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THIS display appears to have been of rather a special character on August 11, and to have attracted a considerable amount of attention. At any rate, during the thirty years in which I have witnessed returns of the shower, I have never known it to have been so generally observed. Many people, quite unaware that such a phenomenon was in progress, on looking up and admiring the singular beauty of the night, noticed the meteors. They were so numerous and occasionally so brilliant that they were watched for a considerable time.
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DENNING, W. The Recent Perseid Meteoric Shower. Nature 58, 371 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058371a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/058371a0