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act and ample information, as far as attainable, relative to the meteoric 

 phenomena in North America for the years 1719, 1721, 1724, 1726, 

 1731, 1733, 1738, 1749, 1763, 1764, 1766, 1769, 1776. 



If it should be in the power of any person to furnish the information 

 to M. Morin, either through this Journal or the mail, he will promote 

 the common cause. His address is Vesoul, France, or care of M. Ca- 

 roliare Jeewry, Bookseller, Quai des Augustins, No. 111. 



9. Fall of a Meteoric Stone at Gruneherg in Silesia. — On the 22d 

 of March, 1841, at 3^ P. M., the inhabitants of Heinrichau, who were 

 abroad in the fields, heard three heavy reports like thunder-claps in the 

 air, and soon after, a whizzing noise which ended in a sound like that of 

 a heavy body falling to the ground. The sky at the time was almost 

 wholly clear. Some persons went in the direction from which the sound 

 came, and after proceeding about one hundred and fifty paces, found a 

 fresh hole in the earth, at the bottom of which, about half a foot below 

 the surface, they found the stone which had just fallen. The stone 

 (which is of the form of a four-sided pyramid) is evidently a fragment 

 of a lai'ger one which burst in the air ; three of its sides are broken, the 

 fourth is covered with the thin black crust peculiar to meteorites. It 

 weighs two pounds four ounces. A fuller account of the occurrence, 

 and of a chemical examination of the meteorite by Weimann, will be 

 given hereafter. — Poggendo7'ff''s Annalen, Mch. 1841. 



10. Meteorite in France. — Galignani's Messenger mentions that at a 

 late session of the French Academy, a communication was received 

 from M. Delavaux, stating that on the 12th of June, (1841,) between 

 one and two o'clock in the afternoon, the sky being without a cloud, an 

 explosion was heard at Chateau Renard, in the department of Loiret, 

 louder than several pieces of artillery firing together. He suspected 

 that this must have proceeded from an aerolite ; and on going to the 

 spot where the noise had been loudest, found there the marks where the 

 aerolite had struck the earth, as well as several fragments of such a 

 body, lying about. Most of these fragments were small, but one 

 weighed thirty pounds, and another six pounds. — New York Observer^ 

 Aug. 14, 1841. 



11. Another Meteorite in France. — A meteor of unusual size, being, 

 according to some accounts, as big as a tun, fell near Bethune, (N. lat. 

 50^°, E. Ion. 2^°,) in the Pas de Calais, France, making a rushing noise 

 like the passage of a hurricane. — Ih., Nov. 13, 1841. 



12. Remarks ajid suggestions with regard to the proper construction 

 and use of apparatus for solidifying carbonic acid ; by J. Johnston, 



