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independent series of results confirmed each other in regard to 

 many of the new or doubtful meteor systems that were now 

 certainly established for the first time. It is not my intention to 

 give, in a brief paper like this, any of these results in detail, 

 because they are now being printed by the Royal Astronomical 

 Society, and would really interest those only thoroughly conver- 

 sant with, and working at this particular branch of astronomy. I 

 may however, give the dates and positions of a few of the 

 principal showers detected : — 



Several of these showers accord in place and epoch, with the 

 radiant points of comets as calculated by Prof. A. S. Herschel. 



Thus the comet of 1746 would give meteors from a point in 

 R.A. 23°^ Dec. 33^° N., on February 25. This corresponds 

 closely with my shower at 28'' 4-35'' for Feb. -Mar. The second 

 comet of 1825 has a radiant at R.A. 134°, Dec. 77° N.on Oct. 7. 

 My Oct. 2-5, shower at 133^4-79*^ agrees well with this. The 

 two July showers also indicate a cometary origin ; the one at 

 40"4-45» with the comet of 1764, and that at 37^4-4^° with 

 that at 770. The latter was a very fine comet with a bright 

 train, and if it is possible to associate a meteor shower seen in 



