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The Meteoric Shower

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WHILE the observations of the recent meteoric shower continue to attract general attention, the following notes of some descriptions of the display that have reached me, which will contribute useful results for comparison with published accounts of the phenomenon that have already appeared, will, perhaps, be interesting to your readers:—

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HERSCHEL, A. The Meteoric Shower. Nature 7, 103–104 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/007103c0

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