130 Scientific Intelligence. 
the same morning, in the hour between 2° and 33, a. m., Mr, A. 
Van Name, Mr. O. Harger, and the writer, saw at New Haven 34 meteors, 
most of them small ones. Only three or four of these were regarded a3 
going toward Leo. These did not present in their physical eee 
resemblances to the November meteors. 
The result of the whole of the observations on this evening was to 
confirm the 334 year period. Since that time the remarkable results 
of Prof. Adams’s computations have been received, which leave no longs 
the yap pina! of a doubt as to the true period. H. A. ¥ 
lements of Comet 1862,—Dr. Oprouzer of Vienna, has given — 
ae Astronomische Nachrichten, No. 1638, the following corrected 
palin si as Comet III, 1862, which is connected with the August 
up 0 
Osculation: 1862, Aug. 23-0 
Aug. 22°947139 Berlin m. t. 
290° 12! 47-8 
137 27 10 02 02 me equinox 1862°0 
113 34 12 :24 
9°9834650 
0°9607588 
log a 13897227 
per. time = 121°502 years. 
Schiaparelli suggests a period of 108 years for the August meteors 
the suggestion being based upon the following dates of star showers, 
from Quetelet’s and Biot’s catalogues; viz., 880, 833, 835, 841, 925, 926, 
933, 1029, 1243, 1451, 1779, 1784, 1789, 
08 
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WU TE tT 
period 0 of 108 years is however regarded by Dr. Oppolzer as incom 
patible with the observations, unless by ayes feed of errors w are 
altogether improbable. Planetary perturbations play a small pa -" it is 
believed, in the theory of this stream, as an exact determination of its 
nae. a doubtless show that it does not come near any planet t except 
Comet II, 1867.—A faint od was discovered by Mr. nee 
at Marcille on the third of April, 1867 
of Biela’s gna 
ble however, th 
that time 
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