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a liu, running 8.18" W. throu/h the centre of the *~ D - 



i South America a Stones ................... Padna ............... 1510 



>s a line Stones ................... Mt. Vasier ........... 1687 



.:i i-min'm.' N. iM \V., :i little oast of Sulphuroul Uain ......... < openhagen ......... 1644 



i.Miits u Sulphurous Uuin ......... Duchy of Murmfic-ld. . .1668 



lo. In tin- S:iinl- Unknown Matter ......... Ireland .............. 1 ;'.."> 



it may have liren seen Stones ................... Larissa, Macedonia... 1706 



. have the peculiar characteristics of those seen Fin- ..................... Quesnoy ............. 1717 



in the Stones ................... Atlantic ............. 171'J 



dilation of the numbers ro.porteilin the New Sulphur .................. Brunswick ........... 17^1 



is shows that then- is u very note- Stony Mass .............. Normandy ........... 1750 



;:nl>ers seen by different per- Masses of Iron ........... Hradchina ........... 1751 



Mliii'L 1 , during :i tfiven inti-rval. This Stones ................... Bohemia ............. 1753 



-:, to the unequal uttentiveness Stones ................... Lipcnas .............. 1775 



ami q eye ot tho observers, and to the di- Stones ................... Verona .............. 1762 



, inl which they arc looking. The person Stone ................... Luce ................ 1768 



,v who se.-s the largest number of meteors Stone ................... Aire ................. 1768 



duriiivr <"ir minute Is, moreover, not always he who Stone ................... Le Cotentin ......... 1768 



amber another minute. Stars .................... Quito ................ 



II mi rely implicitly upon the counting Stars .................... Europe .............. 1787 



of one person to determine the minor variations ot Stones ................... Barboutan ........... 1789 



densii\ i 'ft In- stream of meteoroids, as wo pass through Stones ...... : ............ Agen ................ 1790 



it. Again, the numbers seen at different places by Stones ................... Tuscany ............. 1791 



observers cannot bo compared with the same Stone ................... Yorkshire, Eng ...... 1795 



: -lire as tho numbers seen by two parties of con- Stone ................... Portugal ............. 1796 



i hie size. Individual peculiarities may reason- Stone ................... VilleFranche ......... 1798 



al'ly be expected to disappear to a certain extent in Stone ................... Ehone ............... 1798 



tin-' latter case. Stars .................... - ............... 1798 



Tho other observations of 1867 and 1866 show that Stones ................... East Indies .......... 1798 



the diminution of the intensity of the display was Stare .................... Europe .............. 1799 



.ipid than the increase. This is due evidently Iron ..................... America ............ 1800 



to the gradual increase in the apparent altitude of the Stones .................. Normandy ........... 1802 



radiant toward morning. A tolerable correction might 'Stare .................... Canada .............. 1814 



be made for this cause oy dividing the numbers ex- Stars .................... North Sea ............ 1818 



pressing the intensity of tho display by the sine of Stars .................... Canada .............. 1819 



tlie altitude of the ra'liant. Stars .................... Spain ............... 1831 



That tho radiant should not have breadth in lati- Stars .................... Ked Sea ............. 1832 



tude seems necessarily to follow from the very small Stars .................... United States ........ 1833 



thickness of the stream. In one hour tho earth moves Stars .................... America and Europe. . 1834 



about 20.000 miles in a direction perpendicular to the Stars .................... Europe .............. 1836 



plane ot the meteor group. The duration of the Stone ................... Cape of Good Hope .. 1840 



shower is limited to a few hours at the utmost, and in Stones ................... Bohemia ............ 1847 



its greatest intensity to one or two hours. But if the Stare .................... Greenwich ........... 1865 



radiant has a breadth in latitude of only a single do- Stars .................... Europe .............. 1 Stiii 



gree, it would seem to follow that the group is more Stars .................... United States ........ 1867 



than a million of miles in thickness, which would 



give us a shower lasting for days. rr,, o>, OW p r O f iQrrf W}1 r^fh the exwntion 



That the radiant has length implies that the peri- - *J "L *vf K Ki exceptio 



helia of the orbits ore distributed considerably in the of tliat of 1833 the most remarkable of which 



plane of the stream. If the radiant is 5 long, the W6 have any reliable account. 



din i-tions of the relative motions of the meteors from METHODISTS. I. METHODIST EPISCOPAL 



the two ends of tho radiant differ 5;. The directions CHURCH. The statistics of tho principal societies 



SiS^SSK^S diliv ;!,;!? --rx ? f * he Ch ;v r . ch . dlirin V h . e year , 'fVTV 9 



plies a distribution of the perihelia of the orbits of follows: Misaionnry Society of the Methodist 



the indi\idu:il meteoroids along an extent of about Episcopal Church (organized in 1819): Receipts 



17' in a plane of tho group. 584725.22 ; decrease, $86,365.44. It supports 



cirele whose radius is the aphelion distance. Seven- 

 teen degrees on such a circle would be nearly nine 

 times the distance from tho earth to tho sun. 



The number of phenomena of the kind gen- 

 erally denominated meteoric showers (whether 

 oft ho cometary matter called "shooting-stars" 

 or other und mow palpable substances), which 

 have been of sufficient importance to become 

 subjects of historical record since the Christian 



era, is 52, as shown in tho following table: 



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Bten .................. Constantinople ..... 479 



Stars .................... Constantinople ....... 903 



Stars .................... Constantinople ....... 1021 



England ............. 1095 



IjiSd ............. }}?S 



Stars ..'.!'.'.'.'.!l!!'.!!!!!!iEni;llmd '.'.'.'.'.'.!!!'.!!!i362 

 Stones ................... Eusisshcim . . . .1492 



Extension Society (organized 

 1864): Receipts $88,105. It has assisted dur- 

 ing the year in building 139 churches. Sunday- 



scho l ^^^^^ W&Sit i? 

 crease, $1314.9o ; Sunday-schools, 15341 (m- 



cr ^ e ' 1 #fii <3 . te f. hcr ^ l ^ 

 scholars, 1,081,891 ;. volumes m libraries, 2,784 

 95 ' U >ow an mcrease from last year. 

 : Kecei P ts ' $20,633.00 (decrease, 



lliere are under the charge of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church twenty-three colleges and 

 universities, five theological seminaries, and 

 eighty-two seminaries, female colleges, and 

 academies. 



At the close of the year 1867 the statistics 

 of the Methodist Episcopal Church were as 

 follows : 



