act and ample information, as far as attainable, relative to the meteoric 
nomena in North America for the years 1719) 1721, 1724, 1726, 
1731, 1733, 1738, 1749, 1763, 1764, 1766, 1769, 1776. 
_ If it should be in the power of any person to furnish the information 
to M. Morin, either through this Journal or the mail, he will promote 
the common cause. His address is Vesoul, France, or care of M. Ca- 
say Jeewry, Bookseller, Quai des Augustins, No. 111. 
9. Fall of a Meteoric Stone at Griineberg in Silesia.—On the 22d 
of March, 1841, at 34 P. M., the inhabitants of Heinrichau, who were 
abroad in the fields, heard three heavy reports like thunder-claps in the 
air, and soon after, a whizzing noise which ended ina sound like that of 
a heavy body falling to the ground. The sky at the time was almost 
wholly clear. Some persons went in the direction from which the sound 
came, and after proceeding about one hundred and fifty paces, found a 
fresh hole in the earth, at the bottom of which, about half a foot below 
the surface, they found the stone which had just fallen. The stone 
(which is of the form of a four-sided pyramid) is evidently a fragment 
of a larger one which burst in the air; three of its sides are broken, the 
fourth is covered with the thin black crust peculiar to meteorites. It 
weighs two pounds four ounces. A fuller account of the occurrence, 
and of a chemical examination of the meteorite by Weimann, will be 
given hereafter.—Poggendorff’s Annalen, Mch. 1841. 
10. Meteorite in France.—Galignani’s Messenger mentions that at a 
late session of the French Academy, a communication was received 
from M. Delavaux, stating that on the 12th of June, (1841,) between 
One and two o’clock in the afternoon, the sky being without a cloud, an 
explosion was heard at Chateau Renard, in the department of Loiret, 
louder than several pieces of artillery firing together. He suspected 
that this must have proceeded from an aérolite; and on going to the 
spot where the noise had been loudest, found there the marks where the 
aérolite had struck the earth, as well as several fragments of such a 
body, lying about. Most of these fragments were small, but one 
weighed thirty pounds, and another six pounds.—New York Observer, 
Aug. 14, 1841. 
11. Another Meteorite in France.-—A meteor of unusual size, being, 
according to some accounts, as big as a tun, fell near Bethune, (N. lat. 
S04", E. lon. 24°,) in the Pas de Calais, France, making a rushing noise 
like the passage of a hurricane.—Ib., Nov. 13, 1841. 
oon Remarks and suggestions with regard to the proper construction 
and use of apparatus for solidifying carbonic acid ; by J. Jounsron, 
