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Essex, it is satisfactory to find his own view upon this important subject, 

 so strongly supporting the one above quoted. Mr. Brown's collection of 

 mammalian remains, promises, ere long, to be on a par with that of Miss 

 Gurney, of Northrepps, Cromer, or that of Mr. Gibson, of Mile End ; and 

 it should be visited by every naturalist interested in the fossil productions 

 of this island. We have in preparation some remarks upon the Geological 

 features of the line of coast extending from Southend to Harwich, in the 

 course of which we shall bring forward all the facts we can, bearing upon 

 the relation either actual or hypothetical, which the marine and fresh-water 

 deposits of this district have to each other. — Ed.] 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, 

 CORRESPONDENCE, &c. ^ 



Admiralty Office, Somerset House, 

 March 21, 1840. 

 Sir, 



As you have published in a former volume of 

 your Magazine, a letter addressed to me by my brother, Mr. 

 George Thompson, of Cape Town, accompanying a meteor- 

 olite, of the fall of which he was an eye-witness, the follow- 

 ing further particulars relating to this occurrence, may be 

 thought by you of sufficient interest to lay before the public. 

 They are taken from a letter sent by Mr. Maclear, of the 

 Royal Observatory, Cape Town, to the ' South African Com- 

 mercial Advertiser,' of December 11, 1839. 

 I remain, Sir, 



Your's &c., 



ROBERT THOMPSON. 

 Editor 'Mag. Nat. Hist.' 



"The first account of the Meteor was brought to Cape Town by the 

 Hon. Judge Meiizies and Mr. George Thompson, who were travelling 

 together from the Frontier. I called upon these gentlemen, and ob- 

 tained afterwards a written statement from them, by which it appears 

 the Judge's cavalcade was out-spanned on the Blood River on the 

 morning of the 13th of October; (this River falls into the Gouritz 

 Riv6r). The spot is sixteen hours, or about 90 miles, at their rate of 

 travelling, eastward of the Cold Bokkeveld. Mr. Thompson states, 

 "At about nine o'clock on the morning of the 13th of October, the 

 meteor appeared, to the best of my judgment, to approach from the 

 west, with great velocity, and precisely similar to a Congreve rocket 



1 Under the head of Scientific Intelligence, Correspondence, &c., we 

 propose devoting in future numbers, a chapter to Proceedings of Societies, 

 Extracts; and communications of a miscellaneous nature. 



