276 — Scientific Intelligence. 
It is somewhat difficult of access, but would repay any a interested in 
objects of this kind for the trouble required to reach it. It has been 
nown more or Jess to individuals in its vicinity for a years at least, 
but has never attracted very wide attention. 
Amherst College, Jan. 15th, 186 
IV. ASTRONOMY AND METEOROLOGY. 
1, November meteors in 1866.—Accounts of the grand meteoric shower 
on the morning of the 13th—14th of November continue to reach us, 
We compile the following summary. 
7 eh In the Sandwich Islands (W. long. 158°, N. lat. 21° 15’),—Mr. 
ooke, with seven others, saw 317 meteors in five hours on the 
night of Nov. aT 1866. 
rh to sg PM. - meteors. Sky clear 
Cloudy nN. E, 
- . = i AM, ri ~ Sky half gpetiowinrs 
a I “ 2 “ 63 “ Clear. 
- 2° Ses “Tae Clear. 
Total in five hours, 317 = 
was no special radiation from Leo, A few brilliant meteors 
were observed between 3" and 4° a.m, but they were not as numerous 
ev 
These observations serve as a continuation of those in the United 
States, and show that there was no revival of the shower directly after 
our dawn. 
(b.) Asia Minor—Rev. A. T. Pratt, M.D., in a letter from Marash, 
Turkey, gives the following account of the shower as seen at 1 — 
“ After midnight, we did not look out till 2" 45™ a.m., when 
decidedly frequent. Miss Spencer, who is living with us, we sled 
we went out and took our station to count them, hog result as —— 
w 
N.W. Tota’ 
From % Om to 3h 15m, 200 “998 498 
1.” 8 oO 300 566 866 
in ; 30 “3 45 486 662 1,148 
i Abt @ so numerous after this as to make it impossible to count 
them; falling by dozens and scores at a time till a 45 30™, when 
from ‘O™ to 4" 40™, in the southwest, were counted 200,—the num- 
ber beet snags decreased ,—when we were compelled to leave the 
1s In Tedta teeep i. "Wood; a letter to his son from Abmed- 
uggur (N. lat. 19° “tat AY fone, 74° 55 55"), says ae he watched all the 
and that 
i: a shower of hea At one time he counted 100 i in five min 
* It is not certain, however, whether these were seen Sits 4 
