ASTRONOMY FOR 1S89, 1890. 



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Comet 1890 VII : This comet, the most iuteresting perhaps of those 



— Comet/ 1890. j fouucl (luriug the year, on account of its short 

 period, was discovered by R. Spitaler at Vienna, jSTovember IG, 1890. 



Dr. S]>it:iler, in looking for the comet discovered by Zona, turned the 

 27 inch telescope towards the place which it should occupy, according to 

 the dispatch received by him, and immediately perceived a very faint 

 comet, but concluding from the description that Zona's was brighter, by 

 turning the telescoi)e a little he found the latter, physical connection 

 between the two being excluded by the slower motion of his own. The 

 l)eriod appears to be about 6.4 years. 



Ajiproximate elements of the comets of 1889 (i7id 1890. * 



* See Astronomical Journal, Nos. 212 and 238. 

 METEORS. 



A valuable resume of meteoric astronomy has been published by Prof. 

 J, li. l']astman in the Bulletin of the Pliilosopliical Society of Washing- 

 ton. (Vol. XI.) Abstracts of the various theories propounded in ex- 



