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6. On meteoric showers in August; supplementary to Art. XX.— 
The facts below given, came to hand too late for insertion in their 
proper place. For those marked a. and 6.1 am indebted to the 
kind attention of my friend, Mr. Geo. C. Schaeffer, of New York. 
a. The following is the entire statement concerning the meteors 
seen in England, Aug. 10, 1833, an imperfect account of which was 
given at pp. 178, 179 of this volume. 
«A very remarkable flight of falling stars was seen between 10 P. M. and mid- 
the upper regions of the atmosphere, and the trailing light they left upon the sky 
was particularly curious and beautiful. This e pacaiered continued for a consider- 
able time; the velocity with which the meteors appeared to move was very great, 
Some of them were nearly in the zenith, but none approached the horizon. The 
general direction of their course was from Northwest to Southeast.”—Lees: Ana- 
alyst, Aug. 1834. 
b. In a register of the weather, kept at Edmonton, near London, 
by Mr. C. H. Adams, published in the London Literary Gazette, in 
the report for the week Aug. 2-8, 1834, it is stated, ‘‘ the innumer- 
able meteors which are nightly seen, shooting in all directions, are 
worthy of notice, as were those especially from 9 to 11 on the eve- 
ning of the 9th inst.”—Compare (5), p. 136. 
c. By No. 218 of ZL’ Institut, received here on the 11th Dec., it 
appears that M. Quetelet, at the session of the Royal Academy of 
Brussels, Dec. 3, 1836, stated his belief that shooting stars were 
unusually frequent about the middle of August, and more particular- 
ly on the 10th. In order to find facts in relation to this subject, he 
examined the Register of the Observatory of Brussels. The only 
observations there recorded of extraordinary appearances of these 
meteors, refer to Aug. 10, 1834, and Aug. 10, 1835. No special 
attention had, however, been given in the Register to observations 
of these phenomena.—L’Institut, fol. Paris, No. 218, p. 256. 
Aout, 1837. 
At the time when the last number of this Journal was published, 
I was not aware that any person in Europe or elsewhere, had ever 
advanced the idea of a meteoric shower in August. 
The statement on p. 359 concerning the tangential region, is 
inaccurate in the unrestricted form there given. In our latitude, it is 
true only about the times of the solstices, but in the intertropical lat- 
itudes it would, without much variation, hold true, during the year, 
The general propriety of the conclusion there stated, viz. that the 
