a Scientific Intelligence. 
‘From sede! ohliies correspondents I have received descriptions of 
this remarkable aurora, as witnessed in on, parts of our country ; 
and | learn Posi cy she papers that it was seen also in Europe, 
but of its appearance there I have sheets = ieee 
At Machias, in Maine, as | learn from Mr. W. J. Maltby, the exhibi- 
tion was exceedingly 9 sie as here, about 7 0 Ss 
and passing through a similar succession of phenomena. ‘The 
zontal bands of broken Snesiee * at first one, then two, and finally 
long after 11. To other observers at a later period there was an appear- 
ance of shooling stars. lt was so represented in the account of the 
phenomena published in the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. “td 
friend, Professor Dewey, of Rochester gba iversity, was so kind as 
similar origin of the aurora borealis and meteoric showers. I 
efore addressed a letter to the editor of the Republican, but learned 
at the assertion was made on the authority of one of the hands of the 
“office, whose character for veracity might be relied on, yet his want of 
experience in observations of this kind would hardly entitle testi- 
ny to entire confidence unless corroborated by others. ‘The account 
given by the young man was, that “about 3 o’clock in the re 
the corona S. and E. of the cnith shot forth fine meteors.” Professor 
Dewey himself also reports-a witness, a member of the Junior Class of 
the University of Rochester, ‘a careful, discriminating, and compe- 
tent observer,” whose te estimony is as follows: “ He was walking with 
a friend after midnight, i in a northerly direction. His companion asked 
him if he saw that shooting star passing northwards? He replied in 
the affirmative, having his eyes directed upwards, and the meteor hav- 
ing pases wal north “a the zenith. On turning to the varv — 
pre eek aed » Some west, some satehsi and in all ditections 
They — in succession, a minute or two en He is familiar 
marked that there were a great many, and that the show was very 
splendid.—The place of observation was Wyoming 20 or 30 miles 
southwest of Rochester. 
I regret to say that at ‘ie ania hed hebe meteont were 6 observe 
I was in a situation that would have prevented my seein = 
they been visible at this place. At Rushford, in western New "York, 
