Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1131 17 1131-17-p014

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Collected Reminiscences of John Frederick Heard 127 ANOTHER ANNIVERSARY Tits MONTE This month marks the siaticth anniversary of the great meteor proces- sion of February 9. 1913, an event unique umong recorded meteoric phe- nomena ~ with which our Department is closely linked On that evening shortly after 9 o'clock E.S.T. hundreds of people in Ontario, Saskatchewan. New York State and on ships at sea as far south as. Bermuda witnessed the passage of a slow “majestic procession” of 20 to 30...