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his fears to me concerning the dissolution of this 

 modest little body, I remember having, in deploring 

 its loss, suggested that it might after all reappear in 

 the form of a meteor shower, perchance to become 

 known as the Enckids. There is the example furnished 

 by Biela's lost comet and the Bielids. It seems, 

 however, that if Encke's should at any time lose the 

 form of a comet we shall lose it altogether, for Dr. 

 Crommelin points out that its orbit is too distant 

 from the earth to give us any meteors. 



