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east counted in five minutes (beginning about 10 h 20 m ) 71 

 meteors. Mr. Abell then began to locate the radiant. It was 

 between Aries and Andromeda but the meteors did not fall so 

 numerously as before and it took five or ten minutes to see 

 three or four start near enough to the radiant to locate it 

 approximately, — a little to the north of the triangle, — between 

 Aries and Andromeda. A sketch of the stars made by Mr. 

 Abell places the radiant near R. A. l h 40 m and Dec. + 35°. 

 The sky was very clear all the time. 



A t Albuquerque, JV. M. — Rev. M. R. Gaines writes that at 

 a little before ten o'clock (presumably by time seven hours 

 from Greenwich) the meteors were quite frequent, — he 

 " counted 100 in a few minutes, as many as three at a time 

 being visible." No very large ones, and none with trains of 

 any great durability were noticed. He was told that the 

 shower was noticed two hours earlier than the time when he 

 first saw it. At eleven o'clock the rate was somewhat less 

 than when first noticed, but meteors were still frequent at that 

 hour. 



At other places. — From the newspapers we learn that Profs. 

 Young, Rees, Davidson, and Hale, and others observed the dis- 

 play. It seems better to wait for their responsible accounts 

 than to incur the risk of perpetuating the unavoidable errors 

 of newspaper reports. 



This display seems to me to be the successor of the sprinkle 

 observed at New Haven and Germantown on the 24th of 

 November, 1872 (this Journal, II, vol. v, p. 53) rather than of 

 the more brilliant display seen in Europe three days later, 

 that is Nov. 27th, 1872. 



There were no Andromed meteors seen so far as I know on 

 evenings of the 24th, 25th or 26th, though in New Haven, 

 and generally in the eastern part of the United States the 

 skies were clear. On the uight following Nov. 27th it was 

 generally cloudy in the United States., 



Shooting Stars in Mexico, Nov. 27th. — Mr. A. J. Newton 

 and Mrs. A. G. Dana left Torreon in the afternoon of Nov. 

 27th en route for New Orleans. Between eight and eleven 

 o'clock they saw through the windows of the car (single thick- 

 ness of plate glass) a large number of shooting stars. It 

 seemed hopeless, says Mrs. Dana, to count them. They came 

 two and more at a time, and they formed a continual display of 

 celestial fireworks. 



