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egun its existence and as suddenly ended it any minutes after 
a second came and went with a like singular and bewildering effect; 
and while I was in the f pointing out its exact position to a fellow 
exclamation. This remarkable consecution of a phenomenon against 
whi ; 
ofa star by a chromatic lens. I am not aware that any of \ 
telescopic researches hitherto made have been directed to such a study 
of the radiant. 
he simple method above explained appears to me more accurate for 
a determination of the radiant, than it would be to map down every 
flight in course as it occurs,—because of the unavoidable errors 12 
error in the direction of moderate flights, but one which does not at 
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of the flight. But, for other purposes, the mapping is indispensable to 
completeness of observation and record. « 
made coincidently—although without concert—by Mr. E. C. Hern 
the writer at New Haven, and by Mr. Benj. V. Marsh at Burli chat 
attention, 
* My own enumeration for August last, having been referred to among 
reported by Mr. Herrick, in the last number of this Journal, are here given. The 
