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center indicated. It forms an active display, but had been overlooked by Heis 

 and others, who had, however, recorded many of its meteors. The forerunners 

 of this shower are visible at the latter end of July, and there is a radiant at the 

 same place Oct. 28 — Nov. 7. 



5. R. A. 6i°+37°, Aug. 6-12, (59 meteors); Sept. 7-15, (34 meteors); 

 Oct. 20 — Nov. 14, (43 meteors.) A series of active, well defined showers from 

 a point below Epsilon Persei. The positions are severally confirmed by Heis, 

 Aug. 12-19, at R. A. 64°-f-39°, (16 meteors); Zexioli and Tupman, Sept. 7-15, 

 R. A. 6 3 °+36°, and A. S. Hersche', Nov. 6, 1869, R- A. 62°-j- 3 7 , (a fire- 

 ball). It gives a fine shower of bright streak-leaving meteors at the middle of 

 September. There is another shower at R. A. 62°-j-48°, apparently sustained 

 for an equally long period, and showing a well defined radiant quite separate from 

 the foregoing. No less than 193 meteors conform to the latter shower, and its 

 chief activity is from Aug. 6-12, and Oct. 20- — Nov. 13. 



6. R. A. 3o6°-)-54 , (31 meteors,) Sept. 1. Meteors have often been ob- 

 served to be numerous and brilliant on this date. A careful reduction of the 

 observations has led to the determination of a strong radiant N. of Alpha Cygni. 

 15 of the 31 meteors conformable to it were of considerable brightness. 



7. R. A. io2°-|-48 , (61 meteors,) Oct. 15 — Nov. 13. Well observed 

 1877. The exact center is uncertain. There may be two showers here at R. A. 

 io5°-j-5i°, and R. A. 98°-)-45 , and more observations are required to settle the 

 point. It is a rich radiant, giving very swift, short meteors in the mornings of 

 October, and it again becomes a center of divergence on Jan. 1-15, Apr. 1-12. 

 For the latter epoch, I find a good radiant c f brilliant meteors at R. A. 

 io6°+46°. 



8. R. A. i42°-j-28°, (50 meteors,) Oct. 15 — Dec. 12. On the mornings of 

 Oct. 16-19, 1877, a few meteors (including one stationary) leaving bright streaks 

 were observed from a point near Epsilon Leonis at R. A. i4o°-)-28 , and the 

 same point was amply confirmed on the two ensuing months by the directions of 

 the meteor paths, in foreign catalogues. The maximum probably occurs early in 

 November, and its meteors must be dis-associated from the Leonids. Schmidt is 

 the only observer who had detected it before, for he gives a center at R. A. 140 

 -f-23 , Oct, 19-27, which is, however, 5 S. of the true radiant point. This 

 stream is evidently of very long duration, and must not be confused with other 

 systems close to it, at R. A. i32°-|-2o , (69 meteors,) and R. A. i2o°-(-i5 , 

 (33 meteors,) which also appear to supply many shooting-stars during the last two 

 months of the year 



9. R. A. 43°-(-22 , (69 meteors,) Oct 20— Nov. 13. Maximum Oct. 31 — 

 Nov. 4. This shower vies with the Taurids I. in intensity and in the splendor of 

 its meteors- It was traced by me in 1877, and described as a rich shower of 

 bright, slow moving meteors, distinct from the Taurids, though very liable to be 

 confused with them, for they come near together in date and place. Many large 

 meteors have been seen during the first few days of November, and a projection 



