AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[SECOND SERIES.] 
Art, XXXI.—On certain recent contributions to Astro-Meteor- 
ology; by H. A. Newron 
1. Radiant points, or radiant areas. © 
| For more than twenty years a Committee of the British As- 
_ Sociation for the Advancement of Scien e = annually made an 
extended report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, i n which 
ike manner, from observations ns ae fini and his as- 
Pied ts during a period of uced a similar and, 
toa Gndhtevebie extent a corre poate series of Boks points. 
€ latter series is in the erp 
Soc. ) Xxiv, 213. oa pe are in the ae of the ‘British an 
i cna appear to endure for almost any ses twenty 
hours to — or possibly ten — differing from one gee ey in wich: 
AM. Jour. Scr.—Szcox 1. XLII, No. 129,—May, 1867, 
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