Astronomy. 275° 
tions of shooting-stars did a few years ago, yet how well a patient an 
painstaking record of such phenomena has been repai 
ars that 
observed on that night by Mr. Herschel at Hawkhurst were simultane- 
ously observed by Prof. Adams at the Cambridge Observatory. The dis- 
tances from the earth, at the beginning and end of the apparitions of 
five of these doubly-observed meteors, were as follows:—75 miles and 54 
miles; 72 miles and 55 miles; 68 miles and 44 miles; 89 miles and 57 
miles; and 114 miles and 86 miles. 
e teors, but coul them. had seen the August meteors 
very regularly with no very great disproportion as to the numbers; but 
cannot say that I saw anything more 12th November than on 
In the morning, During the whole of the time that they were out, some- 
about an hour and a half, they saw nearly 120 meteors. oe 
