280 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
10°25.—E. and W. the streamers incline toward the horizon, and as- 
sume the deepest red hue, while in the N. the color is much aler. 
1861, March 9, 8:20 p.m——The dark rh has sic. et vanished 
and a semicircle of streamers has taken its pla ey reach as high a 
the pole-star, and assume a red hue above an altitude of 25°. 
beautiful color is at both the eastern and western extremities. 
Observation made on Durham Terrace, Quebec, Aug. 7, 1862, in 
bright moonlight. Yellow streamers rose from N.E. to N. W., Ase base 
being at an altitude of 25°-28° and the tops reaching the zen 
These streamers appeared stationary, but the intensity of the light moved 
saa through theft feet from E. to W. and ahr dec flo — 
upward along the streame. (Same observation at 8°10 
on St. Lawrence river, near Trojis-Riviéres, moon alla very brightly, 
Streamers of yellow hue. 
1862, Oct. 3. —Fall moonlight and display rather indistinct on accou 
of it. I noticed the sky to turn purple in the E, at a low altitude, ie 
at the beginning of the aurora. 
Feb. 20.—Near the moon there was a patch of pale carmine, of alter- 
nately increasing aud decreasing intensity. 
In general, hav e never seen a single streamer that was not Baal hens 
certain altitude. At the moment of issuing, the beam is white a 
brightest at its base; as it increases in size, it generally attains a motion 
along the horizon to the west, and also the intensity decreases below and 
appears greatest in the middle of the beam. When the beam has 
reached its most westerly shee then the base vanishes and the top 
appears brightest, the stream pears as an isolated a ter of more or 
less baat light of varying inte, until it begins to 
of 
purple also 
T have also noticed that the condition of the atmosphere has great in- 
fluence on the color of auroral light. By hazy weather streamers ap- 
pear red, nearer the horizon than by a clear transparent sky. 
{V. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1. ee of a Meteoric Iron from Colorado ; by Dr. C. T. Jackson. 
a letter to one of the anes dated Boston, Nov. 10, 1866.)—I re 
aired last Tuesday, Nov. 6th, iece of meteoric iron from Rev. 
ompson, who brought it Son roti and oe had negotiated - for 
the lade mass with the intention esenting 
agency of a friend in Denver City has secured the ori riginal mass, said to 
be two feet in diameter, for his eabinet. It appears from Mr. Shepard’s 
letter to me that it is the same mass that is pas seen in the last (Sept. 
No. of your Journal, page 250. I made the chemical analysis of it be- 
fore being aware it was the — meteorite weg and since no prev 
