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teeth. The bones of several wolves, of the same size as those 

 of the existing species. The whole of these remains have been 

 deposited in The Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, by 



Sir E. Home. 



Some further particulars of the quarry and caves, by Mr. 

 Whidbey, were appended to Mr. Cliffs paper. Mr. W. stated, 

 that no more bones were likely to be discovered ; for the rock 

 containing the caves was very nearly worked out; and he 

 expressed his opinion, that no communication had existed 

 between the caves and the surface of the country since the 



Feb. 13.— A Letter to the President from T. Young, MD. 

 Foreign Secretary to the Society, was read : it related to Mr. 

 Rumker's rediscovery of Prof. Encker's little triennial comet, 

 near the place which the Professor had assigned to it by com- 

 pution. Mr. Rumker first observed it on the 2d of June last, 

 and it continued visible until the 23d, when it was lost m the 

 lio-ht of the moon, and it could not afterwards be discovered. 



At this meeting, also, part of a paper by Mr. Goldingham was 

 read, relating to Experiments on the Velocity of Sound, made at 

 Madras. 



Article XV. 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, AND NOTICES OF SUBJECTS 

 CONNECTED WITH SCIENCE. 



I. Splendid Meteor seen on Oct. 28, 1822. By Mr. Davenport. 

 (To the Editor of the Annals of Philosophy.) 

 5.j£ London, Jan, 18, 1823. 



Will you allow me room in your publication to inquire whether any 

 of your correspondents witnessed an extraordinarily fine meteor that 

 appeared on the 28th of last October ? _ 



I was travelling northward on the Hastings' road, and going slowly 



up Silver Hill, which is about 48 miles south-east of London, byroad 



measurement, at about half-past five on the above-mentioned day, the 



sky being clear, the moon shining bright, and nearly full, the sun 



below the horizon, but the twilight still strong ; I saw on a sudden in 



the sky about north-east, a luminous ball, of full one-third the apparent 



diameter of the full moon, giving a remarkably bright and white light. 



Its height above the horizon I consider to have been about 22 ; but 



bein- myself on a steep ascent, 1 could less easily judge of this. It 



passed towards the west in a horizontal direction, and the line ot its 



[notion, while I saw it, subtending an angle of above 20° during about 



ei-ht seconds of time. Unfortunately, it passed behind a loaded 



waggon ; but as I pushed on to regain the view of it, I thought (but 



was not certain) that I saw a faint remainder of it for an instant. 



' If this meteor should have been observed from any distant place, so 



