[Letters to Editor]

Abstract

WITH reference to Mr. Haslam's remarks (NATURE, December 10, p. 128) as to the coincidence of auroræ with star-showers, I believe that their combined apparitions have no meaning further than that resulting from pure accident. I have seen many rich star-showers without the faintest visible trace of auroral manifestation, and many bright displays of auroræ have been watched here without indication of an associated starshower. Still, the circumstance that certain meteoric displays have occurred contemporaneously with other phenomena, is interesting (though not, perhaps, significant, as intimating any physical connection), and such records should always be preserved, as possibly having a value which further observations may elucidate.