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rarely) perceived, and which I had regarded as an effect of the 
earth’s rotation. 
preceded the principal meteor; all followed at a small distance. 
It was to the naked eye just such an appearance as was presented 
in the telescope by the meteor seen at Athens Oct. 18th, 1863. 
(Astr. Nach., No. 1915. 
European journals contain a large number of accounts of 
the shower as seen in England, Germany, France, Italy, and even 
farther east, in Egypt and Constantinople. 
In the last number of the Journal it was urged that the 
actual orbits of the individuals of each meteor-group intersected 
one portion of Biela’s comet was visible on the 2d and 3d of 
December: 
