Mr. Denning remarks, in his account of meteors for _Splendour of the Heavens_, “there are comparatively few astronomers, either professional or amateur, who cultivate the meteoric branch. They evidently do not regard it as an attractive study. In any case, it does not appeal to them sufficiently to enlist their sympathies, and so it has been comparatively neglected in recent years. A few ardent observers have, it is true, continued to devote themselves to the subject,” and he cites instances where two English ladies, Miss A. Grace Cook, director of the Meteoric Section of the B. A. A., in 1922, and the late Mrs. Fiammetta Wilson, endeavored to arouse more enthusiasm in this field of work by both practical example and advice. As an instance of the splendid enthusiasm of the latter, she has to her credit for meteoric observations carried on during an interval of ten years, the record of about ten thousand meteors. This is an average of a thousand a year, and anyone who has attempted to keep a steady watch on a starlit night in the hope of observing an evanescent meteor will realize what such a record means. It must have required an immense amount of patience, endurance, and untiring vigilance, for the wily meteor is so apt to take us unawares. The writer has had but one experience of the kind, and it was upon the occasion of the expected display of Leonids in 1899. The night was extremely cold, as one might expect during the month of November, when with two friends, Miss Harpham and Miss Tarbox, I stationed myself on the roof of an apartment house in New York City, on November 15, at 12.55. The record of our observations, which were continued until 6.00 A.M. at the hour of dawn, was afterward printed in _Popular Astronomy_, Vol. IX, 1901, pp. 82–83. During that time we observed sixty-eight meteors, of which, as the account shows, a few were intruders.