128 Meteoric shower of November, 1872, in Italy. 
was expected also this year in the month of October, and which 
as been sought for in vain, up to this time, by astronomers. 
Nothing is more probable, therefore, than that the great me- 
teoric cloud which gave us the shower of yesterday, came from 
a portion of this body broken up and dissolved ; especially if 
we consider that yesterday we passed through one of the two 
nodes of the orbit of the comet. 
A beautiful aurora borealis was seen at Moncalieri at the 
same time from ten minutes past six to about eight o’clock 
. The maximum took place at about seven o'clock, at 
which hour all the sky from north-northwest to northeast was 
tinted with a deep red color; afterward it remained very light 
and clear, especially from the west-southwest to tne north. 
This phenomenon, moreover, is often the attendant of these 
great apparitions of falling stars, and gives rise to many hypo- 
theses and conjectures. This aurora was likewise seen at 
Perugia, Messina and other places. P. F. DEN. 
were not able to count the falling stars, so great was their 
multitude. At Mondovi, Prof. Bruno, with three assistants, 
counted 30,881 meteors from 6% 18" Pp. M. to 2h 15" a.m. The 
maximum took place everywhere between 8 and 9 o'clock, 
and the radiant has been found to be not far from y Andro- 
medx. The shower of Nov. 14th would have been observed 
