150 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
1863, Jan. 1, from 18h 30™ to 18h 40™—an interval of only 10™— 
observed eight bright shooting stars, in the increasing twilight: one very 
brilliant one describing an arc of about 30° in an interval estimated at 1* 2, 
and leaving a bright train lasting 4 or 5 seconds. e radiant was re- 
ype definite for so few flights 8; ite a ae being in 
RAI 2m, Dec, +-46° a near the star v Herc Two meteors 
out fora tales time before daybreak . saw, for the time, an unusual num- 
ber of shooting stars, on a erage one appearing every 3 ‘a 4*minutes. 
brilliancy of the variable Star, Mira Ceti; by SriLimMan 
Mastermay, (in a letter to the Editors). —Below are given “a results of 
comparisons of the brilliancy of the variable star, Mira Ceti, with 
that of neighboring stars, made oe the wane of its late period of vis- 
ibility. The late increase of this star occurred at the period during 
which it was nnobcrabl owing to pel to the sun, 
1862, July 25, 15-0 oO sya & -0, 
27,145 o 2b y, a 840, 
July 30,142 o 1h y, 
Aug. 6,145 y #20, 
yee oe Ss Oe ly a Pind 
12,145 y 3(?)0, o $ a Pisum bright moonlight. 
17,150 «Pis 1 0,0 2 
24, 15°56" 2 G0 2 €?, 
30, 13°83 a4 0, 0 8 sy Bright auroras, (changing the ap 
Aug. 31, 13°0 (i 1} 0, 0 2h 1 cing bane ear 
Sep. 2,144 o1 4,04 », 
116°C) 6 eet Os, 
15, 130° #28; 
19,150 02 5,04 170 
31,160 <0 F°46; 6 24 70 
22,145" 0° %5, 6 2 . 70; 
146 0 170,751 © 
24, 14 4 
1862, Sep. 30,13°0 70 2 0, o 14 396 B, 
Weld, Franklin Co., Maine, Nov. 28, 1862. 
VIII. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
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