244 H. A. Newton on the Meteors of November, 1869. 
having at each end a condenser with 10 cells, in somewhat less 
than the third of a second, five seconds after the transmission of 
an impulse of the opposite sort; that with a circuit formed by 
the two cables, a smaller electromotive force sufficed to trans- 
L1SSic ompleting an interrupted 
circuit and those given by interrupting a closed circuit, ma 
teors, at the time of their return in L869, by nearly all those 
who were watching for them. The observers, in the few stations 
t b 
meteors, four of them conformable. During the rest of the 
morning the sky was overcast, and even in this interval it was 
at no time more than one third clear. 
2. A similar failure, nearly or quite complete, is reported by 
Prof. Eastman, at the U. §. nthe Observatory, Washington, by 
Mr. Marsh and Mr. Taylor, at Philadel hia, by Mr. Fuertes at 
rd, Conn., by Mr. Boerner, at evay, Ind, by Prof 
Rockwood at Brunswick, Me. and by various others who were 
a. to make “ge Commodore 
ee ae ola, Florida.—To the courtesy of Comm 
‘Sands, Sup’t. of the U. S. Naval Oheasadory- we are indebted 
_ for a letter of Commande: Wn. Gibson, from Pensacola. He 
Says that the night of the 18th—14th was exceedingly bright and 
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