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may do, this meeting as a meeting peculiarly intended to bring the As- 
sociation in contact with the west of England, I find that Cornwall re- 
turns to my thoughts, with all the scientific zeal and intelligence, which 
from my own personal intercourse I know to exist among the miners of 
that county. Perhaps have had very unusual opportunities of becoming 
acquainted with their merits, for in two different years (1826 and 1528) 
in the prosecution of certain subterraneous experiments, undertaken in 
conjunction with the present Astronomer Royal and other persons, I 
lived four months the life of a laboring miner, and learnt how admira- 
ble for skill and conduct is the character of all classes of the mining 
population in that region. If any of my Cornish friends are within 
hearing, I gladly bid them God speed, and claim once more their wel- 
come to the west... And that I may no longer detain you, to all of you, 
gentlemen of the British Association, | bid God speed ; and from all of 
you, gentlemen of Si aastahee and its neighborhood, I seem to hear, Wel- 
come to Frten uth 1” 
1. Observations on the Shooting Stars of August 9 and 10, 1841.— 
From the 8th to the 18th of August, 1841, the sky at this place 
was unfortunately too much overcast to permit any meteoric observa- 
tions. The following statements, although not so full as could be 
wished, show a decided recurrence this year of the meteoric sprinkle 
which has so frequently been noticed about the 10th of August. It 
will be eae that the moon was in her last quarter on the 10th of 
the mon 
aH pale Flor. N. lat. 0° 28’; W. long. 87° 12’. Dr. Joshua 
Huntington, U. 8. N., has communicated to me his observations at this 
season, from which the following is an extract. ‘“ On the night of the 
9th August, I kept, watch for a unusual display of shooting stars. My 
field of vision included about a sixth part of the hemisphere, from 8. E. 
to S. W., to an elevation of 65°, but was partly obscured by a bank of 
cloud. I took my station at midnight, and between that hour and one 
o'clock, saw fourteen of these meteors ; and between one and two 
o'clock, twenty three. Most of them were small, and only five or six left 
luminous They generally described very short ares, and with a 
single exception, had a course towards the S.. W. My position did not 
enable me to determine the radiating point, which must have been 
somewhere inthe N. E. At two A. M., I watched in the north for half 
“an hour, and saw two shooting stars only. Towards three A, M., I 
