202 Miscellanies. 



A day or two later, in lat. 10° N., Ion. 2^° W. : 



" Variable winds cool the atmosphere ; numerous falling stars, coming particu- 

 larly from the south, shed a magic light," «&c. — lb. p. 110. 



About the first of July, 1817, when a little south of the equator : 



" Failing stars illumined the night more frequently than in the northern zone, 

 and generally fell towards midnight in the south, and towards morning in the 

 northeast. — lb. p. 118. 



(4.) In an account of the meteoric shower of Nov. 13, 1832, as seen 

 at Brussels, is this remark : — 



" II en est qui ont pretendu se rappeler que les memes signes avoient precede 

 de quelques jours la bataille de Waterloo j" — [June 18, 1815.] Gautier , in Bib . 

 Univ. de Gentve, 51 : 198. 



7. Shooting Stars of August 10, 1841. — A few observations made 

 in this country on the meteors of August 10, 1841, were published at 

 p. 399, of the last volume. The following European observations, 

 communicated to me, with others, by M. Quetelet, agree with those 

 above mentioned, in showing that the meteoric sprinkle of August 10th, 

 did not fail the present year. It will be remembered that after lOh. 

 45m. P. M. on the 10th, the moon, sixteen days old, was above the ho- 

 rizon ; and further, that of the meteors visible at any time, one person 

 cannot detect more than a fourth part. E. C. H. 



1. Ghent, Belgium. Professor Duprez, watching in the S. W. quad- 

 rant, saw alone, during three hours, Jlfty eight shooting stars, as fol- 

 lows : viz. from 9h. 30m. to lOh. six; lOh. to llh. fifteen; llh. to 

 ]2h. twenty four ; 12h. to 12h. 30m. thirteen. Nearly all were very 

 brilliant ; moving from N. E. to S. W. and leaving luminous trains be- 

 hind them. 



2. Parma, Italy. M. Colla, with a friend, observed on the night of 

 Aug. 9, 1841, eighty shooting stars between 8h. 44m. and 2h. 14m. of 

 the next morning ; on the night of the lOth, two hundred and eighty 

 three, as follows : viz. from 8h. 47m. to 8h. 59m. five ; 9h. to 9h. 58m. 

 thirty five; lOh. Im. to lOh. 56m. forty one; llh. Im. to llh. 59m. 

 thirty seven ; Oh. Im. to Oh. 58m. forty four ; Ih. 2m. to Ih. 59m. forty 

 four ; 2h. 2m. to 2h. 58m. forty three ; 3h. 2m. to 3h. 40m. thirty four. 

 On the night of the 11th, he observed eighty two, between 8h. 37m. and 

 midnight. 



8. Meteorology. — In Vol. xl, p. 402, we gave a notice of the labors 

 of M. Morin, of Vesoul in France, relative to a grand generalization of 

 meteorological phenomena and the resulting laws, and added an extract 

 of a letter from M. Morin to the senior editor. 



In a subsequent letter dated Vesoul, (220 miles northeast of Paris,) 

 Oct. 5, 1840, the author earnestly solicits from American sources, ex- 



