The Leonid Meteors of 1904

Abstract

FROM results of observations of this shower as published in NATURE of November 24 it seems that Leonids were found to be somewhat numerous on the night of November 14. It is to be regretted that those observers who were able to count so many shooting stars on this night had not the following night equally clear, as at Dublin both November 14 and 15, though not to the same degree, proved favourable for observations, and it was on the latter night that the maximum occurred. Owing to the unsuitable weather that appears to have prevailed in many places on November 15, some details of the observations made on the successive nights of the epoch at the same place may prove interesting.