It may be proper to remark that the language used by the writer in a volume[1] published several years since, and now nearly out of print, has been occasionally adopted in the following treatise.
Bloomington, Indiana, April, 1873.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE. | |
| Preface | [3] |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| A General View of the Solar System | [9] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Comets | [13] |
| Comets Visible in the Day-Time | [15] |
| Periodic Comets | [18] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Comets whose Elements indicate Periodicity, butwhose Returns have not been recognized | [31] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Other Remarkable Comets | [39] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| The Position and Arrangement of Cometary Orbits | [43] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| The Disintegration of Comets | [49] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Meteoric Stones | [57] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Shooting-Stars—Meteors of November 14 | [69] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| Other Meteoric Streams | [82] |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| The Origin of Comets and Meteors | [94] |