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persons, on the night of Aug. 10-11, (2) 1840, observed three hundred — 
and fifty six shooting stars, as follows:— + 
From 8h. 23m. to 8h 56m - - - 10 
9 “os Ge - - 27 
10 “10 58 - - - - 
il “i }§ 69 .-s - - - 30 
0: ji 59 (BO is - - 48 
1 e420 == - - - 38 
RS nkil esd 260-2 - - - 102- 
hh Bo 4h & Bo - - «das we 
- During the night of Aug. 9-10, (?) 1840, the same observers saw 
one hundred and eighty shooting stars, as follows :— . ey 
From 8h. 49m. to 10h. 56m - . - 2 
“i 2) 48 - - - 4 
O° 6.n2% oe 68 :-- - - - 34 
ot GS Hd SE» - - . 47 
G3 Potts BGO sss - - - 69° 
Senge 
At Ghent, on the night of Aug. 9-10, 1840. 
alone, ninety seven sho 
From 9h 
. = 
Miscellanies. 
cs 
o 33:32 = 
oting stars, as follows :-— 
Oh 
30m. to 10h, - - 
oN Gee = & 
il “12. altos 
12 “4 - - 
3 &.1@ ‘a es 
Sir J. F. W. Herschel states, that of twenty 
teors, which he observed at Collingwood, Eng., between 13h. 
- 2 
, Prof. Duprez observed 
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six considerable mé- 
25m. and 
4h. 20m., on the morning of Aug. 10, 1840, twenty four radiated 
very precisely from 7 Persei. 
point, according to his observations, was 8 Camelopardali. 
On the 10th Aug. 1839, the radiant 
C. H. 
5. Meteors of November —The year 1838 appears to have been the last 
of the late annual series of the November meteoric showers. 
observed here, or elsewhere so far as we have learned, in 1839; 
None was 
and such 
is also the result of observations for the present year. On the night of the 
11th I was on the look-out, but the sky was constantly overc 
ast. On the 
night of the 12-13th, in company with a friend, I watched until 4 o'clock. 
It was cloudy the greater part of the night, but clear about 
between 3 and 4,—at the very time when, according to former obse 
tions, the meteors might have been expected in greatest frequency ; 
we saw but a single shooting star. On the morning of the 
at4 o'clock. ‘The sky was clear, but no meteors were seen. 
half an hour 
ryar 
yet 
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