78 Shooting stars of Nov. 14th, 1867. 
Arr. XV.—Shooting Stars on the morning of November 14th, 
1867. 
Own the morning of the 14th of November, the periodic me- 
teors were witnessed throughout the whole of the Western Con- 
tinent. The following accounts give the character and extent 
- — ear 525 By previous arrangement, the hours from 1054 
o 25 a.M., were designated for concerted observations for 
siete It was thought that the meteors would be less nume- 
rous then than later, and hence more easily identified, and that — 
conformable meteors would be seen at more stations, since 
their paths would be more nearly horizontal and longer. The 
publication of these observations for parallax is postponed 
until they can be compared and reduced. 
The air was clear, in most places, though floating clouds _ 
concealed some of the meteors. The moon was but two days 
past the full, and hence the numbers seen, and the brilliancy of 
7 exhibition, were very greatly diminished, 
_ At New Haven.—At New Haven there were two parties, 
one ek the roof of Sheffield Hall, composed of Prof, Lyman, 
Prof. Whitney, Dr. Wright, and several assistants ; ; and the 
other composed of stullents of the College, under the direction 
of the writer, and located upon the tower of Graduates’ Hall. 
The first party gave exclusive attention to observations for par- 
allax, the second counted the numbers visible, although some 
paths were charted by Mr. O. M. Harger, and the places of some 
others indicated with more or Jess precision. 
he was to look. The counting was aloud to avoid duplication. 
The feliwitg was the result for the several quarter hours: 
9h-10h. 0h-1lh, l1h-12h. 12h-1hb 
ns 1 10 
Ist quarter hour, 2 
f 9d “ 34 2 3 4 
3d ; 34 “cc z 2 2 6 
wa ee 0 3 7 2 
Hourly number, 6 9 13 22 
~The —_ a seen in 3% 32" was 47. Soon after mid- 
night a di cloud arose in the west, and before the close of 
the hoe its it had nearly covered the s 
At one o’clock a new party of observers replaced the former 
one, and from this time until five o'clock we ie bad about +t fifteen 
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