Q6 MYERS — ON METEOEOLOOr. 



25th, shore lark in flocks about Halifax ; all the leaves of the 

 red maple ofl", — 27th, beeches stripped of leaves. 



Nov'r. 1st, leaves of apple trees still green, — 3rd, hacmatac 

 leaves all turned yellow. 



I cannot close these remarks Avithout advertinsr to the o^raud 

 meteoric display which was the object of such universal expec- 

 tation last November, unhappily to be disap^winted here by the 

 prevalence of cloudy weather at that interesting period. The 

 night of the 11th November was hazy ; that of the 12th overcast, 

 with heavy rain, which encouraged a hope that it would clear 

 off before the next night, — the eventful 13th, 14th, — but no ; for 

 cloudy and overcast weather was continuous till the 17th, 

 Judging from my personal observations, the atmosphere on the 

 night of the 13th, 14th was densely opaque, not affording the 

 slightest glimpse of what was going on above. The local news- 

 papers reported a few meteors having been seen through 

 occasional breaks in the clouds , but nothing worthy of note . From 

 accounts received from places more fortunate, we were made 

 keenly sensible of what we lost in not having been permitted to 

 view the wondrous display. At the Eoyal Observatory, Green- 

 wich, no less than seven thousand meteors were counted between 

 11 p. m. of the 13th, and 5 a. m. of the 14th — of which four 

 thousand occurred between one and two o'clock a. m. of the 14th. 

 The London " Times" of 15th November noticed that an ob- 

 server at Highgate, from a window of circumscribed view facing 

 north-north-east, counted one hundred meteors in the four 

 minutes between 12.32 and 12.37, and two hundred in the two 

 minutes between 12.57 and one o'clock a. m. of the 14th. The 

 meteors were of various colours, orange, green, &c., their trails 

 of a bluish cast ; their paths of divergence apparently from a 

 point within the constellation " Leo." Their course generally 

 irregular ; those which shot from east to west seemingly krger 

 and more brilliant than the others. 



It would be foreign to this unpretending paper to discuss the 

 various theories concerning meteors which have from time to 

 time been advanced and discarded — of their origin and nature, 

 and of the laws by which they are governed, much has j^et to be 

 learned ; but of the accuracy of the prediction of the return of 



