N., lon. 234° W. 
* Variable winds cool the atmosphere; numerous falling stars, coming particu- 
Jarly from the south, shed a magic light,’ &c.—Jb. p. 110. 
sempre the first of July, 1817, when a little south of the equator : 
-“ Falling stars illumined the night ae whee sated than in the northern zone, 
and generally fell pine midnight in the south, and towards morning in 
northeast.—Jb. p. 1 
(4.) In an account of the meteoric shower of Nov. 13, 1832, as seen 
at Brussels, is this remark :— . 
“Tl en est qui ont prétendu se rappeler que les mémes signes avoient précédé 
de auplaces jours i bataille de Waterloo ;”—[June 18, 1815.] Gautier, in Bib. 
Univ. de Geneve, 5 98. 
7. Shooting Stars of Arigtiat 10, 1841 vey few observations made 
in this country on the meteors of August 10, 1841, were published at 
p- 399, of the last yolume, The following European observations, 
communicated to me, with others, by M. Quetelet, agree with those 
above mentioned, in showing that the meteoric sprinkle of August 10th, 
did not fail the present year. It will be remembered that after 10h. 
45m. P. M. on the 10th, the moon, sixteen days old, was above the ho- 
rizon ; and further, that of the meteors visible at any time, one person 
cannot detect more than a fourth part. E. C. H 
1. Ghent, Belgium. Professor Duprez, watching in the S. W. quad- 
rant, saw alone, during three hours, Sifty eight shooting stars, as fol- 
lows: viz. from $h. 30m. to 10h. six; 10h. to 11h. fifieen; Lih. te 
12h. twenty four; 12h. to 12h. 30m. thirteen. Nearly all were very 
brilliant ; moving from N. E. to 8. W. and leaving luminous trains be- 
hind them. 
2. Parma, Italy. M. Colla, with a friend, observed on the night of 
Aug. 9, 1841, eighty shooting stars between Sh. 44m. and 2h. 14m. of 
the next morning ; on the night of the 10th, two hundred and eighty 
three, as follows: viz. from 8h. 47m. to Sh. 59m. five; 9h. to 9h. 58m. 
thirty five; 10h. Im. to 10h. 56m. forty one; 11h. Im. to 11h. 59m. 
thirty seven; Oh. Im. to Oh. 58m. forty four; Ih. 2m. to Th. 59m. forty 
four; 2h. 2m. to 2h. 58m. forty three ; 3h. 2m. to 3h. 40m. thirty four. 
On the night of the 11th, he observed eighty two, between 8h. 37m. and 
midnight. 
8. Meteorology.—In Vol. xx, p. 402, we gave a notice of the labors 
of M: on of te 7 in France, relative to a grand generalization of 
phenomena and the resulting laws, and added an extract 
ofa ile ee M. Morin t senior editor. 
In a subsequent. See soul, (220 m 
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