H. A. Newton on November Star-Showers. 377 
Art. XXXV.—Femarks on the Distillation of Substances of 
different Volatilities ; by M. Carry La. 
__ SOME experiments which have been recently published b 
M. Berthelot recall to me a similar and remarkable case whic 
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pointed out, we would naturally an to find it principally in 
case, when the less substituted ammonias predominate in quan- 
ty. Almost the whole of the triethylamin passes over in the 
first opie of the distillate, and subsequent ones, though rich 
Mm ethylamin and diethylamin, scarcely contain a trace of tri- 
ethylamin, 
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Anr. XXXVI.—The original accounts of the displays in former 
times of the November Star-Shower ; together with a determination 
of the length of its cycle, its annual period, and the probable orbit 
of the group of bodies around the sun; by H. A. NEwrTon. 
I the followin ges I pro to give, so far as I can, the 
Original accounts Of ice Hoplays of shooting stars which may 
be Considered the predecessors of the great exhibition on the 
ing of Nov. 13th, 1833. These accounts afford data for 
the determination of the length of the annual period, and the 
thirty-three year cycle. They farnish additional arguments (if 
Such arguments are needed) for the theory that the shooting stars 
Jour. Scr.—Srcoxp Sexes, VoL. XXXVII, No. 111.—Mar, 1864. 
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