82 Shooting stars of Nov. 14th, 1867. 
In a few instances, the train lasted for minutes. As the clock 
struck four, one left a train visible more than four minutes; 
how much longer I cannot say, as my attention was then di- 
verted, It floated eastward two or three degrees, 
2. At New Haven.—Prof. Twining furnishes the following 
observations which are of special value on account of the great 
care with which he observed and discussed the great shower of 
1833, 
“‘ After half past three o’clock on the morning of the 14th, 
I did not again observe the meteors until five o’clock, and, 
consequently not until their frequency had become very much 
less than in the interval. Still they were, even then, more nu- 
merous than I had witnessed since 1833. In from 5° to 5® 10™ 
I counted not less than fifty that were conformable, and from 
that to 5° 22™, 50 more,—making 100 (and probably two ad- 
ditional) in 22", Afterward, from 5° 40m to 5" 45, there 
were seen but 13, and in the following five minutes, to 5® 50", 
only 4, The meteors at five o’clock, compared with those at 
three o’clock, had no observed difference of magnitude, or flight. 
or duration of trains. From these and the more extended ob- 
servations of others, made public at New Haven and elsewhere, 
it appears obvious that the scale of this display, compared 
with what was observed by myself and a multitude of others 
in 1833, was not—at a rough estimate—more than about one- 
fifth. This estimate has respect to each of the three following 
particulars, viz: the frequency of the meteors protracted through 
a long time; the massive character and brilliancy of the longest 
and largest; and the duration of the main body or shower. 
In respect also of the entire agregate of numbers the disparity 
would appear much greater still. In 1833 there were not less 
than five hours of full development ; while the same this year 
was but a single hour. Again, in 1833, the frequency, pre- 
vailing through two hours or more, was estimated by compe- 
tent ebservers to from 10,000 an hour to several times that 
number. ‘Ten thousand an hour was, no doubt, an over cau- 
tious estimate ; while the 
