482. Scientific Intelligence. 
The well-known skill and accuracy of Schmidt and the 
poe of time (14 seconds) during which the object continued in 
the telescopic field, renders this observation peculiarly valuable. 
Dr. Galle considers that his researches into the phenomena pre- 
sented by the meteors which fell at Pultusk on January 30, 1868, 
as a rain of stones, demonstrate that the meteors were separate 
sponding to the law of terrestrial grav Haidinger, from cer- 
hysical etn of fallen i a had already inferred the 
as to form a swarm, r whether, s hortly after entering and durin 
their passage peronek gre air, cay are reduced through the effects 
of heat into smaller fragm: ments, which the more or less freshly 
broken appearance of man fragments, as posse from the 
some recently observed aérolites and fireballs" occurs in his last 
published work on the “ Astronomical Theo "of Meteors,” relat- 
ing to the question of the pomtble identity, or of the separate 
origin of these meteors, and of ordinary shooting-stars or meteor 
showers. Rejecting, on apparently sufficient grounds, as falla- 
cious, the conclusion of Laplace, that if comets, before ente ering 
the sphere of the sun’s attraction, are su posed to o be tra wraeal 
space with various velocities in — meee ee the Lager: 
g the imm 
ori 
ally: journeying in space win nearly the same eoeaieicle and i 
nearl, e direction as the sun, i the Sehiaparelli i regards 
these odie e as the original inmates, or portions of one ot the 
“ star-drifts,” of whose existence very decided proofs have lately 
ee which hyperbolic velocities were credibly 
sited by Schiaparell in is work (translated from the Taian by Dy 
~ ron Bogner), Entwurf einer Astranomischen Theorie der Storuahowpern F 
