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THE expected display does not appear to have been a brilliant one. It may have offered a more attractive spectacle to American observers, for it seems to have been very probable that the richest part of the stream was encountered by the earth during daylight of the 14th in England. At stations far west an opportunity might have been afforded of witnessing a tolerably active return of the phenomenon; but of this we have not yet received definite information.
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DENNING, W., LOCKYER, W. & WHITMELL, C. The Leonid Meteor Shower, 1896. Nature 55, 54–55 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/055054a0
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