Date. Hour. 
1863.| h ms 
Aug.12)11 26 p.m. 
12)11 30 30 
p.m. 
12)11 32 30 
p-m. 
I. Brograpuicat Nortcr or E. C. Herrick, late Treasurer of Yale College, 
Edward Charles Herrick, the late promoter of meteoric astronomy in 
REPORT—1863, 
Place of 
APPENDIX. 
: Apparent Size. Colour. Duration. Altitude and — 
Observation. ‘Azimuth, 
Weston - super -|=I1st mag.* ...... \WETUG ie eos: 1 second ...... From 6 Bootis to 
Mare. Coron. 
Clifton (Bristol) |=2nd mag.x ....,.|scceeessceeeeeeees 1 second ...... Centre 4 « Pe 
B Equulei. 
love Were gcgncesece SSSiGh TAS aopsed Seco Soon cece 1 second ...... From 3 a, Z Aqui 
to 3 (n, 9) Ser 
pentis. 
Position, or 
Newhaven, Connecticut, U.S. : 
America, and the subject of this notice, was born at Southampton, Long 
Island, New York, on the 24th of February 1811. 
As clerk in an extensive 
book-store, he cultivated an early taste for accurate knowledge by successful 
studies in entomology. After a memorable storm of falling stars in November 
1833 had fixed the attention of scientific men, Herrick directed his talents to 
the field of meteoric astronomy, and remained until the middle of the past 
year the most vigilant observer and the most careful recorder of wandering 
stars inthe New World. We owe to Herrick and to Quetelet the knowledge 
of the periodical meteors of the 10th of August. 
The discovery of thisim- 
portant date was made independently by Herrick in 1837, and by M. Quetelet 
Both observers maintained after that time a yearly watch for the 
display, and published their observations in the Journals of their respective 
in 1836*. 
countries. 
middle of October, and on the 6th to the 8th of December, their greater fre- 
quency in the morning hours of the night, and their greater abundance in 
America than in Europe, are facts of which we owe the earliest knowledge 
to the observations of Herrick. M. Quetelet thus wrote to Herrick in 1861. 
«The additions which you have made to science will always be among the 
most important and among the most useful for the conclusions which have 
Herrick died on the 11th of June 1862, 
in the 52nd year of his age, being Librarian of Yale College in 1843, Librarian 
and Treasurer in 1852, and Treasurer in 1858. 
Committee of the Connecticut Academy for the observation of luminous 
meteors by Professor H. A. Newton, of Yale College, whose recent contribu- 
tions to the American Journal of Science greatly advance the present state of 
hitherto been drawn from them.” 
The annual frequency of meteors 
meteoric science. 
on the 20th of April, in the 
He is succeeded in the 
ARGS emg ap ey 3 
II. Merrrors DOUBLY OBSERVED. 
(1.) 1859, October 25th, 7" 15™ p.m. 
The meteor seen at Holyhead, and twelve miles W. of Athlone (in Ireland), 
* American Journal of Science, lst Series, vol. xxxiii. p. 401. 
