228 _ Shooting Stars of Nov. 14th, 1867. 
little past its full, arose before the hour for commencing opera- 
tions, and under its light all stars below the third degree paled 
away and became invisible. I noticed the Pleiades then just 
beyond a lunar-halo, but so feeble was their light, that only 
by looking steadily in the direction in which they were known 
to be, could they be perceived. I do not believe that a meteor 
of the average brightness of the Pleiades would have been 
perceived. 
of twelve each, to watch respectively, from 10 o’clock to 12 
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— any considerable overlapping of their fields of view. 
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the direction, é&c., of the brightest, without keeping in his own 
mind the total mumber of those seen. The divition of 
between 2 and 4 o’tlock was not noticed, so that the last two 
In regard to their conformability, as soon as Leo had attained 
of careful observation, it was 
