136 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
3. Shooting Stars of August 9-10, 1852. eee E. pe Jonquizres, 
of the ship Ville de Paris, states (in a letter to M. Arago, printed in 
the Comptes Rendus, Sept. 13, 1852,) that on the 9th and 10th 
1852, he was near Cagliari, Sardinia, and observed under favorable 
circumstances the shooting-stars which appeared at that time. The 
sky was clear, and the meteors were very numerous from the end of 
twilight. Between midnight and 4 a. m. of the 10th, the number (seen 
by one observer?) was about sixty-six per hour. The divergence of 
the meteors was quite constant from a point having a right ascens sion of 
24 20" and north declination of sixty degrees. = 
The next evening, (10ih) the meteors appeared less abundant, but 
after a short time the sky became overcast, and farther observation wan 
impossible. 
VI. Miscettangous INTELLIGENCE. 
¥ § hake, of German Naturalists a Wiesbaden ; (Ath., 1852, No. 
1301. )—This Society, the prototype of our British Association, ” 
ist held its twenty-ninth annual este in the flourishing little town 0! 
assau; which was well calculated, as well from the extent of its i 
lic bailing and their adaptation to scientific réunions and social p! 
so from the geological interest and natural beauties of t 
numerous a body of scientific Prac A correspondent, who was 
present, had furnished us with a sum mary, —which, as following close 
on the account of our own British meeting, will BESET Bae ane 
terest for 1 scientific readers, 
and many of the public buildings and private houses were decked out 
with the national flag waving from ye doorways and roo of 
To bea privileged member of t is Association, with “the right 
speaking and voting in the meeti ny: it is necessar er 
some work bearing on natural history, physics, or spayate 3 but to bee 
come a temporary associate, with the right of being present as & pet 
er >r merely at all the scientific meetings, as well as of taking part!) 
ive social réunions, is free to every one on the very mp 
payment of two Prussian dollars equivalent to scarcely six shillings 
of our money. Hence, when the annual meeting takes place in a tow? 
like this, numbers of the middie and upper classes of inhabitanls 7 
gerly join it, as ae as all scientific #strangers who may happe® on 
Brit yucky - The o ahecis of the society, like those of 
» Of the Germans present there were considerably more | 
hundred names wacky known in the records of sciencey Prof: 
+ a the pratense may be named the octogenarian, Von. Mi from 
ytic chemist, Von Carnall tara tv ines; 
Berlin, Prot Haidiogety enna of the | eri : Institut 
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