428 REPORT—1868. 
TABLE (continued). 
Time. Size. | Colour. | Train. Path. pense 
August 10th. | Magni- 
hm s tude. 
0.8 30 {Jupiter .1.)White .......|......0..c..000e From 7 Cassiopeiz to 6 Urse|Train lasted 3 secs. 
[=B. 12585] ajoris. 
OTA STO Aires oes VVIDILG.: cane vol 5. od cacestes ese From E. side of Equuleus to|A double meteor, 
Milky Way. followed instantly 
by another. 
OeU TO) Wat. css. IWIRIGG; So. emallnaskiecdsensasss From @ Draconis to 8 Bootis|Train lasted 2 secs. 
(sky now cloudy). 
0 22 35 From a Draconis to 6B Bootis oe 10 se- 
conds, 
0 29 10 Vertical, from Z Aquile into 
Scutum Sobieski. 
045 0 ‘Below a Lyre to 6 Aquarii. 
Thee 9 N65) 0) In south-west, vertical. 
1 5 50 Through little Bear. 
22 oA pai ist ites peteay WYN fe aca. axe Slight train... From a Cygni, vertically 
into a cloud. 
Observations discontinued in consequence of cloud and extensive ground- 
fog supervening. 
The observations were made conjointly with Mr. Symons; and only the 
larger meteors were recorded. 
Cuartes H, GrirFita. 
Stratfield Turgis, Winchfield, Hants. 
Lat. 51° 20' 23" N., Long. 05 4™ 108 W. 
Preliminary Report on Mineral Veins containing Organic Remains in 
the Carboniferous Limestone. By Cuartes Moors, F.G.S. 
For several years my attention has been directed to the question of Mineral 
Veins—to the interesting fact that in many, if not all instances, they con- 
tain organic remains, by a study of which it is possible not only to arrive at 
the probable age of the veins in their several districts, but also, to some ex- 
tent, the physical conditions associated with them at the time they received 
their contents. 
Thus in the Somersetshire and South-Wales districts, where the mineral 
veins occur in the Carboniferous Limestone, I have already showny that they 
are not older than the age of the Lower Lias. In the case of the Charter- 
house Lead-mine this is especially seen to be the case, as 115 species of 
organic remains of liassic age were obtained from the bottom of this mine, 
a few of them belonging both to land and freshwater genera, associated, as 
might be expected, with others belonging to the Carboniferous Limestone 
itself, within the fissures of which the later material had been deposited. 
* Meteors marked thus, B., are regarded as identical with meteors simultaneously 
observed at Birmingham. See above. 
1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1867, vol, xxiii. p. 492. 
