248  H. A. Newton on the Meteors of November, 1869. 
the observations of Mr. Coulvier-Gravier and Mr. Chapelas are 
inextricably mixed up with their deductions. The manifest 
lishes his reports, and we respectfully call its attention to the 
matter. 
10. At Vienna.—Prof. Weiss of the Observatory of Vienna, 
with three aids, determined 36 paths with the meteoroscope 
between 2" and 6%, a.m, of the 13th (Prof. Schmidt in Heis 
Wochenschrift, Dec. 8th). Some of them were from the Leo 
radiant. The total number visible was verv moderate. 
The next night was stormy, and for an interval of 10 minutes 
only at 4", A. M., could anything be seen. A few stars of Leo, 
Gemini and Auriga were then visible through openings in the 
clouds, and along with them, though principally seen through 
aze, were some meteor tracks, having trains and radiating 
from Leo. Prof. Schmidt estimated that the hourly number 
for one observer was about 50 reckoning only the brighter 
appears to have been overcast. 
ll. At Rome—The cloudy skies which covered northern 
Europe on the night of the 13th, 14th, also impaired the 
Italian observations. Padre Secchi reports a few, though 
incomplete, from Rome. ; 
At 2" 30" 4. m. the clouds broke away in the west and in 
five minutes 18 meteors were seen. At 2h 35m the sky was 
nearly clear except low in the northeast, and a regular count 
was 
to state the number of observers. Padre Secchi concludes: 
Ist. That there was a real recurrence of the display. 
2d. That it was but little different from the display last year, 
there having been then seen in the same interval about 200 
meterors. The hour moreover was not that of the maximum. 
_ 3d. That the radiant pot was within the bend of the. sickle 
| ith the stars « and « an equilateral triangle. 
> But this determination was not very precise owing to the want 
of tr radiant, 
h. That the greater part of the meteors passed to the north 
