34. 



ON THE ORBIT OF THE NOVEMBER METEORS. 



[From the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. xxvu. (1867.)] 



IT is known to the President and to several members of the Society 

 that I have been for some time past engaged in researches respecting the 

 November meteors, and allusion is made to some of my earlier results in 

 the last Annual Report. As my investigations are now in some measure 

 complete, and the results which I have obtained appear to me important, 

 I have thought that they may not be without interest for the Society. 



In a memoir on the November Star Showers, by Professor H. A. Newton, 

 contained in Nos. Ill and 112 of The American Journal of Science and 

 Arts, the author has collected and discussed the original accounts of 13 

 displays of the above phenomenon in years ranging from A.D. 902 to 1833. 



The following table exhibits the dates of these displays, and the Earth's 

 longitude at each date, together with the same particulars for the shower 

 of November last, which have been added for the sake of completeness. 



