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pointed out to me by Mr. Raine that in the lower apartment of 
the Hospitium there is a fragment of a monument of similar 
character. It is numbered 18 in the last edition of the descrip¬ 
tive catalogue, and thus described—A fragment of a sculptured 
stone, on which a female appears to have been represented 
reclining on a couch, and holding a small cup in her left hand.” 
It might have been added that a tripod table stands in front of 
the couch, serving decisively to mark the class of monuments to 
which it belongs. Nothing is said of the place from which it 
came. 
The Chairman (Mr. J. Ford) briefly alluded to the splendid 
display of meteors on the previous Wednesday evening, stating 
that at the Friends’ school, in Bootham, considerable interest 
was thereby excited, and he had pleasure in reading the follow¬ 
ing notice of the occurrence which had been prepared by his 
friend Mr. Waller :—He said that Professor Herschell invited 
astronomers to look out during the last week in November and 
the first week in December for meteors following in the track of 
Biela’s comet. This comet divided into two in 1846, almost 
under the eyes of astronomers. The two returned in 185^. In 
1866 they w^re expected and looked for, but not seen. The 
course of the comet agreed closely with the observed track of the 
meteors seen on the evening of Wednesday, the 27th ult. The 
usual November meteors radiate from Leo ; hence called Leo¬ 
nides. The meteors of last Wednesday had their radiant point 
near Andromeda, or, as observed by Mr. Waller, B.Sc., one of 
the masters at the Friends’ School, from a point in a line from 
Cassiopeia through Andromeda to Perseus. The radiant point 
determines identity. This, then, was the meteoric train of 
Biela’s vanished comet. About six o’clock on the evening of 
the 27th, twenty per minute were seen; at seven, about thirty- 
six ; and at eight, about fifty; so that several hundreds must 
have been observed. Biela, an officer residing at Prague, in 
February, 1826, observed the comet which bears his name. It 
has a period of about six and three-quarter years. Its return 
was predicted for 1832, and it crossed the earth’s orbit a month 
before the earth arrived at the point of intersection. 
