— 236 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Apizaco.—When the advice reached me, I could only see a 
handsome light, which vanished in the horizon. It may have lasted 
about ten minutes. 
Puebla.—After eight o’clock a fire-ball was seen to start from 
the direction of Popocatepetl, running toward the top of Orizaba 
and leaving in its course a cloud of dense reddish smoke, 
the course of the inflamed body. 
San Andres—The meteor has been observed here, and left a 
line from east to west. : 
Pervote.—At forty minutes past eight o’clock the meteor was 
observed here and lasted four minutes, leaving im its course4 
luminous band. 
phuacan.—At a quarter to nine o’clock the meteor was observed 
here. It moved from west to east, looked like an inflamed cannon 
ow. 
Jalupa.—At forty-five minutes past eight o’clock there was 
noticed here a whitish luminous band only ; but other persons 88¥ 
the meteor itself. / It 
era Cruz.—At nine o’clock the meteor was observed here. a 
moved from west to east, and lasted about a minute. Its wake 
was brilliant and extensive, lasting about five minutes. . 
orty-five minutes elapsed from the moment the meteor Wi 
observed at Mexico, till the moment it made itself visible at Vera 
Cruz, three hundred and twenty kilometers distant. of 
I shall be very glad if this information may serve as a means 
ascertaining at what distance from the earth the meteor occurTe 
and what was the velocity of its motion. 
ation in this catalogue, 146 different meteoric stones i“ : 
meteoric irons. The heaviest specimen of the irons is one a 
Aeriotopas, weighing 438 pounds, and the largest of the stones 
that from N ichi ? 
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ne in the same room, he introduces the name Anéillite for 
