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miles from the line, or course of the meteor as above noticed, it would 
make it about thirty-two miles high. 
Again admitting that a meteor when seen by Prof. Harper, was fifty 
miles northeast of his point of observation, and 35° above the horizon, it 
must have been about peo miles s high. Taking then the course of 
the meteor as indicated by . Harper, as a base line, we may safe] 
conclude that it was at least thirty miles high when it first became visible, 
As to its distance from the earth at the time of the explosion, I have no 
data to found a oe upon. Prof. Harper however, says, “it could 
not have been much above the clouds.” 
to where ‘this meteorite found a resting place on Terra Firma, after 
its countless revolutions around it, for centuries past, would be a difficult 
task, unless some one was fortunate enough to have seen or heard it strike 
our globe. 
We might, however, be aided very much in our search for it, if those 
who saw it under favorable circumstances would take the me in which 
they saw it, with a compass, and communicate the same to hr 
at Oxford, Castes with the altitude above the horizon in which ‘they sa 
it, and as near as possible the time that seo vened between its first ped 
pearance and the rumbling noise that followed. The writer of this arti- 
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proper to communicate to him, agg ing the meteor under considera- 
Be Columiais 5 (Mise) Democr 
Columbus, _— 6 a 1856. 
tion at Albany, that a has meter filled with sulphuric acid had been 
made for the Smithsonian Institution. The objection from its affinity fc for 
i. ometric pen s been named Kon wy Mr. N. A. 
escription of the species b Mr. Pratt will appear in our ne 
5. British ‘hai The Twenty ith medline of the “pritish As- 
Sociation was held this year, at Cheltenham, commencing with August 
6th. The presidential address at its opening was delivered by Professor 
Daubeny, President of the meeting. 
merican Geological History.—In connection with the article, page 
335, it should have sd stated that the paper was read at the Meeting of 
ft American Association at Albany in August last. 
1. Oprrvany.—Rev. Dr. Buckland.—Few men have filled a wider space 
in public mailer for the = twenty-five years than Dr. Buckland. His 
name is intimately associated in the popular mind of this —— with the 
Progress of geology. He may not have possessed the natur ag 
ments or the ——— nea of many of his ania aba 
he ss of spirit, an indomitable energy of purpose, a 
- Seniality of a Sy ‘whial rendered him, even amongst men remarkable 
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