Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1131 17 1131-17-p088

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= | =| 1 408 W. F. Denning ‘ were not very exactly recorded, but ‘no material lengthening out conld have occurred. Probably the meteors existed in nearly the same distribution before their immersion, and combustion in our atmosphere. The resistance of the air, and terrestrial attrac- tion, would seem to have counteracted the effects of the earth’: curvature, and to have kept the stream well in tow, at a pretty equable heig’ ‘The tail end of the stream certainly did not consist of the same...