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(1.) See Mr. Palmer’s experiments, p. 384. 
(2.) Dr. Kirtland, at Poland, Ohio, “ on retiring to ‘rest, a little 
after 10 o’clock, discovered brilliant eden sparks emitted from 
his clothes on any slight motion.” _(Juetter to Professor Silliman.) 
(3.) While riding in ae town of Gedcom, (says a correspondent 
of the New York Daily Advertiser,) in the evening of the 14th inst. 
between 6 and 7 o’clock, the night after the meteoric display, the tips 
of the ears of my horse, for a half an inch in length, became lumin- 
ous, and similar in appearance to phosphorescent bodies. It remain- 
ed for some minutes. 
(4.) No change was noticeable in the magnetic dip, variation or 
intensity. - Gold leaf electrometers were excited by a touch. The 
petals of De Luc’s dry pile was accelerated. (Mr. F. G. Smith, 
mete see p. 376.) 
Remarx.—lIt is very much to be regretted, that so few magnetic 
Ghsorvancrs were made. The writer of this article suggested to sev- 
eral of ee geigaite friends soon after the occurrence, the probability, 
{from the known effect of auroral appearances on the needle,) that 
the dcthioatini of the needle might have been greatly altered dur- 
ing the phenomenon, a remark to which he is inclined to attac 
the more importance, from the following passage in a letter from Dr. 
Aiken of Hisckubore. “Owing to an accident (says Dr. A.) I 
pri furnish you with any precise data in reference to the m 
eedle. I have, however, every reason to believe, but savage it 
sibply as an opinion, that the declination of the needle at this place, 
was much greater during the continuance of the meteoric shower, 
than before or since.’ 
11. AURORAL APPEARANCES.—Phenomena resembling more or less 
the Aurora Borealis, were visible in some places, although in ay 
other places no appearances of the kind were observed. 
A bank of auroral light, resembling day-break, was observed 
at New oo by Mr. Palmer the greater part of the night. See 
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at (2.) “There was a vapor in the atmosphere, visible round the hori- 
zon, which, in the southeast, assumed a very beautiful. appearance 
half an hour before sun rise. (Observer, Boston Centinel 
3 ere were no auroral appearances observed at Halifax, 
Vir. (Richmond Enquirer,) nor at Providence, (Professor Caswell,) 
nor at «eae (F. G. Smith,) nor at Salisbury N.C. (Dr. A. 
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(4. At Dover, (N. H.) there was an appearance of the Aurora 
Borealis; early in the preceding evening, which continued till 4 
o’clock in the morning, when it oo broke out into streams of 
strong light, spreading into columns, changing into a thousand diffe- 
rent shapes, varying their cobard through all the tints of the rain- 
