392 Meteoric Shower of November, 1837. 
Let ~ wT, &c. represent the zodiac, and let A be the place 
of the earth in its orbit on the 13th of November. Let c rep- 
resent a nebulous body so situated with respect to the earth that 
the extreme portions nearest to the earth sball lie across the earth’s 
path. The sun being seen among the stars at S’, the body c, sup- 
posed to consist of light nebulous matter, would be projected over 
a great space, rising to the westward of the sun towards Leo as rep- 
resented in the figure. Let B be the place of the earth after it has 
passed by the nebulous body, (the sun being at 8”) and let the body 
be at c’; it would be seen in the heavens on both sides of the sun, 
rising after sunset towards the constellations Aquarius and Pisces. 
The existence of such a nebulous body, which afforded the me- 
teoric shower of 1833, was inferred without the least reference to 
the Zodiacal Light.* The inquiry now is, does that light answer 
to the conditions of the supposed body? if so, we infer that it is in 
fact the body itself, and its suecessive appearances will lend impor 
tant aid to the theory suggested, as a source of evidence entirely 
independent of those from which the existence of the nebulous body 
was inferred. 
* Sée Vol. xxv of this Journal, p. 162. 
