Miscellaneous Intelligei 



chips, sent to Vienna, showed plainly, when siifEci 



db = 3 " 1 " 



ffc = 3 - 11 " 



A part of the mass has been separated and partly worked up. 



In a figure given in H.'s communication the mass is viewed from the 



north ; the surrounding ground has partly been dug up ; its probable 



height is estimated by Dr. Neumayer as not over 4 feet, the neutral place 



towards magnetism being 1 ft. 10 in. below its upper limits, and 2 ft. 1 !"■ 



■'' ' ' ' ■' ■ .1 • ■ Although the upper part is a 



luth pole, numerous subordinate 



given more accurately and com- 



' is from ^<. 



, (60 to 1' 

 of the equator,) the smaller northerly of the larger. The geograpbii^a' 

 position of the smaller mass is 38'* 8' S. lat., and 146° 22' E. of ('reen- 

 wich ; that of the larger, 38° 11' S. lat., and 145° 20' E. of Greenwich. 



(5.) At the same meeting (Nov. lih, 1861,) he mentions a magnificent 

 meteor, observed by many persons in Southern Australia, on March 4::'. 

 1861, at bright daylight, (9^ 38™ 5^, Melbourne mean time,) ot" v 

 Dr. Neumayer made a report to a Melbourne paper, computed iV ■; 

 observations. When first seen it was 50 miles above the ocean, at, l 

 point of the ocean 30 miles from Cape Otway ; it passed throu,^!- 

 zenith ; its diameter has been calculated at about 1,900 feet. From > 

 mayer's continued investigations (during the last 3 years) of shooU' - 

 stars and meteors, it follows that this meteor came from a point ot n'' 

 diation in Perseus ; whilst a meteor of extraordinary size, observoJ -j 

 Melbourne in August, 1858, came from the latter point and m*'^'^;. 

 towards the former, so that both meteors had one and the same pl^ir.e ■■■ 

 motion ; a fact which, if investigations were pursued, might throw joff'- 

 light upon this subject. , ^ 



There are, according to Neumayer, other points of radiation f^y \'-'; 

 southern hemisphere, and the periodical appearance of these c- 1=^' 

 bodies does not coincide with that for the northern ; there is no -\ 

 period, but one in July and one in December. No observations ■■■■ 

 made during the last three years in November, on account of t;. 

 vorable state of the weather. F. A. ' 



