H. A. Newton on November Siar-Showers. 381 
agrees with Abu-l-Fida, while Ibn-al-Khatib says the death was 
on the 18th. Nuwairi says it was the night before Saturday the 
98th of Dhu-l Ka’dah, A.H. 289 (Ms. 702 A. fol. 58 vers. and 54 
rect, of the Bibliothéque Imperiale at Paris, cited by Noel des 
Vergers, Histoire de V Afrique, &c., p. 144). Again, Mr. Sédillot 
gives for the date the 12th of Dhu-l-Ka’dah, or the 18th (Comp- 
tes Rendus, xxix, 746). Ibn-al-Athir says he died on the 19th 
(extr. fr. the Kamil-at-Tawdrikh of Ibn-al-Athir, as edited in 
part by Amari in his Biblioteca Arabo-Sicula, p. 242). The 19th. 
of Dhu-l-Ka’dah was the 25th of October, while the 28th was 
the 8d of November. 
Amid this confusion of dates it would not be easy from his- 
torical evidence alone to detect the true day, of the shower. But 
when we know that the subsequent displays point back to the 
morning of Wednesday, the 13th of October, we feel justified 
in calling that the date. It is expressly given in the Chronicon 
itanum. The six days mentioned by Joannes Diaconus may 
oooh s be counted from the beginning of the razing of Castel- 
m Lucullanum and not from its close. If the extract from 
Elmacinus refers, as I suspect it does, to A.H. 289, it implies also 
that the shower was on the same Wednesday morning. 
II. A.D. 931. 
“931, Méme période Tchang-ching), 2e année, 9¢ lune, jour ping-sw (15 Octobre), 
Te Aprés le cinquiéme coup de tambour, jusqu’au jour, on vit, au milieu et 
dans les quatre parties du ciel, plus de cent petites étoiles filantes allant en sens 
divers.” E. Biot, Catalogue Général, etc., p. is catalogue is from the tent 
Volume of the Mem. Roy. Acad. Sci. de Paris. 
A. D. 931. Same period, second year, ninth month, the 23d day of the cycle (Oct. 
Ith). After the fifth watch until daylight, were seen, above, and in the four quarters 
of the sky, a hundred shooting stars moving in different directions. 
In Biot’s memoir successive events throughout a night are al- 
ways related without a break at midnight. Inasmuch as the 
pose, the morning of Oct. 16th. 
III. A. D. 934. 
l. “934. Période Thsing-thai, Ire année, 9¢ lune, jour sin-tcheow (14 Octobre) .... 
Sree Si acer ai ,> sina Jement cette méme date: ‘Il y eut beaucoup 
€s filante 2” FB. Biot, Catal. ete., Pp. 
_ A. D. Porind Thi-thes, first Year, ninth month, 38th day of the cycle (Oct. 
M4). The collection Sin-ou-tai-sse simply says at this date “there were many shoot- 
ing stars all at once.” 
; iS “9834. Indictione 4, Defunctus est Joannes Abbas II. Kal. Aprilis, fer. 2. Et 
it ipso Anno apparuerunt signa in coelo de stellis quae Moro at 
e aliae fils ie in e . 
at the end of Chronicon ie Muratori, Rer. Ital. Scrip., vii, 961. Also in Ann 
- Casinates hf Prrtz, iii, 172. Quoted by Mr. Herrick. The year of the indiction is in 
error, as the day before the Kalends of April was not Monday, in the year 
