Abstract
THE METEORIC SHOWER OF OCTOBER.—Between October 13 and 28 last, inclusive, observations were obtained at Bristol on fourteen nights, and 197 meteors were seen in twenty-three hours of watching, chiefly before sunrise. Fifty-six of the meteors recorded belonged to one or other of the two principal displays of the October epoch near Geminorum (98°+14°, thirty-two meteors) and v Orionis (92° +15°, twenty-four meteors). The former was also the stronger shower in 1916, and in some previous years, though in 1877 and 1887 the Orionids formed by far the richer display. Of the minor showers the most active were at 42°+ 20° in Aries, and 163°+ 59° near ft Ursae Majoris.
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