HT A. Newton on the Meteors of November, 1869. 245 
clear, and that the shooting stars were observed in extraordinary 
numbers, from 12 15™, a. M., until dawn, most numerously be- 
tween 3" — 4", a.M. It was difficult br give the average per 
ing agg to the northw 
the Pacifie Ocean. —To the courtesy of the Secretary 
ae the Smithsonian Institution, we are indebted for a letter of 
Mr, Alexander Kvans of Elkton, 
On the morning of Nov. 14th, he was upon the Pacific 
Ocean, lat. 8° 30’ N., and long. 84° 30’ W. He watched from 
two till four o ‘clock, when the sky became overcast. Between 
these hours the sky was partly covered. The aoe was, he 
says, quite equal to that of 1868 which he observed thr ughout. 
He thought chat the radiant point was not as last Si in the 
center of the sickle in Leo, but a little more to the eastward 
between the stars , and 7. There were several nonconformable 
meteors whose radiant seemed to be the zenith. 
5. ~ Santa Barbara, California.—To the courtesy of Prof. 
Peirce, Superintendent of the U. S. Coast Survey, we. are in- 
Centr for the observations of Mr. Geo. Davidson, Assistant, 
seen by the two observers per minute. The ey are oo akan from 
the diagram forwarded by Prof. Peirce. 
1) 23m 9-2 me h 16m 5-0 meteors.|24 46™ 3-0 meteors.|3® 15™ 5-0 meteors. 
teors./2h 1 
35 36.4 91 62 * 51 4 os 91 25 * 
47 4:8 i 25 50 “ 55 «6° ied 25 2-0 = 
8:59 ..% 1.36% et oe. S137 
59 3°8 ub 35 2-2 ts 5 3:0 ty 35 3-2 “ 
2 9 48 “ 41 66 * 11 20 “ ae 463 * 
Mr. Davidson says, “the night was beautifully clear, the 
moon being ten da: ‘4 old, and pes I was ne t1> _ 
A. M., up to sehisle Gans 22 meteors had been see 
Bb 43m, 4. M., — - kept for any unusual aialay, but the 
se Some of the meteors were 
About half a dozen 
Persistent d disappeared at a point about 9 or 
above Polaris, inal ° to orem The train was 5° in mee 
