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One meteor left a train which moved westward, being visible for five 
d.) In India—Rev. Edward Chester, — from Dindigul (N. lat. 
10° 25’, E. lon. 78°), says: “For a few moments I began to count the 
meteors, but thev came so thick and so baat f a time that I had to 
give itup. Isaw thousands. I saw nothing else from 4 o'clock until 
ag and even saw some within acing minutes of sunrise.’ 
(e.) In the NV. Atlantic—Mr. E. Guillemin,* at sea 45 miles N.E. of 
Flores, saw the meteors cross the sk inn E. to W., with Jong trains. 
narrow cloud 10° high lay along the horizon. From behind it, from 
a point N, 59° E., luminous trains shot across the sky. The parallel 
e 
Which crossed the zenith rose perpendicularly from the eastern horizon, 
and leaving behind an immense phosphorescent are, disappeared low in 
west. From 10" to 11> the stars appeare either isolated or in 
groups of two el three, at intervals of from four to twenty seconds. 
They nptes with uniform ology © nd had a mean duration of flight of 
Seven or eight seconds. After 11 o’clock the display gradually dimin- 
ished, pe ended about half padi three in the morning. 
At Cape of Good Hope—Mr. G. W. H. Maclear reports (Astron. 
Monthly petines) between 10" p.m. and 135 a.m. 33 meteors seen at the 
Cape of Good Hope. Between 13" 3" and 16" 21™ a.m. they saw 2742, 
Of — cose were 1774 between 13" 51™ and 14° 36™ 458, that is, in 
pet three-fourths of an hour. The number of observers is not state 
astern Asia.—There appears to have been no remarkable display 
at Shanghai and “: Stes aac in Japan a watch kept that night de- 
tected nothing unu 
h.) At Ath Selah J. F.J. Schmidt peti gre cage for one 
observer for the twelve hours from 6" p.m. to 6" A.M. observations 
made at Athens. There were different person actualy inches ng durin 
the Separate hours, but allowances are made for perso nal peculiarities. 
During the two critical hours, 28 to 4" meg no direct count was kept up, 
The following are the numbers : 
6 6 133 785 (2) 
¢ 7 980 405 
50 1055 (?) 125 
veathe. e Paris and Rome the weather was unfavora 
: A. Quetelet, at Brussels, locates the radiant at R.A. 148°, N. Dee. 
24°, ” The time of the maximum was, he thinks, about a quarter past 
one o’cloc 
(.) i Great Britain —At Edinburgh one observer saw follow- 
ne a Ree in successive minutes from 12" 58™ to 1" 38™ (G, m. time), 
‘omptes Rendus, Ixiii, 961. Compare this vol., ae 
aie Si Sci.—Srconp Series, Vou. XLIII, No. 128.—Manca, 1867. 
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