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REPOUT — 1867. 



dencies to other maxima were observed at twenty minutes and thirty-five 

 minutes after one, agreeing nearly with the previous curves. 



pig. 2. Average rate per minute of meteors observed at the Cape of Good 



Hope, and at Leyton, in Essex, November 14th, a.m., 1866. 



■ At theCajJc of Good Hope. — Eoyal Astronomical Society's ' Monthly Notices,' 

 vol. xxvii. p. 6(). The meteoric shower was avcU observed at the Royal Ob- 

 servatory, and described by Mr. G. W. H. Maclear, commencing at 1''3"'a.m. 

 (Cape time), and reaching its maximum between 2"' 10" and 2^ 13" a.m., when 

 in three minutes 200 meteors were observed. 



Deducting 1'^ 13'" 55' (long, of the Cape of Good Hope Observatory, E. 

 from Greenwich) fi'om the hours of observation, and projecting the numbers 

 of the Cape register, like the] foregoing numbers, in a curve, it is seen 

 (fig. 3) that the maximum at the Cape of Good Hope took place, in point of 

 absolute time, about thirteen minutes earlier than at Loyton ; and the other 

 inflections of the curve at the Cape of Good Hope are displaced from those 

 at Leyton by about an equal interval. Mr. G. Forbes, of St. Andrews Uni- 

 versitv, accounts for the difference* by showing that, in the relative position 

 of the earth with respect to the zone of meteors on the morning of the 14th 

 of November 1866, the Cape of Good Hope would touch their boundary, and 

 would become plunged into the thickest portion of their stream about tliirtecn 

 minutes before the same phenomena would be perceived in England. 



At GreemvicJi. — EoyaL Astronomical Society's 'Monthly Notices,' vol. xxvii. 

 p. 54. — The rate of frequency of meteors per minute at the Eoyal Observa- 



" Fhilosopbical Magazine, S, 4. vol. sxxiii. p. 282. 



