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PARIS. Academy of Sciences, August 21.—M. Maurice Lévy in the chair.—The Perpetual Secretary announced to the Academy the loss it had sustained by the deaths of MM. Frankland and Bunsen, Foreign Associates of the Academy.—On the cause of the persistent luminous trains which accompany certain shooting stars, by M. Ch. André. Remarks on an observation by MM. Lagrula and Luizet of one of the Perseids seen on August 12; the luminous streak of the meteor could be seen for twenty minutes, during which time marked changes of form were obvious in the trail of the meteor.—On an infinite continuous group of transformation of contact between right lines and spheres, by M. E. O. Lovett.—A method for determining the Newtonian constant, by M. G. K. Burgess.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 60, 432 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060432b0
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