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H. A. Newton on the Meteors of November, 1869. 247 
and Mr. Robert McClure had a tolerably clear sky from half 
past 4 till half past 5. 
“Meteors of the brightest class of the November shower, hav- 
ing luminous streaks, were crossing the sky at the rate of about 
40 in an hour, for one observer, corresponding to a rate of fre- 
quency of at least one hundred per hour, in all the sky. The 
apparent paths of thirty of these meteors were recorded upon a 
ae y their course among the stars, and the direction of thei 
fig t was from the usual radiant point in the constellation 
e0. * * * * 
nd were not successful on the morning of the 14th. 
At Culloden, Mr. A. Forbes counted upwards of 200 between 
the hours of 3" and 7", a.M., the maximum of the shower 
appearing to be about 5 o'clock. : 
8. In France, the “ Association Scientifique” o: nized a sys- 
tem of observations, at various stations near the Mediterranean, 
embracing even one or two in Italy. The results were to be re- 
the month of November, at Marseilles and Bordeaux. e have 
not learned what success rewarded the zeal of the French ob- 
se 
and corrected for the influence of the moon, for the night of 
Nov. 12th, 6-8 meteors; for the night of Nov. 18th, 248 
meteors,” 
H the preceding nights gave 
€ says that the observations for the mean for that period 
: ules or constants for such reductio 
might perhaps have some value, if we kne 
