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As the number of meteors which I counted on the evening of Wednesday last, November 27, varied considerably from the number in Mr. Lowe's tables (Times, November 29), I beg to offer you my observations, in case they should be of any value on account of the more southern point from which they were taken. I lay down on my back upon the flat roof of the house in which I live, and looked up towards the zenith. The radiating point of most of the meteors seemed to be in the area between Cassiopeia and Perseus. I observed a bright one between the stars representing the feet of Andromeda. It disappeared without traversing almost any visible track or angular distance, from which I drew the inference that it was near the radiating point. The number I counted was as follows:—
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ANDERSON, J. The late Meteoric Shower. Nature 7, 123 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/007123c0
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