146 Scientific Intelligence. 
From 82 to 9b 7 meteors, | From 115 to 125 
8 “ “ 
a“ 10 
“ 10 “ 11 ll “ “ 1 “ 2 - 
At 10™ 5145 after midnight, and also at 11™ 3045, large ae spl : 
meteors, the first from 5° N.E. of Sirius and the second from of the 
same, moved west 60°, in the first instance, and 50° in hel Re "bol 
nearly parallel to the equator, and the last directly across Sirius. 
e durations varied from 05-1 to 15-00, and they average 0*-41 for the 
forty-aine estimated. ie 
At Kenyon College the pight of the 13th—14th was entirely obscured, x 
and that of the 12th-13th partially, There were, however, in 331 mine 
utes after 105 20™ p. m., one hundred and ninety-nine meteors see, via? a 
N.E. 36, N.W. 35, SE. 58, S.W.17, N.1, E. 7, Zenith 43, 8.2 On 
the night Vee ‘(11th-12th), i in 210 minutes, ‘from 11% 29m p. My to i 
about 
NE. 305 aa S.E. 68, S.W. 24, N.3, E. : Zenith 15. The a 
(euives further i inquiry sna Sentnatio‘. Shiny of the bigs a i map ee | 
on the chart, and these vary in are from 2° to 25°. One of the he longest te 
lies in Perseus and remarkably exhibits a hoot aa peti! having its 
termination about at right angles to its beg g. i 
Both of these Reports will be treated ‘ts in detail hereafter, when the : 
entire mass of returns shall-have been collated and discussed. A. OT = 
Vil. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1, Expedition to the Desert of Sahara under Messrs. Martins and ie 
cher von Linth —Through the kindness of a friend we are enabled 10 
give the following information relating to an expedition now in 
from Switzerland to the Sahara desert, under the direction of Mess 
Martins and Escher von Linth. ached - 
The expedition left Switzerland on the 11th of October last and : a 
Algiers on the 18th. From there te, they went to papel 8 and tthe ie 
of mountains to the north of pene 
endless Sahara. The letter observ. 
“They also, like the French soldiéis twenty years ago, and t he he Bom 
Legions seventeen centuries before, could not help crying, ‘the of the < 
sea,’ transported as lage were by the i impression of they ramears 
tableaux. Another selemn moment of their j journey was the : 
the ‘cluse’ of El a where, after a long walk in a most bar te 
esert country, they perceived also, on a sudden, the Oasis of Biska’® 
lineating itself in at most delightful manner with its palm-trees of Sl 
with their gilded fruits. The contrast between the icy solitude ° 
Gothard and the lovely gardens of Lago Maggiore is certainly st!®™ 
