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NATURAL HISTORY, 



SEPTEMBER, 183^. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. L On the Meteors seen in America on the Night of Nov* 13. 

 1833. By the Rev. W. B. Clarke, A.M. F.G.S. (A Supple- 

 ment to Mr. Clarke's Essay, No. 3., in p. 289—308., On certain 

 recent Meteoric Phenomena^ Vicissitudes in the Seasons , prevalent 

 Disorders^ <5rc., contemporaneous, and in supposed connection, with 

 Volcanic Emanations.) 



" Quid sit, unde sit, quare sit. . , . .quod ipsum explorare et eruere sine 

 universitatis inquisitione non possumus, cum ita cohaerentia, connexa, 

 concatenata sint." — M. Minutius Felix, xvii. 



In the last number of my remarks on the supposed connec- 

 tion of volcanic and other phenomena (p. 289 — 308.), I have 

 attended to the extraordinary display of meteors on the night 

 of Nov. 13. 1833, as described in Silliman's Journal of Science 

 and Arts, vol. xxv. p. 411. In vol. xxvi. p. 132. of that 

 work, for April, ] 834, are '* Observations thereon, by Denison 

 Olmsted, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy 

 in Yale College." 



Professor Olmsted sets out with quoting previous examples 

 of meteorites seen at various periods. Amongst these, he 

 alludes to several quoted by me, especially the meteors of Nov. 

 19. 1832 *, seen in England ; the matter which fell at Wolo- 

 kolumsk, March, 1832; the meteor of Brunck, Nov. 14. 

 1832; and those seen by Humboldt, Nov. 12. 1794, in Cu^ 

 mana ; and the aerolites of Candahar. Others are,, the fall of 

 red rain in different countries, on Nov. 13. 1755, and in 

 Picardy, Nov. 14. 1765; and a great meteor seen in Ohio, 

 Nov. 1825; and that seen in England, Nov. 13. 1803. 



* By error, the date is before given, by me, Nov. 17. (p. 293.); as i& 

 1728, for 1828 (p. 305.). 

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