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Number of shooting stars seen at Minster from Aug. 8th to Aug. 14th, 1863. _ 
Hou { 8th. , 9th. | 10th. | Uith. | (2th. T3th. , M4th. | Total. | 
From gh to Toh, 26 41 93 24 45 33 18 280 
10h to 1 1h, 67 57 | 144 90 54 44 29 485 
h is 12%, 58 61 | 166 98 69 44 496 
12h to 13h, 158 158 
ute to 182h, 39 | 39 
tal, | 151} 159 | 600 , 212 | 168 | 121 | 47 | 1468 
Per tain from 9b to 12h, | 50 568 ‘184! 41 56 40 
From 95 to 10" on the 11th the sky was mostly covered by clouds. 
The observations were made entirely in the open air. The heavens were 
divided among the several observers. observer drew on "the chart 
and other circumstances. On the 10th the stars followee each other so 
fast that the smaller ones, of the rye and fourth magnitudes, could not 
be recorded. No star was counted twice. 
The brightness and duration of oui trains of the meteors on the 10th 
were remarkable. With the naked eye trains were noticed which lasted 
7, 10, 14 and even 43 seconds. With the comet seeker one train was 
th 
Corresponding observations were made at places near Minster, which 
will furnish the data for computing is Aa —Condensed from Heis’ 
high god of Aug. 19th and Aug. 2 
e grosse Feuerkugel, welche am Ae des 4, Marz, 1863, in 
Holland, Deusiesd: Belgien und England geschen worden ist, von Dr. 
Epvarp Hers. Nebst einer Karte. 8°, pp. 56. Halle, 1863. Abdnuck 
aus der Wochenschrift, &c.—This is a very full account of a detonating 
his summary of the various pe Se is well arranged. The meteor was 
rst seen at an altitude of 88 English miles over the North sea, and it 
disappeared de ty a explosion over the south part of Holland at an 
altitude of 17 m e course was nearly south, was inclined 22° to 
the atk nt was 187 miles long. The duration of flight was estima- 
ted at 4 or 5 seconds. The velocity was considered therefore as 414 miles, 
ae gives a hyperbolic orbit around the sun for = former path. 
6. Die Meteoriten, thre Geschichte, cate ae ae chemische Be- 
schaffenheit, von Dr. Orro Bucuyer. 8vo. pp. 2 Leipzig, 1863.— 
Sen work attempts to give a brief historical sketch of a described 
eg arra sige ae eb y, commencing with the Hnsissheim stone, 
which fell Noy. 16th, 1492, and ending with that of Meno, whose fall was 
observed Oct. 7th, 1862. IL. Stony Met eorites—time of fall unknown— 
those intermediate in character between the stony an 
the stone-and-iron meteorites. These number 10, and are saeco in aye 
order of their discovery. IV. Iron Meteorites, eighty- -three in number, 
