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and the 3rd of March (or in eight days), it must have lost fully 
fths of its light. 
As bearing on the sudden appearance of the star, we have an 
interesting note from Mr W. B. Dodd, of Whitehaven, who inde- 
pendently discovered the Nova on the night of February 23rd. 
On the night of the 21st, some three hours before the star was 
first seen by Dr Anderson, Mr Dodd’s attention chanced to be 
directed to the constellation of Perseus. He writes : 
“Occupied with Perseus at 11.45; tried to get the telescope 
pointed on e Persei, but the star had got too low for the stand 
I was using. I glanced across the constellation to Algol, and 
remembered that there was no star as bright as either of them 
[e or /3 Persei] in the space between.” 
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