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DR. JANSSEN, director of the Meudon Observatory, has issued a circular in which he announces that the success of last year's observations of the Leonid meteors from a balloon has led to arrangements being made to repeat the experiment during the forthcoming shower. Last year, a number of these meteors were observed from a balloon above Paris, though the city itself was at the time enveloped in a thick fog. It is important that numerous observations of the Leonid meteors should be made from as many places as possible; and as balloons render observers independent of cloudy skies, they are evidently of great advantage upon occasions such as that to which astronomers are looking forward. We are informed that two balloon ascents are to take place near St. Denis. The first ascent will be made on the night of November 14–15, with the Aerostat, and the second, on the following night, with the Centaure. Two seats in each balloon will be at the disposal of Dr. Janssen, who will nominate observers to occupy them, without distinction of nationality. The names of the observers will be announced at the next meeting or the French Astronomical Society, on November 8.