Shooting stars of Nov. 14th, 1867. 79 
observers. The first quarter hour was therefore somewhat in- 
terrupted by the change of watch, but the clouds were even a 
greater hindrance. The following were the numbers counted 
in successive quarter hours: 
oe a io 7 meteors ; sky about 2 covered. 
] 5 “e 80 1 9 “ “ “ 
80 ‘74 45 12 ae “ + “ 
45 “ 2 0 30 “cc ce + “ 
2 0 iT] 15 40 ec “ i ““ 
a5 SiS cog 41.208 a lee 
380 it 45 45 “ oe 4 “ 
45 (74 3 0 23 6s “ec $+ “ 
3 0 &“ 1 5 38 ee “ £ “ 
15 “c 80 82 “ “cc ZL “ 
30 “ 45 145 “ “ iy “ 
45 “ 4.6% 2942 “cc “cc as “ 
=o * 10° oa ** nearly clear. 
{ 5 “ 27 4 462 “ “ “c 6c 
_ At four o’clock we were frequently losing meteors in our 
count in consequence of two or more appearing at the same 
instant in different quarters of the heavens. The errors from 
this cause increased eh at 4h 274m it was evident that our 
ute. They gave severally the f aheviag umbers of meteors 
seen ; viz., 32, 64, 31,24, 56, 34, 90, 48, 37, 38, 32,25. Aver- 
age 42, 6. 
At 45 34m, in another minute the results were, 52, 45, 29, 
ane 42, 37, 5 56, 24, 42, 58, 52, 38, 36 ; average 43°8. 
At 44 40m they “counted aloud, all to together, | 60 in a minute, 
At 45 43™ they counted silently with the following results 
for the several persons: 32, 34, 25, 30, 15, 17, 16, 20, 15, 25, 
44,27, 26,19: average 24°6. 
At 4h 48m the whole co mpany counted aloud in one ie 
36 meteors. At 4" 53" a silent count gave the followin 
sults for the different persons, viz: 23, 13, 12, 9, 14, 20. , 14, 
12, 14: average 14°6. 
At 4 57™, one person pone 11 in a minute. 
At 4) 59" ten persons counting sing’ for 65 seconds saw 
severally, 12, 7, 11, 10, 9, 10, 17, 15 , 13, 9; average per 
minute 10°4, se 
- _ At 5 8m, seven persons saw severally in a minute, 9, 10,11, | 
4,8 16, 8; average 99. At 5® 15", four persons counted 
severally ; in’a minute, 4, 3, 7,4; average 45. 
