58 Meteors of November 24—27, 1872. 
part of the sky, counted 50 meteors between 7 35™ and 7" 56™. 
Thursday I saw no meteors in 15 minutes between 53° 
and 6", P.M. On Friday, from 8" 53™ to 9" 8", p.M., I saw 3 
meteors in a clear sky, neither coming from Andromeda. On 
Saturday, from 5" 40™ to 6", a. M., I saw 8 flights in the eastern 
sky, three of which might have come from Andromeda, then in 
the N.W. Four were from near the zenith, perhaps from Leo. 
5. In Washington.—The following report of Rear Admiral 
Sands to the Secretary of the Navy, is copied from the N. Y. 
Herald:—“ I have the honor to report that last night, being clear, 
a fine display of meteors was observed by Professor Hastman 
and Mr. Horrigan, watchman of the observatory. In the early 
evening, Professor Eastman being occupied in other duties, Mr. 
Horrigan observed 485 meteors between 6" 15™ and 8, P. M. 
From 8* to 9", p. M., Professor Eastman observed part of the 
time, and 131 were seen; after 9", Pp. M., 100 more were seen, 
and at 10", Pp. M., the display seemed to cease. The maximum 
reports the following observations. 
From 65 25" to 65 43", Washington mean time, one hundred 
meteors were counted, and from 75 40" to 8 0", fifty were 
counted. Most of the meteors were small, and only four or 
