382 H. A. Newton on November Star-Showe:'s. 
3. “934. Igneae Remis in Coelo acies visae sunt discurrere, et quasi serpens ig- 
neus, et quaedam iacula ferri eid Idus Octobris mane ante lu ucis a Mox 
 h. ae pestis diversis afficiens humana cor pora mor is.’ 
n. Bouquet, Recueil d des Hist. des Gaules, &e., viii, 189. Als ona, “ae 
and in Poo. Bouquet, viii, 166, Quoted by poe Chi asles.° 
Nearly the same sf . ae in Hugonis Chronicon: Pertz, viii, 359; in 
i. iii, 586; and e Chronicon Virdu wnense : Dal, cee viii, 290. 
. By a change of 1 the year, the following quotation (first cited 
by Mr. Frihn) from Eutychtt .... Annal., 11, 529, would refer to 
the same display. 
“er ol, Kew) who oe BAxK)! isd eG se ats x; ~e us eS) 
gd Pu bh ged) oT 
And there was an earthquake, in Egypt, on the aoe day of Dhu-l-Ka’dah of 
this year [A.H. 323] ; and flaming stars struck against one another violently. 
The 3d day of Dhe- 1-Ka’dah of 323, A. H., is the 4th of Oc 
tober, A.D. 985. But the same day of the year 322 is the 15th 
of October, A. D. 984. 
The European chroniclers seem to imply that the shower was 
on the morning of the 14th of October. The Chinese and Arab 
accounts, on the contrary, point to the morning of the 1éth. It 
En 6 bectak on voyalt ne gra saraiin dol ne e suivie Pane izai he de pha Groiles. 
elles, on a ercut deu étoiles gro comme un dixiéme de boisseau: ce 
lérent, Pune jusqu’a Veto Lang (Sirius), Vautre jusqu ‘au Teou u midi (9, 2, 7, Sag- 
ittaire) et elles dispa et ee oe Catalogue, &c., p. 
A.D erio fth Year : r, ninth’ month, 35th day of the eae Abr 
idth}, ‘hier’ were seen cricie thous: rr 3) — stars, whic appeared 
group 4, 7,6, Cancri, and went as far a oup A, u, Ursae } a: General 
large star was sae followed by a half score of small stars. Among them were seen 
two stars as large as a quart tncasure; t Pe went, one to the star Sirius, the other 
“to the group 9, ¢, 1, Sagittarii, and van hed. 
The date in this case I pa to be the morning of the 15th of 
October, for the reason before given. Probably the radiant at 
this time was in Cancer, rather than % in Leo. 
Vy. 2D. OL. 
“1101. 17 Octobre, Visae sunt stellae be coelo ee 
, i, 217, as quoted by A. Perrey, Comptes Rendus 
Vie AD: soon) sted by 
“The following accounts of a shower in this year are Cl 
Mr. Prahn ‘fro rom the Arab writers (Bull. de Acad. de St, Pel 
ii, 314). _ 
