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H. A. Newton on Shooting Stars in November, 1866. 79 
rst party continued the watch until 14 40™ a. m., count- 
ing in iloed two a a half hours 236 meteors, as f ollows: 
Duration, No. seen. No. per hour. 
a 37 
112 10" ‘5 sti a0 0 
ao 45 15 2 
eh Pe eg 15 26 108 
isp" 15 15 22 
ty ie 30 15 17 
SG; -* 45 15 91 
yi eas Sean | 15 21 81 
Le OAS 15 15 25 
LB 30 15 20 
Tt 40 10 20 97 
Total in 25 30™ 236 94 hour, ay. 
The meteors were generally small and very few of them were 
from Leo. Few left trains. ere: these 24 hours nine of the 
party saw severally 34, 10, 41, 26, 40, 62, 29, 62 and 68. This 
gives an average of 404 to each observer, or 16 per hour. The 
proportion of the ee for single observers to the whole num- 
a seen is 17 per cen 
Besides all this, ee is Y andbebes hy ee Gileeass = 
pending on closeness of attention antl sharpness of eyes. 
At 2h 40m, after an interval of one hour, a new party began 
to count, and the afin was the result: 
uration. No. seen. Hourly No. 
* From 2° ig e gh ve i 5™ 15 
45 “3 
15 44 177 
B70 * 15 38 
a: BO 15 37 
O08 9... 46 15 38 
a5.°° 4.9 15 27 140 
MS | ved 15 15 38 
a deeee | 15 At 
oo. ae 15 43 
— oo 15 44 169 
oe, 15 15 54 
ial iat 15 36 180 
Total in 2" 50™ 458 162 — av. 
The following are the reports of the numbers seen 
ual observers. Those looking the whole time saw ww BEAL 100; 41, 100, 
55; one from 35 onwards saw 26, one from 3" 15™ saw 49, 
