R. A. Newton — Andromed Meteors, etc. 61 



Art. VI. — Observations of the Andromed Meteors of No- 

 ' vember 23d and 27th, 1892 ; collected by H. A. Newton. 



On the evening of Nov. 23d there were seen at various 

 places in the United States shooting stars which radiated from 

 Andromeda, and which were apparently fragments from the 

 Biela Comet. 



At New Haven, Conn. — Dr. Elkin was in the open air for 

 some minutes about seven o'clock on the evening of Nov. 23d. 

 The sky was clear and he feels confident that if there had 

 been a great number of shooting stars, he would have cer- 

 tainly seen them. About a quarter past ten o'clock he was 

 informed by Mr. Chase that the meteors were coming in 

 unusual numbers. For a time they came so as to furnish 

 about ten per minute visible by one observer. Only a part of 

 the sky was clear. Most of the trains were short, not exceed- 

 ing four degrees in length. Very few were as bright as stars 

 of the first magnitude. 



Dr. Chase of the Yale Observatory was walking across the 

 Observatory grounds between ten o'clock and a quarter past ten 

 and in seven minutes counted 16 meteors. In the twenty min- 

 utes following he saw enough more to make in all more than 100 

 flights, that is, in 20 minutes he saw more than 84 meteors. 

 Most of them were faint and had short tracks. Very few 

 left trails. One however left a trail that was visible during 

 15 seconds. The radiant was very close to Gamma Androm- 

 edse. About 10 h 35 m he and Dr. Elkin gave up counting, as 

 the sky was nearly overcast and therefore the counts were 

 unsatisfactory. 



Mr. Van Name, the University Librarian, counted 50 in 

 five minutes between 10 11 50 m and 10 h 55 m . He was looking 

 southeast. The direction was almost straight down. There 

 were no very bright ones, though the train of one lasted a 

 second. 



Observations of Meteors at 1905 N St., Washington, D. C. 

 — Prof. J. R. Eastman writes : While crossing the street at 

 the corner of N and 19th sts., I saw a meteor near a Cassio- 

 pese, quickly followed by two more. In a short time 1 

 counted 15 and from 10 h 24 m to 10 h 43 ra I counted 102 meteors. 

 From 10 h 59 m to ll h ll m , 111 were counted, and from ll h 19 m 

 to ll h 41 m I counted 114, or, in all, 327 meteors in 53 minutes 

 by one observer. They were scattered all over the sky wher- 

 ever I could see, but in a general way they seemed to diverge 

 from a point about half way between y Andromeda and y 

 Cassiopese and near <p Persei. The coordinates of this radiant 



