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from the same direction. It was remarked by Mr. | by side, or pursuing each other upon the same path, was 
Backhouse, and it must have been apparent to most | frequently observed, and occasionally, as noticed by Mr. 
attentive observers of the shower, that the meteors far | S. H. Miller at Wisbeach, who, as well as Mr. Denning 
from the radiant point did not always appear to move | at Bristol, supplied the accompanying sketch of such 
in parallel paths when in the same part of the sky; thus | meteors through closely adjacent courses of 20° or 30°, 
at once giving the idea that the radiant area was | yet it was perhaps in the often occurring exceptions to 
really of considerable extent. Although the contrary | this rule, and in the absence of the long-enduring light 
phenomenon of two or three bright meteors apparently | streaks, left parallel to each other on such occasions by 
running a race with each other in parallel courses side the Leonids, that the recent meteor shower differed most 
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APPARENT PLACES OF THE RADIANT-POINT OF THE STAR-SHOWER OF NOVEMBER 27, 1872 
No. ‘ Gieaiee Plazevée OMe | aoe Naat Position of the Radiant Point by the Stars aud Constellations, 
} From; To R. A. |N.Decl 
h. m.| h. m. 
1 | Ph. Breton. | Grenoble (France). iy, 0°) 8. 0 | (Os. | 40) or be be Cassiopeia and the square of 
egasus. 
2 | J. W. Durrad. Leicester. (o | 50) South-west of Cassiopeia. 
3 | W. FL. Wood. | Birmingham. |6 0} 1015} § | 50 | Near & Cassiopeice (outlying radiant). 
4| E. V. Pigott. Malpas. | | 9 | 50 | About & Cassiopeic. 
5 | Communicated by 
Mr. Denning. France. | (10 48) | South of Cassiopeia. 
6 | Warkins Old. Hereford. (10 50) | A little south of Cassiopeia, 
7 | Go HH: Birkenhead, | 5 30} 100] 2 50 | South of u Cassiopeize 
8 | J. J. Plummer. Durham. ae Oo 15 46°5, Close to  Andromede, 
9g | H. Weightman. Oundle, Be 30|07 3514 13 51 Beymece 6 Cassiopeize and 51 Andromedze 
(v Persei). ; 
to | A. S. Herschel. Newcastle-on-Tyne, }6 0/7 o| 20 40 | Near v Andromede 
11 | W. H. Wood. Birmingham. |6 0/1015) 20 45 | Near w by 
12 | J. Birmingham. Tuam (Ireland). 21°7| 45°5| Near x s 
13 | Dr. J. G. Galle. Breslau (Germany). 6 20:7 50) 22 42 | Nearv ag 
14 | F. B. Knobel. Burton-on-Trent. 5 35/6 so} 2275] 44 | Nearx fy 
15 | M. de Gasparis, Naples (Italy), FiO. | kOer On|» 23 43 | Nearv Ae 
16 | A, Marth. Gateshead. 5 45)6 30) 24°5| 43 | Nearx an 
17 | T. H. Waller. York, 6 0} Io 15} 25 40 | Near y - 
18 | T. W. Backhouse. Sunderland. 5 30) 11rs5 | 25 44 | Nearx A 
1g | R. Grant and G, 
Forbes. Glasgow. 5. 35| 10 30) 25 45 | Near x fe 
20 | W.FSwan. — St. Andrews (Scotland). | 8 20) 11 30) 25 48 | Near p 5 
21 | T. P. Barkas, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 15 45|6 45) 26:2) 43 | Near x fe 
22 | E. J. Lowe. Beeston (Notts). | 5 50| 10 30| 26:2) 46:2| Near + ae 
2} |nor Jesberry. Stonyhurst. Q 29) 26°6| 43°38) Near y a 
24 | Mr, Fearnley. Christiania (Norway). 25] Ol. acta a7, 43 | Neary FY, 
25 | Dr. E. Heis.- Miins'er (Westphalia). S40 19) oO | 27 50 | Near » Persei (54 Andromede). 
26 | J. J. Plummer. Durham. {9 45) 27 56 | Near x Persei 
27 | W. B, Shorto. Suez (Egypt). (28 41) | General centre between Aries, Perseus, and 
} | Cassiopeia. 
28 | G. Lespiault. Bordeaux (France). 0} 9 30} 28 44 | Near y Andromede. 
29 | F. Denza, Moncalieri (Piedmont). | Gy 0 | (n2°0"|'s 28 41°7, y Andromede. 
30 | A. D. P. Newcastle-on-Tyne. 16 0/6 30] 28 41°7| Close to, if not coincident with, Mirach 
| (y Andromedz). 
31 | H. W. Hollis. Newcastle (Staffordshire). 7 40) 8 17) (28 55) | Between Perseus and Cassiopeia. 
32 | M. Glotin, | Bordeaux (France). 5 O}9 30|- 29 43 | Near y Andromede. 
33 | W. F. Denning. Bristol. +5 5016 30) 29 46 | Neary ¥ 
34 | M. Lernosy. | Macon (France). le 0) 13-0 |pe 30 50 | Neary, > Persei (51, 54 Andromedz), 
35 | A. Secchi. | Rome (Italy). 8 o (31 29) | Between Aries, Triangulum, and Musca. 
36 ” ” 9 0 | 31 34 | Near B, y Trianguli. 
37 99 9 120 | (35 38) | Between Triangulum and head of Medusa. 
38 | W. Garnet. Clitheroe. 7 5018 35) 40 35 | A point on the verge between Triangulum 
and Perseus. 
* The position at R.A. 2h. 45m., N. Decl. 46}°, given in Mr. Lowe's description of the shower, in the Ties of November 29. is apparently a 
' misprint for rh. 45m. (26}°), which is here adopted as the R.A. of the Radiant-point near y Andromedz. close to which star Mr. Lowe describes 
the appearance of astationary meteor at 8h. 52m., as bright as that star, among the many meteors which he observed, apparently without motion 
about the radiant-point. 
remarkably from its great precursors of the 13-14th| radiant point of the 13th of November meteors, from 
November, 1866-7.. In his suggestions to observers and . Leo, about a point of very accurate divergence of their 
conjectures on the probable early identification of this | tracks. From the situation of the comet’s paths, and 
meteor-shower, published in the Transactions of the| from its small velocity relatively to the earth, small 
Vienna Academy of Sciences in 1868, it was remarked | deviations from parallelism in the original courses of the 
by Prof. Weiss, from the near approximation of the | meteors would appear as considerably exaggerated incli- 
meteors in the direction of their motionto that of the | nations of the visible meteor-paths to each other, and as 
earth in its passage through their stream, that the radiant | somewhat more exaggerated ones (the original velocities 
region of this star-shower, even when witnessed at its | of all the meteors being supposed the same)—in the pro- 
greatest intensity, would probably prove to have a con- | portion of about 10 to 7—when the deviation is transverse 
siderable area rather than to. be concentrated, like the | to, than when it is in the same plane as the direction of 
