H. A. Newton on Shooting Stars in November, 1866. | 85 
about one to three o'clock A.M., where it was pretty clear over- 
head. Thirty-five meteors were seen, of which twenty-two were 
in the hours named. Three persons were observing 
On the next night, Nov. 18th—14th, it was partially overcast 
se near 10 o'clock. ‘The number seen was 440. The hourly 
mber, the number of observers, and the state of the sky, are 
adh in the following table. 
Time. No. obs. No. seen. Sky. Time. No.obs. No.seen. Sky. 
8th- gph 3 4 Cloudy. 12$h-14$h 4 90 Clear. 
94 -104 3 8 Partly clear.! 14 -24 5 - 112 Clear. 
104 -114 3 Some cloud 4-34 5 1388 ear. 
‘114 --124 4 61 Clear. 84-44 5 20 Clouding. 
Soon after 33" a.m. the sky became wholly overcast. The next 
oa the sky was also aed a covered. 
. At Washington, servations were made at the 
a 'S ag Observatory which will soon be published in “fall 
16. In Bay of Panama.—Mr. Frank H. Bradley writes to Prof. 
‘Twining, that with about a ieee. of the sky clear he counted 
eleven meteors between 1" 45™ and 2" 30™ a.m. on the morning 
of Nov. 13th. The sky then becuse overcast. 
On the next morning he was on deck from 2" to 3" a.m, and 
in that time counted 30 meteors, 17 of which seemed to be ra- 
diant from a point near the horizon in the N.N.E. The sky 
was clear from N.E. to N.W. an oe a pitt past the zenith, but 
about 3" a.m. the clouds closed e 
On the night of the 14th- 15th. he was on deck for some time, 
with ee clear sky, but saw no m 
ci m indebted to Prof. Hoiry, pie has kindly placed in 
my fda for examination the reports received by the Smith- 
sonian Institution from various observers. 
Prof. Hopkins of Williams College gives the times of 205 
meteors on the night of the 12th-13th, of 453 on the next night, 
and 4 on the third night. The apparent paths of a large pro- 
portion of them is xe given. The following are the numbers 
for o successive hou 
1 
2th-13th. ren Time. 12th-13¢ 13th- 
Bubote 7h 1 6 125—]" 2 sg ‘SL sa 
7h 9 9 1-2 10 71 
8-9 0 19 2-3 45 53 
9 -10 q 16 3-4 40 61 
10 -11 sam 21 4-5 41 69 
11 -12 33 5 -6 24 44 
Between 11 i P.M. and oh 15™ A.M. of the first ni ht the 
___ clouds interfered seriously, and sometimes even covered t) 
__. This series of observations will no doubt prove to be of special 
_ walue ei th computation of altitudes. 
The rts received by the Smithsonian Institution from a 
large sth he of other observers will be of value for the same 
purpose. 
