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(14.) The following observers have reported that they were prepared 
to watch on the night of Nov. 13th, either alone or with others; viz., 
Prof. ; 
Mr. Horace Bumstead, Boston, Mr. F. W. Russell, Natick, Mass., Mr. Esty, 
Amherst, Mass., Mr. R. Norman Foster, Northampton, Mass., Mr. Hiram 
A. Cutting, Lunenberg., Vt., Mr. Searle, Newport, .. Rev. Wi 
Smith, Berlin, Conn., Mr. G. W. Hough, at the Albany Observatory, 
1832 there was a display in Europe; in 1833 one in America. Yet the 
same shower should evidently be visible through several hours (not less 
than six) in longitude. 
According to the observations this year there appears to have been a 
decline of numbers towards morning. We should naturally expect an 
increase until daybreak, since their frequency it would seem should be 
proportional to the sine of the angle of elevation of the radiant. If the 
decrease is real and is due to a diminution of the numbers entering 
_ It is well worth observing whether there js. a four years period for any 
single longitude, as might be expected from a ring of small thickness. If 
we are 
reason to suppose that it will be more remarkable in Europe than in 
America. Hi Ae Bo 
Additional Communications.—After the foregoing abstract by Professor 
Newton was in type, full Reports were received from Prof. A. D. Bach 
Superintendent of the Coast Survey, and from Prof. Hamilton L. Smith, 
of Kenyon College. 
tps 
under direction of Mr. Charles A. Schott, Assistant of Coast Survey, and 
composed of himself with Mr. L. F. P i 
and Messrs, J. Main, A. Zuambrock, W. T. Bright, L. Karcher, J. Downes, 
and H. Main,—eight observers,—and to each certain portion of the 
heavens two observers were generally assigned. Magnitudes were noted, 
and also the instants of flight to the nearest half second on a chronometer 
of known error and rate, and with a free command of the heavens down 
to 15° above the horizon, which was beclouded. The durations of flight 
Were recorded in forty-nine instances. From 8 p.., Nov. 18, to 2 a. m., 
Nov. 14, one hundred and seven flights were recorded and more than half 
them mapped upon the star chart as follows :— 
Am. Jour. Sct.—Seconp Sertes, Vou. XXXVII, No. 109.—Jax., 1864. 
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