THE AUGUST METEORS. 
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quadrant. One of the most notable of these proceeds from 
the eastern extremity of Aries (44° + 25°), and supplies some 
bright meteors in the morning hours ; but the most con- 
spicuous shower discovered east of Perseus at this epoch, lies in 
Camelopardus, and in the diagram (fig. 4), a number of its 
meteors falling amongst the stars of Ursa Major, are re- 
produced from the catalogues of foreign observers. This 
shower, however, escaped the detection of Heis and others, 
who had been engaged in similar investigations, though it 
appears to be of more importance than several radiants in its 
vicinity which have been independently determined by several 
observers. At the end of July 1878, the writer noted a few 
Eig. 4. — Shower from Camelopcirduj 6 3 4- 71°), Aug. 6-12. 
brilliant, slow meteors, from a point at 96° + 72°, and this 
may have been an early evidence of the radiant which is 
placed in a region bare of large stars between Tclescopiurn and 
Polaris. It is just north of the triangle of faint stars (l. p. q. 
Camelopardi of Bode), east of a line drawn from f3 Auriga to 
Polaris, and will, no doubt, be frequently re-observed in 
future years, though the shower of Pe^seids usually mono- 
polizes attention at the epoch of its annual returns. 
There is a shower near rj Pcrsei (No. 2), well defined, on 
Aug. 6-12, Aug. 21-23, and Sept. 6-15. At the latter epoch it 
furnishes some fine meteors and constitutes a prominent dis- 
