378 H. A. Newton on November Star-Showers. 
the time during which the swarm of bodies furnishing the No- 
vember meteors revolves about the sun must be limited to one 
of five accurately determined periods, one of which is more 
probable than the others. They will serve to direct future ob- 
servation, and perhaps verify or correct such hypotheses as have 
been, or may be presen 
Several catalogues of ancient star-showers have been pub- 
lished. Nearly all the accounts given below are cited in Ba 
or in part in these catalogues. I have copied so far as Ie 
from the original writers. A few citations not heretofore ian 
are added. Translations are given of many of the passages, for 
some of which, _ for other valuable aid, I am indebted to the 
kindness of frie 
I. A.D. 902. 
Near the middle of October, A. D. 902, occurred one of the 
most remarkable star-showers on record. The following a 
counts, although the recorded dates differ, refer evidently to the 
same e phenomenon. 
1, “En la luna Dyleada de este mismo afio murié el ey. Ibrahim Becsece 
aqu uella no che se vieron como lanzadas infinitas estrella 
Muvia 4 derecha é amie ¥ “et prea este afio el one be Estrellas,” Gee 
ria dela Dominacion de los Arabes en Espana, 8°, Pari , p. 1 
xl, 353, First quoted ro Von yosntthott 
In the month Dhu-l-Ka’dah of this same year (380 re H.) died ee 5 Torte a 
the 
Ahmad, and that night there were seen, as it were 
which scattere . themselves like rain to right a “left, “and that year r was 
year of the sta et 
a no Dox ominicae Incarnationis 902 urbs Tauromenis a Sarracenis eee § 
Eodem anno in visi sunt igniculi in modum stellarum per ae dis Ba 
an Rex Africae residens s r Cosentiam Calabriae civitatem, Dei fis Teal 
mortuus est.” Chronicon Romualdi IT, Archiepisc. Salernitani : Murator M-" — 
Ser., vii, 160, {This Journal, x1, 354.) First quoted by Mr. Herrick. 
3. “Hoc tempore noctis medio visi sunt igniculi in modum s tellarum hue I . 
diseurrere. Tune Civitas Rhegium a filio Regis Asor ca . apta est. z, nocte 
rimenis capta est a Saracenis. Rex vero Africes super Cosentian nen i 1 Set 
quadam e ci judiclo mortuus est.” Chronicon Vulturnense: Muratori, Rer. 
415. 
i, pars 2, 
4. “ His itaque patratis, vix eat sex dies efuxer nt, cum visu f 
que mirabile e prod, ingen m omnibus timorem incussit. 
xa per noctem volare, militumque instar confi 
visa cottenttiers sy a . Poke don Sancti Procopii ; ngeriptore 
Neap.: Muratori, Rev. Ital. Sohblds 
ennne Diacon? 
