iga Misceflaneous Intelligence. 



that this work had been executed upon the spot where the 

 traces existed. The presence of man had then preceded tlie 

 formation of this stone, and that very considerably, since he 

 was ah-eady at such a degree of civiHzation that the arts were 

 known to him, and that he wrought the stone, and formed co- 

 lumns out of it. 



3. On Meteorolites, by M. Fleuriau de Bellevue. — A paper, 

 by M . Fleuriau de Bellevue, was read to the Academy of 

 Sciences last year, on meteoric stones, and particularly on 

 those which fell near Jonzac, in the department of Charente. 

 This paper is long, and contains much minute investigation of 

 those appearances, which, accompanying these phenomena, af- 

 ford the only means of ascertaining their real nature. Wc 

 shall, probably, take an opportunity of abstracting and con- 

 densing this paper ; in the mean time the following conclusions 

 are presented as those drawn by M. Bellevue. 



1. The appearances presented by the crust of meteorolites 

 seem to prove that their surface has been fused whilst rapidly 

 traversing the flame of the meteor, and rapidly solidified into a 

 vitreous state on leaving that flame. 



2. They prove that in the first moments the movement of the 

 meteorolites was simple, that is, that they did not turn round 

 on their own axis whilst those two effects took place. 



3. That the impulse each meteorolite has received has almost 

 always been perpendicular to its largest face. 



4. That the largest face is almost always more or less 

 convex. 



5. Our meteorolites (those of Jonzac) offer new proofs of the 

 pre-existence of a solid nucleus to bolides or meteors. 



6. This nucleus could not contain the combustible matter 

 which produces the inflammation of the meteor. 



7. It cannot have suffered fusion during the appearance of 

 the phenomena. 



8. The gaseous matter which surrounds this nucleus is dis- 

 sipated without producing any solid residuum. No trace of 

 this matter appears ever to exist in the crust of the meteoro- 

 lites. 



9. Meteorolites are fragments of those nuclei which have 

 not been altered in their nature, but simply vitrified at their 

 surfaces. 



10. Many of the irregular forms which these fragments 

 present may be referred to determinate geometric forms. 



1 1 . These latter forms are the consequence of the rapid ac- 

 tion of a violent fire, according to a law of the movement of 

 heat in solid bodies, discovered by M. 'Emex.— Journal de Phy- 

 sique, xcii. p. 159. 



4. Skull foundin a Tree— A. very precise description, ac- 



