432 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
{26.) On the Nephila plumipes or silk spider of South Carolina, by 
Dr. Burt G. Wiper. 
Prof. J. P. Lestey read a biographical notice of the late Prof. Edward 
teorite from Anyahinya N.W. of Hungary.” 
The luminous meteor was first observed in the neighborhood of Kas- 
chan, and was seen to proceed in an eastern direction. The people nearer 4 
to the east say that there was a violent detonation, accompanied by a | 
small cloud, and by the fall of several pieces of stone. A Jew, not far 
must be veri 
e Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Pest has taken proper meas- 
ures in order to save a part of the fallen pieces for the interest of science, 
and it has become, through the codperation of disinterested and zealous 
persons, the proprietor of nearly half of them. 1t has been determined 
to send some of them to different scientific institutions in Europe and in 
the United States, and thus also to the mineralogical department entrusted 
to yourcare. I have the honor to announce to you, that a piece in a 
a York. 
July number of this Journal, the destruction by fire of the building of the 
< are informed that, al- 
and others) was preserved intact. So also was its Library, comprising 
the Transacti i 
fire,—and by the kindness of the Directors of the Mercantile Lib 
Association, had been permitted to occupy a place upon its shelves. 
