422 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Sage I received the statements with a measure of incredulity. 
ore than three weeks elapsed before I again heard of our New 
Haven colony of Siredons, and I was not a little interested to 
earn, on my return here, that nearly the whole number 1 
ready undergone the transformation into Amélystoma., 
now, therefore, in the case of two different colonies of Sire- 
dons from the same locality, placed under very unlike conditions of 
elevation above the sea, but otherwise similarly situated, that 
a ndergone the same transformations. We cannot therefore 
avoid the conclusion that Siredon is a stage in the development of 
Amblystoma. 
New Haven, Nov. 2d, 1868. 
IV. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
western coast from New Granada to Chili was shaken, and cities 
and towns in great numbers were suddenly laid in ruins, either by 
the violence of the shocks, or by the subsequent influx of the se, 
or by both. The loss of life is but imperfectly known, the estimates 
ranging from 30 to 60 thousand and upwards; some statements 
making it over 40,000 in Ecuador alone, where it was Lage 
ally greatest on account of the first shocks occurring In the d m4 
of night, while in other regions they took place for the most p4 
in the daytime. ak 
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p, M., and were felt throughout the coast provinces of Peru “s 
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habitants, situated but 14 miles from the lofty peoneet ailt of 
“Misti,” was almost totally destroyed. Though solidly ple, nor 
stone, not a church is left standing, not a house 1s arte of the 
scarcely one stone left upon another. Some two hundr 
inhabitants eer the rest having had time to C8 adalating 
At this place the earthquake commenced with a2 “keep his 
movement, and as the shocks culminated no one could 2e8, apd 
feet; the houses rocked like ships in the trough of the 
