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the same system. They were bright meteors, eight of them 
appearing equal to stars of the first magnitude, and eighteen of 
the twenty-nine left streaks. On the night of the 13th the shower 
was seen by the writer at Bristol, where observations were 
commenced in the early evening at 5 h 30 m , and maintained 
until 17 h , during which period exactly 100 shooting stars, 
were recorded. Of these, eighteen were Leonids ; four of them 
were brighter than the stars, in fact the meteors generally 
from this shower are finer than the average. The radiant point 
was very distinctly shown at 148° + 23°, being extremely near 
Mr. Corder’s position and to Professor Herschel’s average 
centre at 149° + 23° for the great shower of Nov. 13, 1866. 
Every meteor left a bright streak, and the flights as regis- 
tered are exhibited in the accompanying plane-perspective 
diagram (Fig. 2). 
The maximum occurred at about 15 h , Nov. 13, when these 
bright Leonids were appearing in rapid succession ; but imme- 
diately afterwards a lull ensued, and meteors came only one now 
and then from the sickle of Leo , now risen high and clear in 
the eastern sky. The position of the radiant as determined 
this year coincides exactly with previous observations, and is- 
shown in the annexed sketch (Fig. 3) : — 
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Fig. 3. Position of the radiant point (R) among the stars in the Sickle of Leo . 
On the night of November 14, the shower was observed by 
Mr. Gray at Bedford, who, however, failed to see the outburst 
on the preceding night. He says : “Part of the sky was 
observed from 7 h 30 m to 8 h 30 m , and from 9 h 30 m to 18 h . 
Thirty-eight meteors were seen ; at 14 h and 17 h they followed 
