282 Scientific Intelligence. 
fer to these leading Barts and to ec arb the views which they 
contained. Therefore I had every reason to be astonished when 
I read, in a recent work on meteorites by M. St sie Meunier,* 
following assertion ;—‘‘ We may observe that a great number 
heise phenomena occurring in the fall of meteorites have 
hit rto remained without explanation. Thus the reason of the 
explosions, and particularly of the repeated explosions, that o 
th rumblings, that of the incandescence, are still absolutely un- 
si I had still more reason to be astonished when I found M. 
Daubrée himself nearly upon the same level in his views respect- 
ing the origin of light, heat, and sound i in the fall of meteorites. 
0 
ose e- 
moir on the Orgue il fallt "We ither M. Daubrée nor M. Meunier 
had refuted or even objected to my views; they had only passed 
m over in silence, doubtless because they had escaped their 
notice, 
But I believe ni am fulfilling a duty to scientific progress if I 
endeavor to place the discr repa ant and even contradictory views 
on these pie seen together, in ate er once more to excite atten- 
tion and recommend them to further study on the part of the 
votaries a natural science; and it was with this view that I pre- 
pared a new memoir, to be laid before our Imperial Academy in 
their approaching period of session, on the light, heat, bow sound 
accompanying the fall of meteorites. I begin with s of the 
Orga put forth = M. Daubrée, as taken from his neil on 
reuei 
having left us some particles, the relbaey of which, in conse 
quence of the explosion, was reduced.’ § M. Daubrée does not 
imit the arrival of groups or swarms of meteorites as been 
asserted. “The seibehanaous meteorites contradict ihe hypothe- 
* Eutde, descriptive i egae et expérimentale sur les Météorites, par M. Stan- 
islas Meunier. Paris, 1857, 
temarquons qu'un grand nombre de golenine Mong offertes hg! Ja chute des 
mnbiboritoy Sont restées jusqu’A pré: sans explication. Ainsi, la cause va 
plosions et brent des explosions multiples celle ra roulements, veelle Gin 
conn 
nt absolume: 
- ate ‘Complement f Obese sur la chute de météorites qui a eu te i: 
Mai 1864 aux environs s d’Orgueil,” Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire 
Naturelle t. iii, pp. 1-19, é- 
“Les mere se passent done — si = jo Jigen pute! de sbandounant 
tie."— Op. cit. p. 
j Comme on I’a dit. 
