Letter, from Robert Treat Paine to Sir John Herschel, dated at Boston, Mass. Autograph letter signed by sender. Wonders if people at the Cape observed the large fall of meteors during the night of 12 Nov. 1833; comments on this and gives theories of one professor. John Frederick William Herschel's name was used for newspaper article on discoveries on the moon; the person responsible was R. A. Locke. Encloses one of his own memoirs on the eclipse. 24 May 1836