H. A. Newton on November Star-Showers. 387 
visible in Labrador and in Florida, would have been seen at in- 
termediate places but for the clouds. At Salem and New Ha- 
ven it was cloudy on that morning. 
XII. A.D. 1832. 
On the morning of Nov. 18th, A. D., 1832, unusual numbers 
of shooting stars were seen throughout Europe. Descriptions 
of the display were given at once in many of the newspapers 
and scientific journals. The most important of these were col- 
lected and published by Prof. Néggerath, of Bonn,” and Prof. 
Gautier, of Geneva.” The names of the places where the shower 
as said to have been witnessed, together with some expressions 
indicating its intensity, will enable one to form a fair idea of the 
— of the display. The places farthest east are mentioned 
rst 
In the island of Mauritius,” ‘the number of the meteors was 
80 great that it was impossible to count them.” At Orenberg,™ 
north of the Caspian Sea, “the sky was filled with shooting 
stars.” At Mocha,” in Arabia, “it appeared like meteors burst- 
Ing in every direction.” At Sudscha,” in Russia, “several hun- 
ied meteors were seen between 5 and 8 o'clock, so that while a 
one being seen.” They were seen at Kursk,” Ruiljsk,” Odessa,” 
1 
St. Petersburg,** Riga,'* Warsaw,” and Berlin.” “At Suczawa,” 
I various places in Switzerland; at Frankfort,” Stattgart,” and 
Carlsruhe,” in South Germany; at Brussels and Liege, in Bel- 
if 
Aix la Chapelle,” Lennep,” Bonn,” and Cologne.” At Salz- 
Uffeln, in Westphalia, “there were often three or four at once 
inthe sky.” At Diisseldorf,” Mr. Custodis counted 267 meteors 
between 4 and 7 o'clock. Mr. Le Verrier saw them™ and says, 
.'t would have taken several hours to count those visible at one 
stant, supposing them fixed.” (!!!) At Grenoble,” an ob- 
Server estimated that he saw at least 60 in 25 minutes. At Li- 
Moges,"* workmen were terribly frightened by the meteors. Near 
1 Schweigger’ , ; i i, 828- d Ixvii, 263. 
hwergger’s Journal Ch nd Physik, \xvi, 328-348, and Ixvii, 
not -ioliotheque jee ie Goa e, 1833, li, 189-207. This article I have 
seen. 
1 Comptes Rendus,v, 121, ~ 4 Astron. Nachrichten, xiii, 241. 
uw iiis Journal, xxvi, 136, : 
om Wochenzeitung ; quoted in Pogg. Annalen, xxix, 448. 
8 Schweig. Jour., xvi, 343. 
guoted in Pogg. Ann., xxix, 448. 
Ibid., xvii, 138. ¥ 
a qumples Rendus, ix, 808. 3 Schweigger’s Jour., Ixvii, 264 
iptes Rendus, v, 562. I take it for granted that the date is in error one day. 
