[No place], 1871. 8vo. In the original blue wrappers with author's inscription, ""From the author"", to front wrapper. Offprint from ""The Quarterly Journal of the Meteorological Society"", november 15, 1871. Wrappers with soiling, otherwise fine. Pp. 33-37 + large folded plate.
Reference : 47909
Scarce offprint issue inscribed by the author of this short memoire of his observations of the meteors in August 1871.Alexander Stewart Herschel (1836 - 1907), son of John Herschel and the grandson of William Herschel, did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy. Herschel was the first to observe a meteor spectrum.
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