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FROM my observations in preceding years I found the great shower of Perseids commenced on about July 25, and that the last visible traces of it were seen on August 22, after a duration of 29 days.
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DENNING, W. Early Perseids. Nature 36, 318–319 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036318b0
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