292 Scientific Intelligence. 
other cases are of much less astronomical ve i except those in 
which meteors have appeared in showers or in unusually large numbers. 
The work is one of ies convenience and se value, notwithstand- 
ing some errors and omissions. These are however not more numerous 
than might have been srentere in the first issue, and we have no doubt 
that the author with his well known zeal and thoroughness will a 68 
future erery bbe more complete 
6. PrA cimever: Ueber den Ursprung der Meteorsteine: with 
three tables : Tors the 8d vol. of “ Abhandlungen der Seuckatee ae 
Naturforschenden Gesellschaft,” at Frankfort-on-the-Maine.) Fr k.aM. 
1860. 4to, pp. 144.—The first 45 . of i work are occu p ied with 
rigin. His own conclusion is the untenable one ae meteorites are nat 
ably connected with the active voleanoes of our e 
hree charts accompany the three tables, viz. (1) 0 one of Europe ace | 
the localities, by numbers referring to the extended table, of them 
ites which have fallen in Europe, and showing also the position of rs wd 
tive voleanoes there found ; (2) one indicating in like manner the M eteori¢ 
falls and the active volcanoes of the eastern hemisphere; (3) @ similat 
map of the — hem so Hehe ili = a ark map of the U 
bearing like data. These in teresting maps show that the law of - geo 
graphical distribation of meteorites is a simple one, viz. meteorit 
been found most abundant where intelligent observers: have we 
abundant. 
time and place of fall, if known, some other details, and references = 
work wherein deseribed.. One series is arranged geographically a 
es certain a nd probable, from thie enilient times to the pre cnet Oye 
between the certain sad the doubtful. In his zeal for thorougl 
ness the author has introduced numerous cases from © inese A - 
which may be somewhat uncertain, and begins his list with the cat oa 
the “fire from heaven” which destroyed Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, 
Zeboim. The total number is 
. Of unknown dat 
More or less certain stone-falls, 
“« 
Of known date. 
287 
LET ys “« — iron-falls, rene 
nem doubtful stone-falls, 337 10 
“ “ ood 2 jron-fa il s. 6 
647 138 
Then follows a sa lin, (p.  (p. 134-148, of bolides and probable amie 
and meteoric The work i is well’ arran peerved 
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