138 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Generalizations, including those upon geographical distribution, for 
which a large amount of materia ed, can 
course now be made or presented here, and will properly be considered 
and compared with former deductions after the new species have been 
worked up, and their bearing upon the various groups and subdivisions 
established. 
The whole number of species collected, in all departments, is about 
5300. The number of specimens may be stated approximately as 12,000. 
The species are distributed among the various groups as follows: 
_Mammalia,. : . 81 Naked Gasteropoda, . 180 
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irds, , ; . 175 Testacea, 70 
Reptiles, . : ‘ . 90 Tunicata, . : . 4 
aoe, . ; - 550 Bryozoa, . : ‘ 50 
eee : ‘ . 400 Holothuride, : ae 
Crustacea, . : . 980 Echinide, . i : 66 
Annelides, . . : . 220 Stelleride, . : . 150 
Turbellaria, . ; ; 96 Polypi, . ; . 90 
‘Cephalopoda, 20 sz, 30 
2. On the Meteor of July 8th; by Prof. N.K. Davis, of Howard 
bama.—. e notices of this meteor I have seen 
great apparent density, its sharpness of outline and its considerable eleva- 
tion, deceived me at the ing its di 
impulse was to mount a horse and gallop to the spot indicated by its 
direction; but on changing my position purposely to ascertain, I found 
that it had no sensible parallax which undeceived me. By information 
since received, I find it must have fallen somewhere in Mississippi, at least 
150 miles from this place. course no sound was heard here. The 
fumes were intensely white and dense, reminding me strongly of the fumes 
of chlorid formed when powdered antimony is projected into a jar of chlo- 
rine. The cloud gradually took a zigzag form and the aerial currents 
— slowly dispersed it, though it retained its dense appearance after 1t 
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a product of combustion in the air; but what this product may be, 
its appearance alone I should be at loss to determine. 
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