240 G. J. Brush on the Alabama Meteorie Stone. 
bergen, which might hereafter serve as base from whence to 
push still farther onward. These considerations constituted 
the ground for the plan of operations for the latter portion of 
the Swedish expedition, and it may now be considered as proved, 
that a ship may, during autumn, reach a latitude considerably 
higher than that which has been attained by most of the sum- 
mer expeditions. Unless this year is to be considered as 
same time convinced ourselves that, even in autumn, farther 
progress is soon rendered impossible ‘by impenetrable masses of 
broken ice. The voyage itself, moreover, at that season of the 
—? in consequence of the cold, the darkness, and the boister- 
us winds, oo b snow-storms that are then prev- 
after having eer the winter at the Seven tleade or at Smith 
Sound—continuing the journey toward the — on sledges 
in the spring. 
- Art. XXV (Eig tee sg from the Sheffield Laboratory of 
Yale College. No. XX1.—On the Meteoric Stone whi cee ell 
eit 5th, 1868, in Frontlin Co., Alabama ; by Gro 
iy a letter addressed to aie editors of this Journal, dated. 
Tuscumbia, Ala., Dec. 22d, 1868, Mr. Benjamin Pybas stated 
that an aerolite weighing 1 1b. 94 oz. had fallen four miles south 
of Frankfort, in Franklin Co., Ale. on the 5th of December. 
seen by the colo phetiuet from a Sen oer a from him in 
March last. 
