376 Miscellanies. 



The titles of the works noticed are given in the most complete 

 manner, always accompanied by dates and a statement of the size 

 and number of volumes. 



The original article has been extended nearly one third by its 

 German translator, C. T. Beilschmied, who has made additions to 

 many of the original notices, and introduced abstracts of a large num- 

 ber of omitted works, and consequently in the same or a greater ra- 

 tio, has increased its original value. It is now contained in a rather 

 closely printed octavo volume of 186 pages. To the botanists of 

 America, who are so far distant from the great European scene of 

 botanical investigation, and to whom all the various periodicals of 

 that continent are not accessible, a work of this kind must be inval- 

 uable. 



By a letter from Mr. Beilschmied dated July 11th, 1835, to the 

 editor of this Journal, it appears that he has translated the corres- 

 ponding articles for the years 1829, '30, '31. The translation of 

 that for '28 was soon to be ready for the press, and the same for '33 

 was shortly to be issued. The Swedish Report for '34 had not 

 been received, but was expected in October or November. He 

 writes also, that the numbers of this work, as published, may be ob- 

 tained by writing to Mr. Hunnemann, Frith St., Soho, London, or 

 to any professor or bookseller in Germany. 



23. On the cause of the Meteors of November 13th, 1833 ; by 

 Denison Olmsteb, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philoso- 

 phy in Yale College. 



The " Explanation," which I ventured to propose, of the mete-' 

 oric phenomenon of November 13th, 1833, in the twenty sixth vol- 

 ume of this Journal, has occasioned various strictures, both at home 

 and abroad, of which, from respect to the writers, as well as from a 

 due regard to public opinion, it may seem incumbent on me to take 

 some notice. Learning, however, that the current number of this 

 Journal is pressed with communications, I can for the present only 

 ask space sufficient to correct certain erroneous impressions, which 

 appear to prevail respecting my " Theory of Shooting Stars."* 



The leading conclusions to which I was led, after an extensive in- 

 duction of facts, were the following. 



* See especially, the remarks by Mr. J. Espy in the Franklin Journal, Vol. xv, 

 and of the Rev. W. B. Clark, in Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, Vols, 

 vn. and viii. . , 



