118 Meteors of November, 1868. 
Art, X.—Weteors of November 14th, 1868. 
On the morning of Saturday the 14th of November, 1868, _ 
there was another recurrence of the November star shower. 
The following are the accounts of the numbers and appeat- 
ances of the meteors as reported from different places. 7 
. Ll. At New Haven.—tThe writer, with Mr. O. Harger, and §- 
several students in the College, watched from the top of the F 
tower of Graduates Hall. We commenced counting as the 7 
clock struck twelve. There were at first seven or eight in the | 
party, but within ten minutes this number increased to about — 
twelve who were counting. Toward morning the number di: 
sated to seven or eight. To each person was assigned 8 7 
direction to which he was to look. Rodeos our station we had — 
an unobstructed view of the heave 
more abundant it was evident that many were lost in the count — 
ing. For, when two or three came nearly or quite at the same | 
instant, only one might be added to the number. We were 9 
then by no means certain that we were making a fair census. — 
I directed each one, therefore, to o* silently during intervals 
which I carefully limited by the watch, The numbers re ported — 
by each observer ‘during these Soe? were entered upon rn th 
record. Immediately upon the close of an interval the count — 
ing in concert was resum 
In the first table given below there are in the first colum? — 
the intervals of observation during which we were coun ting in 
concert ; in the second column the lengths of those intervals; 
in the third column the numbers actually counted in the ine 
val; in rad oa the average number per minute; in the i 
the number ers; and in the sixth the total number 
ng ; these hourly numbers, allowance is made fot - 
the omitted i by Getering for the rate per minute the 
half sum of the rates of the periods just preceding and fol- 
lowing. In the four and forty-two minutes the nui 
bers counted amounted to 5573. For the omitted interva rvals 
teanbore ruls sete 1786, eet of 7359 in the six 
