192 H. A, Newton on numbers of Shooting Stars. 
{To be concluded.] 
Art. XXVI.—The relative numbers of Shooting Stars seen in @ 
given period by different numbers of observers; by H. A. NEWTON. 
of the sky for the moonlight or twilight, for the hour of the 
still more for the number of persons counting. In 
be 
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observers increases indefinitely, the hourly number seen ap- 
vard as infinite the 
record, and did not attempt to observe. Whenever a meteor 
was seen each person perceiving it called out his own name, and 
I entered it (or rather an initial letter of it) on the re 
