124 Meteors of November, 1868. 
were counted in 35, 47, 32, 22, 39, 27,25, and 26 minutes, — 
and the remaining fifty in 15 minutes, Among the number — 
seen were 15 cou plets Aer 1 triplet. Only 25, or 3 per ae . 4 
were nonconformable. . 4 
10. At Haverford, Pa.—Prof. 8. J. Gummere furnishes af 
report of observations made at Haverford College under his — 
_ direction, though he could himself watch only from a window, — 
The report i is by Mr, E. B. Taylor k 
Counting was begun at 11! "34, and the time of finishing 
the even hundreds, and the numbers per minute, are as below: 
Time. Entire no. No. prm. Time. Entire no. No. pr m. rite Entire no, No. prm. 
12h 4m 0s 200 67 2h 39m 268 1900 12°1 4h 38m I4s 3500 12:1 ie 
34 «(0 400 
6-7 46 40 2000 133 43 0 38700 pa 
46 3 500 83 53 3 «62100 15°7 46 3800 
58 18 600 8:2 32 9 O 2300 125 50 31 3900 aT 
1217-0 ~ 800 10% 17 34 2400 11:7 58 38 4000 321 
34 13 1000 116 30 55 2600 15:0 55 27 © «6410C 550 
41 55 1100 130 45 26 2800 13:8 59 26.4 ‘1 
47 18 1200 6189 51 23 2900 16.8 5h25 33 4700 191 
55 25 1300 12°2 58 I8 3000 146 30 55 4800 186 
2h 1 2 1400 167 4h 7 2 3100 113 35 45 4900 207 
8 57 1500 183 14 29 8200 13° 40 17 5000 21 
1700 me 22 1 3309 133 
ronto astronomical time. With the exception of about one p@ — 
cent their courses were from the constellation 3 
Owing partly to the remarkably favorable state of the sky : 
during most of the night many of the meteors appeared vely 
a matehing excepting frou 10% 45= to 11% Om and from : 
11" 50™ to 125 10™, when only one was engaged. From 12 : 
pred aes 17 On a third observer was frequently though not col 
s§ ya ’ 
The annexed table shows the number seen at different points 
of the — together with the corresponding state of the sky. ; 
Time, 2 Number counted. State of the sky. 
Nov. 13. 10 S12 0 eee VS 4 Very clear. 
12023 329 « 
8:6 355 583 ? : 
460-15 0 fee Occasional very light haz 
15 0 160 375 = iy 
16 0 170 572 _—-~-Haze increasing. a 
17 0 180 865 ~~ Clouds 0°4, and very ba7J 
