Hagen.j 434 [March 25, 



At Loot'/A-n nnd in Ilohenstcin It took a northerly diroction from one 

 hundred and t'ni to one hnndred and twenty degrees, and lasted 

 about four or five seconds. In Friedriehshof, before burstino-, it 

 appeared of an oval form. Mr. Kayser, astronomer of thci Natural- 

 ists' Society at Danzic, writes among other things in his report: "On 

 the evening of the 30th of January, I was surprised by the ajipearanee 

 of an uncommonly brilliivnt meteor falling in a southeasterly direction 

 towards the east. It seemed to start from fi Orion and run in a direct 

 line with great and uniform brightness as far as Canis Major (SiriusJ, 

 e'ght degrees above the horizon, bursting asunder at this place with a 

 brilliancy still more intense; sjiarks spread themselves in all directions 

 v>-!thout detonation. The whole phenomenon scarcely lasted two sec- 

 onds. At the place where the meteor burst, the azimuth was forty- 

 six degrees eight m nutes from south to east, so there must be a 

 point on the direct line of Neuteich, Christburg, Saalfeld, Neidenburg, 

 etc., in whose zenith this occurred. Consequently portions which 

 have fallen to the earth may be sought for in that direction." 



A meteoric stone of about a foot in diameter was subsequently found 

 in the direction indictited. 



Section of Entomology. March 25, 18G8. 



Mr. F. G. Sanborn in the chair. Twelve members present. 



Dr. II. Hagen exhibited specimens of the stem of the 

 cotton plant, sent to him from Enawa, Chicot Co., Arkansas ; 

 the stem had been longitudinally punctured to receive in its 

 l^ith the eggs of an orthopterous insect ; the eggs were pale 

 yellow, one fifth of an inch long, cylindical, bluntly pointed 

 and a little tapering at the end from which the larva 

 emerges; the other extremity was rounded. The person 

 vrho sent the twigs stated that the eggs were also found in 

 blackberry vines, and were laid by a species of Locustarian 

 resembling the Katy-did; they were doing much damage. 

 He knew of several other species that deposit their eggs in 

 the pith of twigs, and, of one, that inserts them under the 

 scales of a gall, resembling a pine cone, found on the tijjs of 

 twigs of a sjiecies of willow. 



