250 H. A. Newton on the Meteors of November, 1869. 
The meteors of this second morning were much finer than 
those of the preceding morning. The sporadic meteors of each 
night appeared to radiate from Auriga. 
15. on Moncalieri.—Director F. Denza reports in Les 
Mondes, for four observers : 
Night of the 12th of Nov. from 14) to 17h 145 meteors. 
tS a“ 17 0“ 
ath “ 14h 19m 17h10m = gg 
These numbers need to be increased, as their principal object 
was to determine the position of the tracks and the instant of 
appearance of the meteors. 
On the night of the 18th, 14th, there were seen : 
- At Alexandria by 4 observers from 9h 45m to 16h 45m, 168 meteors, 
: 1 «“ 14h 30m gh 169 «5 
At Varallo, 1 “ 13h 25m 16h 25m, 121 * 
Prof. Denza adds that “the meteoric shower of Nov. 1869, 
differs little from that of August, and in some places was even 
inferior to it.” 
16. At Port Said, Egypt.—tn the Monthly Notices for Dec. are 
some observations of G. L. Tupman, Esq., at that place. On 
€ mornings previous to that of the 18th, he detected some 
tendency to radiation from Leo. On that morning, of thirteen 
meteors, four were conformable. 
the morning of the 14th from 12" 80™ to 18" 15™ only 
two meteors were seen, neither conformable. There was & 
time. The duration of the meteors or their ‘time of flight 
was considered to be less than half a second—too short a time 
to estimate even toughly. 
“The following are the observations. Being unassisted, I 
entries 
16° 24 the numbers were nearly uniform, and slightly decreas- 
ing. The maximum, , Was either before or about 14" 30”; 
but the center of the dense part must have been d about 
16 hours, as there was no sign of the shower at 18" 15". 
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