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meteors. Doct. Gibbons of Wilmington, Delaware, observed the 
heavens, in connexion with his observations on the aurora, until 
_ about half past twelve o’clock on the morning of the 13th of Nov. 
_ He informs me that he has been in the habit of inspecting the heav- 
ens, frequently, every clear evening since November, 1833, and has 
observed often an unusual number of meteors for several evenings 
in succession, and sometimes the reverse of this. The night of the 
12th, 13th of Nov. 1884, was clear. 
No unusual occurrence of meteors was noticed at Baltimore by 
the city watch, or others, to whom inquiry was directed by Prof. 
Ducatell; nor at the University of Virginia, nor at the University 
of North Carolina; at which places, as I learn from Professor Pat- 
terson, and Professor E. Mitchell, no special observations were made. 
At Cincinnati, Ohio, the night was cloudy, with showers. 
President Lindsley of Nashville University, informs me that one 
of the gentlemen at the University was on the look out on the night 
of the 12th, 13th, but saw nothing remarkable. 
The direct observations made at New York, Philadelphia, and 
Nashville show that no unusual meteoric display occurred at either 
of these places, and the general experience at Baltimore, and Wil- 
mington, Delaware, the University of Virginia, and the University 
of North Carolina, was to the same purport. As far as public tes- 
timony through the journals, can reach this point, it confirms these 
conclusions. 
I infer that the meteors seen at New Haven, from 1 o’clock un- 
til day light, by Prof. Olmsted and the gentlemen who assisted him; 
at West Point after two A. M. by Mr. Twining; at Machinac, be- 
tween twelve and one o’clock, by the sentinel, were not parts of one 
meteoric display, visible over an extensive region of country like the 
phenomenon of Nov. 1833, but were local. 
It is to be seen from the foregomg statements that the weather 
was not the same over the extent of country which they embrace, 
while on the 13th of November, 1833, there was a most remarkable 
uniformity over a much greater surface. 
Philadelphia, May 28th, 1835. 
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