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mentary chart given last year at p. 445 of vol. xxxii. The siil- 



are they sufficient lyXfinit^trdiscred it u/ ''''" ""' ^ '" ™''^"'"' " 



Second. One meteor appeared " in the radiant" as "a stationary point 

 of brightness.'' This is a fourth instance added to the three narrated ia 



peatedly witnessed certainly deserves attention, on account of tlie over- 

 whelming improbability that either meteor of so limited a number should 

 be directed so exactly in tlie line of vision. 



Mr. Russell's record is the following: — 



" Saturday, Aug. 9fA,— One hour. Two to three o'clock, a. m., 8 meteors, 

 wiUi radiant a circle of 5° diameter including 6 Cassiopeia?.' 



Ihe moon bemg nearly full embarrassed the view, as did also the mist 

 The meteors seen were embraced in a circle of 30° or 40° radius about Per- 

 seus. AH but one or two radiated about the constellation Cassiopeia but ex- 

 hibited no decided point. Perhaps a ]ar<re circle of 5° diameter, including 

 3, would embrace five or six of the flio-hts 



Sunday, mh-Tv^o observers- W. G. Bryant and myself. 2h to 3h 40 

 meteors. Jh to :Jh 4pm, 50 meteors. Ih 40m, 90 meteors. The radiant I de- 

 •^T'l^o In/'i? ^ ^'I'^l? ?r ^° ^^ ^" [1°] ^^ '•«'J»"s, having its centre very nearly 

 in A. 41° 40' R. and N. P. D. 35° 15', or very nearly in centre of triangle formed 

 by j-y-4 Persei of Burritt's maps. About one-third of the meteors were in the 

 N.E. and the remainder in the N.W. Of the meteors which I observed in the 

 east all but two were conformable, or at least approximately conformable. Ot 

 the last none passed more than one or two degrees outside of the circle. The 

 ;„™ T-T^r^T ^^"^lled "Vlars in brightness, 15 having trains. A sUi- 

 iiomiry point of brightness was observed in the radiant once. This radiant con- 

 forms very closely to that of 10th and J 1th of Au?., IStil, as stated by B. V. 

 Marsh. (This Journal, Sept., 1861.) i ^"g-, looi, 



p. M.— Began observing at 9h. 9h to lOh in east 13, all but one conformj- 

 Shortly after the latter hour the clouds, which had been increasing since 9h, 

 caused so much embarrassment tfiat the watch had to be given up. Those 

 meteors seen af^er 9h appeared to radiate from the position of the previous 

 ""siT"^' B H *^ prevented any very accurate determination ofit^^^^^J 



seven of the largest meteors of the evening, two'' with trains, all radiatjng 

 from Cassiopeia. ^ 



^ asume.— lOth of Aug., 8h 40m to 11 p. m — 2h 20m-40 meteors. Of iO 

 --""" " ' with trains. Evident radiant same as previous 



M<mdny, Uth.-One hour. 8h to 9h p. m. 4 meteors. One with train, 

 three radiating from near 5 CassiopeiEe, and the other (the first observed) W"' 



Clouds prevented observations on the momintrg of 1 1th, I2th and I3th. 0" 

 seus. This shows that theThkknesT rf \hT « rfng ''^^""pTo'brbly near t^^e'^« 

 millions of miles, the earth being six or seven dayl in passing through it 



Upon the above record we remark farther that whether the ninety me- 

 W ? "7"/" u T'"'"^ ""^ *^« "^^^^ ^J two observers in l" 40«i ^re w 

 be divided equally between the two to obtain the rate for a single ob- 

 server is not clear; because it is not stated whether their attention «as 



T?l /n • '^""^ °'" '^ different quarters or spaces of the heavens. 

 him elf bv rfr"y " V ' V'^''*''^"^ ^^^« ^«^" furnished, as made bj 

 aimseit, by Mr. Benj. V. Marsh in a letter to Prof. H. A. Newton : 



