Meteoric Observations. 



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made at Cambridge, on and near the 13th of November last. 

 Eight members of the senior class, Messrs. Hale, Hurd, Adams, 

 Longfellow, Chase, Channing, Morison, and Parker, undertook 

 the labor of watching. Their stations were taken together out 

 in an open field : the heavens were divided into quarters, and two 

 observers stationed at each quarter. All of the observers were 

 out the whole time, from midnight till morning. A condensed 

 table of the meteors seen by them is contained below. 



N'ovemher IWi, 1838. 



Note. — After 5 o'clock there were only two observers. 

 November 13tli. 



November lAth. 



An attempt was made to watch again on the morning of No- 

 vember 23d, but the clouds partially prevented. The observa- 

 tions this morning were not commenced till Ih. 20m. At half 



