202 Miscellanies. 



persons, on the night of Aug. 10-11, (?) 1840, observed three hundred 

 and fifty six shooting stars, as follows : — 



From 8h. 23m. to 8h 56m. - - - 10 



9 " 9 59 - - - - 27 



10 " 10 58 - - - - 28 



11 " 11 59 - - - - 30 



9 " 59 - - - - 48 



1 " 1 59 - - - - 38 



2 1 " 2 59 - - - - 102 



3 2 " 3 55 - - - - 73 

 During the night of Aug. 9-10, (?) 1840, the same observers saw 



one hundred and eighty shooting stars, as follows : — 



From 8h. 49m. to lOh. 56m. . . - 2 



11 19 " 11 48 - - - - 4 



6 " 59 - - - - 34 



1 5 " 1 59 - - - - 47 



2 " 2 59 - - - - 69 



3 3 " 3 33 - - - - 24 



At Ghent, on the night of Aug. 9-10, 1840, Prof. Duprez observed 

 alone, ninety seven shooting stars, as follows : — 



From 9h. 30m. to lOh. .... 5 



10 "11 .... 11 



11 "12 .... 13 



12 "1 .... 19 

 1 "2 .... 49 



Sir J. F. W. Herschel states, that of twenty six considerable me- 

 teors, which he observed at Collin g-ivood, Eng., between 13h. 25m. and 

 14h. 20m., on the morning of Aug. 10, 1840, twenty four radiated 

 very precisely from / Persei. On the 10th Aug. 1839, the radiant 

 point, according to his observations, was (3 Camelopardali. 



E. C. H. 



5. Meteors of November. — The year 1838 appears to have been the last 

 of the late annual series of the November meteoric showers. None was 

 observed here, or elsewhere so far as we have learned, in 1839; and such 

 is also the result of observations for the present year. On the night of the 

 11th I was on the look-out, but the sky was constantly overcast. On the 

 night of the 12-13th, in company with a friend, I watched until 4 o'clock. 

 It was cloudy the greater part of the night, but clear about half an hour 

 between 3 and 4, — at the very time when, according to former observa- 

 tions, the meteors might have been expected in greatest frequency ; yet 

 we saw but a single shooting star. On the morning of the 14th I was up 

 at 4 o'clock. The sky was clear, but no meteors were seen. 



