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4. Facts respecting the Meteoric Phenomena of November ISth, 

 1834. Communicated byDENisoN Olmsted, Professor of Nat- 

 ural Philosophy in Yale College. 



I. Foreign testimonies. 



1. By the jRet;. W. B. ClarJc, A. M. F. G. S., fee. (England.) 



" On the return in 1 834 of the period when the meteors were 

 seen in 1799, 1832 and 1833, [and also in 1831^ Amer. Journal, 

 Jan. 1835,] I felt naturally anxious, to watch the atmosphere. My 

 health, however, did not allow me to remain up all night, but on ri- 

 sing at 3 o'clock in the morning of Nov. 13th, I saw from my win- 

 dow in fifteen minutes' time, by the watch, fifteen falling stars in 

 the direction of a line from Leo to the star Mirza in Ursa Major. 

 The night was cloudless, and the moon so bright, that the constella- 

 tions could be scarcely seen ; but the meteors were very red and 

 brilliant. — {Loudon's Magazine of Natural History for Dec. 1834, 

 p. 654.) 



