Shooting stars of Nov. 14th, 1867. 81 
Several of the company reported the numbers seen by them 
individually during that time as follows, 380, 330, 191, 180, 
276, 335, 92, and 72, The last two were rejected as being ex- 
ceptional from some cause, and the 
40 remainder give an average of 282. 
| n allowance for cloudiness would 
30 make the two numbers agree, 
i The full line in the diagram rep- 
20 resents the numbers in the above ta- 
r\ ble. The dotted line represents the 
numbers deduced similarly from the 
observations at the Toronto observa- 
ieet tory, given below. 
3h. 4h. 5h. 6h. During the whole time from 1 10™ 
to 55, the following numbers were 
seen by individuals of the company, viz: 813, 888, 635, 913, 790, 
737, 792, 600, and 408; average 731, More or less time in the 
height of the shower was lost by every one. If we allow for 
this cause, for cloudiness, and for the hour from 5 to 6 o’clock, 
it is reasonable to assume that the number for one person for 
the five hours between 1! and 64 would be at least 900, This 
implies about 5000 for the total number visible in the moon- 
light. The moon, however, must have concealed one-half or 
three-fourths of the whole number. But for that cause there 
might have been 10 or even 20 thousand visible. 
Very few indeed of the meteors moved in paths which would 
not, if produced backward, cut across the q i 8,7, 8 
and ¢ Leonis. I watched carefully those which moved in par. 
allels of latitude, and every one seen went accurately from the 
I suspected a tendency of the eye to carry back the more 
distant tracks to parts of this line too near the zenith. The 
meteors seen were 
the conformable ones. i 
