470 Scientific Intelligence. 
that the mysterious coronal streamers, if they turn out to be truly 
solar, as now seems likely, may find their origin and explanation 
in such events, , 
The same afternoon a portion of the chromosphere on the oppo- 
site (western) limb of the sun was for several hours in a state of 
unusual brilliance and excitement, and showed in the spectrum 
more than 120 bright lines whose position was determined and 
catalogued,—all that I had ever seen before, and some 15 or 20 
besides, 
Whether the fine aurora borealis which succeeded in the even- 
3. November Meteors in 1871.—On the night of November 
13th-14th, the writer, with Prof, Lyman and about two others, 
watched for meteors from 11" 20™ onward, with the following re- 
sults :— 
Between 11°20" and 11° 30" we saw 9 meteors. Sky 2 obscured. 
oc 80 ‘74 45 “c 8 “ Al 
ewer clouds, 
ce 4 5 “c 12 1) it4 3 6 [but haz 
bie 12 0 “c 15 73 8 “ 
“ 15 ‘“ 30 ‘c 17 “ Nearly clear. 
& 30 “ 45 << 13 “ 
“ 45 “ T 6 3 15 “ 
“ t 6 «c 15 rT 3 14 6 Sky L overcast. 
/ 15 “c 30 “ 5 a3 
- 30 “ 45 3 6 & Sky rs overcast. 
Shortly after 1" 45™ the clouds had entirely closed over, and 
did not break away afterward. e w of the 98 meteors 
the watch hot in the meteor stream. If the earth passed throug 
it this year, it did so earlier than 11" 20™, or later than 1" 20", ° 
the night of the 13th-14th. A. B. 
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