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took thirteen years from the time these important distinctions were 
established and divulged by Americans to the highest authorities 
on the subject of Physiology, a cognized on the continent, to 
make an impression on European physiologists so far as to lead 
them to put it into a text-b This is not, surely, the — likely 
to promote the progress of true knowledge, an and has too frequen tly 
the effect as wellas the appearance of a suppressio veri 
Eve. W. Hiearp, 
University of Mississippi, Jan, 8, 1868. 
3. On the spectra of the meteors of November 13-14, 1866; by 
Joux Brownine, Esq.—To view the shower I chose the observa- 
don. 
I devoted Ar attention "as posible to attempting to obtain the 
ato y meteors as 
spectra o 
After catching a few s in different directions, I at lergth 
decided on ecg hs the di oe ial ome inted a little to the 
F Pe the ra vid TF flight of meteors rendering the very dif 
1 cannot pretend to speak with confidence of the ap- 
pearance of the spectra shown by the prism; but I saw a great 
between the spectra; I believe that I saw spectra of the 
A. Conikiitaial spectra, or those in which the = of the colors 
of the solar spectrum were 5 tinible sor ee the vi — 
B. Spectra in which the yellow greatly preqibineeted: t tecag 
in aoa. other res mbled those above described. 
Hes of shansse pe — caage gare i peor an. ak but with 
a faint continuous 
side and ot ge on fpr ompeiles yen of ns rviliew portion of the 
Se Spectra of purely homogeneous green light ; of this kind I 
Ww 
V observed through the Sage spectra of sev eral trains. The 
light, which was mostly blue, green, or steel-grey, pelea ap- 
peared homogeneous ; but this may have arisen from the light hav- 
ing been too faint to en: . visible spectrum. Stars below the 
second or third magnitude, al though visible through the prism, 
fail from this cause to give ‘spectra in which blue and red are per- 
om babl be remarked that I have not spoken of having 
observed sny line inthe petra. All the nuclei to give 
