Miscellaneous Intelligence. 435 
At New Haven, as well as in et other places, there were two 
distinct series of vibrations. Prof, T wining has carefully collected 
information from several persons as to the time of the occurrence 
and duration of the vibrations. The beginning of the first shock 
was at 11" 19" 45° a. uu New Haven mean time. It lasted ten 
seconds, and its individual vibrations were about two-thirds of a 
second i duration, or one and one-third second for a complete 
double vibrati er an interval of five seconds there was 
a second series like the first, lasting eleven seco 
The motion was not a simple oscillation but oni was a rocking 
cogni zing the cause. The direction of the vibration was N.N.E. 
and 8.8, 
At Cam mbridge, Mass., eshte: to Prof. Winlock, the direetion 
was about 10° north of e , as determined by the appearance of 
the sides of a vessel sakenieg mi 
r. Farmer, at Boston, gives 115 25 378 ee the — of the 
ending of the eivestions, Cambridge mean tim woul 
imply that the —_ reached Boston a minute ic thtoedonsthas 
earlier than New Haven. 
At Cleveland, sae several clocks were — by the earth- 
quake, each indicat ing very nearly 10° 45™ a.m. This is approxi- 
mately the instant at which the shock vented New 
It is reported that the shock reached Quebec 30 ieenda before 
it did Montreal, the telegraph operator of the former city being in 
the act of inquiring of the operator in the latter one respecting 
the earthquake when it arrived at Montreal. "These ta seem to 
show that the general progress of the wave was from North to 
Sou 
th. 
Slight vibrations were es as far south as Richmond, Va., and 
ght 
as far west as Dubuque, low H. A. N, 
3. Kansas Natural "Histor Society —(From the Secretary of 
rof. 
J. H. Carruth, of Lawrence. The catalogue contains about 500 
2 sa ge being added by members of the association. “On the 
hes of the Kansas River, as observed at Lows! by Prof. 
