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IN sending you a provisional light-curve of Dr. Anderson's new star for publication in NATURE, my principal purpose has been to ascertain the nature of the curious fluctuations in the latter part of its course. I have no doubt that they are real, as even the slight irregularity in the descending curve, about March 5, has been independently detected in Leyden, and probably elsewhere also; but the periodicity that seems to establish itself in the past six or seven days may be only apparent. In this country the weather has been generally unfavourable for some weeks, and it is possible that astronomers in other parts of the world will be able to fill the gaps between the observed parts of the descending curve (on February 25, March 1, 3, 5, 6, 13, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27).
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EASTON, C. The New Star in Perseus. Nature 63, 540 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063540a0
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