288 Scientific Intelligence. 
Ill. Astronomy. 
1. Shooting Stars of August 10, 1853.—The observations here re- 
corded were made at New Haven, Conn., by. Messrs. Francis Bradley 
and Lyman Baird, with myself, on the night of Wednesday, August 10, 
were stationed together, in the open air, each observer 
having in his view, as far as practicable, a third part of the visible 
heavens. The time was highly favorable, the air being clear and calm, 
and the moon absent. Systematic observations were commenced at 
midnight, and continued until 3h. 25m. a. mM. of the Lith, and the fol- 
lowing table shows the number of different shooting stars seen by us 
during this period : 
8. N. N. W. E. N. E. TOTAL. 
04 to 1h A. M. 48 27 35 110 
eae a 42 34 39 115 
See we 57 31 31 119 
a ee Ae 26 7 ll 44 
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Besides the meteors above enumerated, we saw about twenty during 
the quarter of an hour preceding midnight, rejected fifteen or twenty 
doubtful cases, and lost some after three o’clock on account of advancing 
daylight, and other causes. No meteor was twice reckoned, although 
many were of course seen in common by two observers. 
f these meteors the large majority, probably not less than three- 
fourths, moved in paths which traced back would intersect very near 
cy stars of the first magnitude, while a few equalled in splendor the 
planet Venus. 
It is evident from the foregoing statements that the periodical me- 
teoric display of August 9-10th has appeared this year in usual form, 
and in numbers not much diminished. In order to render the numbers 
. 4. horizon, covering the stars Castor and Pollux, stretching UP 
auri, while 
somewhat hazy. 
During the night of Tuesday, the 9th inst., the sky was too cloudy 
observation. E. C, Herrick. 
