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or a shock Sa ase under the Laurentian of these regions had 
extended itself from them into the Silurian rocks to the south and 
east. If the ptovaiting'i impression stated in the eet that the 
vib a passed from W. to E. or N.W. to S.E,, is — the 
latter would be the more probable supposition. Tt i is, however, 
very difficult to attain to any certainty as to the actual direction 
of the disturbance, and some observers give it as precisely the 
opposite of that above stat 
On the 14th of Moeahens a slight shock was felt at Cornwall, 
Ontario, and on the 15th of November earthquake shocks oc curred 
over a wide area in Kansas, Iowa, Dakota and Nebraska. 
OBITUARY, 
CHARLES ce ee Harrr.—Professor Hartt, according to a 
telegram from Rio Pak died of yellow fever soon after the 
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i o Sxccui, the Astronomer and Director of the Observa- 
tory at the Collegio gf at_ Rome, Italy, died on the 26th of 
February last. Father Secchi, in the years 1848 and 1849, was 
connected with the Observatory of Georgetown none. near 
Washington. In 1850 he returned to Eur ope and entered on hi 
labors at Rome. His papers on astronomical and physical subjects 
are very numerous and of great value. 
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