440 Scientific Intelligence. 
METEoROLOGY.— 
4, Wotices of Meteoric Masses; by Director spre ten ay we 
give additional abstracts of Director Haidinger’s recent 
oric subjects and intend to publish in the January number of this Journal 
a more complete account on the nature of meteorites by the same author. 
The following additions and explanations to the abstracts already pub- 
lished in this volume, p. 135, are given in a letter of Director Haidinger 
to Dr. Genth, dated Dornbach, near Vienna, July 31st, 1861. 
“The stone of rere [(5) page 143], is no other than that of the fall at Quenggouk, 
near Bassein in Pegu, on December 27th, 1857, page it My excellent friend, Mr. 
Oldham, Su AS et a of the Geological Survey of India, sent the first s eci- 
men with only the locality, Pegu, because at that Lins he had not yet ese ibe? the 
more accurate notices respecting the fall. But I was not willing to keep back the 
ear m gue p! 
tional notices I corrected my first Aosta statement in the memoir ‘on the 
a. 
a I had inferred from Mr. Bidh via nora t the speci ie sent to Us, 
weighing 1 ib $ loths, was one of the aerolites, ian ee just in the condition in 
which ah had aie This Faye ag ae was only partially bets dover, But it now ap- 
taken in this, as a later communication I peak that Soma 
rt of the e ae 
—read July 5th, 1860, If, Einige neuere Nachrichten iiber Meteoriten, D f 
die von Bokkeveld, New Concord, Trenzano, &c., particularly as related "i “ta 0 
ha 
Trenzano, page 570, note. If an aerolite vaneead ap- 
pen to burst at the point C, the end of its cosmic repel ee 
course, it may indeed have a thin crust formed in the ~ <3) 
a tree 
teor et a rts 
single point only, but with several fits or starts as it were and with several repo 
a é . ps a at B, before 
larly also a eufficien t degree of aed pitle, already neat 
Ise. - 
With i the Kindest sigabtl and many thanks again, ever most truly yours, 
Wm. Harnincre. ae 
P. S.—I must still add another pee relative to the movement of t £ 
meteor. At first it wea ue “hr e clea as whare the starlike peared 
ance scatantell I mean in what Ly Ary ‘the ae t 
in E.N.E. first and then had gone down aed Hitielaame it must have first com q had 
the direction W.S.W.! Now I wrote span re to Mr. Oldham on the subject gerne: 
from him the decided reply that the meteor, when seen from the steam-frigate he Bast: 
ramis, was moving, as nearly as could be remembered, from W.N.W. to ¢ 
ward. This would give a course much less violently curved and crooke addi 
deed peal ape more natural and probable. Mr. Oldham intended to have some © 
tional questions put in order to ascertain the position s still more exactly if Pe 
This is another very great desideratum in the history of meteorites, the her 
which quarter of cosmic space they come from, the motion of each of the me 
