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made up from foreign albumen of analogous chemical composition, 
or even from starch to which nitrates and phosphates have been 
added. 
Ill. Astronomy. 
the 13th of November, when the principal group was near its 
aphelion. The following dates, for instance, are given by Hum- 
boldt : 
1787, November 9th-10th. 1846, November 12th-13th. 
1818, November 12th-13th. | 1847, November 12th-13th. 
1822, November 12th. 1849, November 12th-13th. 
1823, November 12th—13th. | 
Can these displays, remote from the regular epochs, be satisfactorily 
accounted for ? 
dicity of the shower had been recognized, were noticed 
quence of a watch instituted for the purpose 
seen by Mr. Pogson, at Madras just after the star shower of 
27th, during the present year there have already appeare 
these bodies, 
1873, a.—Mr. Stephan, at Marseilles, on the 3d of April, por 
the comet 1867, b. (In, originally discovered by Tempel, 4 
1885 an 
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Faas shower from this meteor-cloud may be expected between 
