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are little known. At this period in 1861, the observations attempted at 
New Haven, were nearly frustrated by clouds. On the morning of the 
8d inst, Isaw but four shooting stars during half an hour ending at 
5* 30, The evening of the 4th was cloudy. On the evening of the 
5th the sky was clear, but the moon four days old was up. From 7» 10m 
to 88 10™ p.m, Messrs, G. W. Biddle, W. W. Johnson, H. W. Thayer 
and myself, stationed together on the S. tower of the Alumni Hall, saw 
only 14 shooting stars, viz, in N.E.4; SE. 1; 8.W.6; N.W. 3; or 
classified by magnitudes of stars, 2 of Ist, 7 of 2d, 5 of 8d and less. 
There was no well marked radiant. Dee. 6th and 7th the sky was over- 
cast morning and evening. After this for several days the moon inter- 
fered in the evening, and clouds in the morning. 
Mr. B. V. Marsh of Philadelphia informs me, that Mr. George Wood, 
while riding from that city to Haverford College, 8 miles west, between 
wout 44 a.m. and daylight of December 12th, observed numerous bril- 
liant shooting stars, not less probably than twenty-five, chiefly in the 
northwest. E. C. Herricx. 
New Haven, Conn., Dec. 18, 1861. 
V. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, 
(1. Letter from our Paris Correspondent.) 
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ory, Professor of Zoology at the Sorbonne, Member of the Imperial Coun- 
cil of Public Instruction, and the principal promoter of the establish- 
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great scientific establishment in which he his whole life. © 
- de Grateloup died at Bordeaux in the month of August, to the 
Steat resret of his numerous friends in the domain of science. He was 
*né of those ardent natures who in the midst of the absorbing duties of 
medical practice found means of advancing by numerous labors his favor- 
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he some Years since proposed to have the engraving done at Paris, 
