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PARIS. Academy of Sciences, October 2.—M. van Tieghem in the chair.—The Mayor of Chantilly informed the Academy that the inauguration of the statue erected to the Due d'Aumale would take place on October 15.—Orbit of the shooting star of August 24, by M. J. Comas Sola. This meteor, which was a very bright one, was observed at the Observatory of Català, had a relative direction nearly east to west, disappearing near a-Capricorn. Its absolute velocity was 50 kilometres per second. A similar meteor was observed on August 28 at 7.45 but of smaller lustre.—On the identity of solution of certain problems of elasticity and hydrodynamics, by M. Georges Poisson.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 60, 588 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060588b0
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