102 W. A. Norton on Comets. 
ing the sun, its temperature rises, and at the same time its 
mospheric electricity increases; condensations of aqueous V 
and their attendant electric discharges are now much less 
the sun, continually detaching particles of aqueous vapor. 
should be most abundant at the regions to.which the sun 
tical, and where the electric excitement produced by it 18 
greatest; and may give rise to the hemispherical form of a 
94). ies 
would seem also that differ- 
ent intensities of electrical dis- 
charge should be attended with 
differen i 
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