244 Scientific Intelligence. 
last he found in the sun some re s of great extent remarkable 
for the presence of magnesium, stretching over an arch from 12 to 
168 degrees; and that on the 1 he presented to the Spectro- 
n 
the spectroscope around the whole border, that is, the whole 
chromosphere was invested with vapors of this metal. Under this 
general ebullition, there was naturally an absence of pe ae 
while the flames of the chromosphere were very marked and bril 
liant; and the more brilliant the flames 7 A pap: the amount of 
magnesium indicated.—_L’ Institut, July 10 
e August Meteors were observed, on the night of 9-10, at 
Sheffield Hall, by Prof. C.S. Lyman, aided b y some Aces assistants. 
ales to 103 0 co ti regular watch was kept, but 30 or 40 
were ced. After the numbers were as follows: 
"from 10} to iy o by 6 observers. 
it oe 6 “ 
. > 50, 
6G 114 oe 12, 61, o (a9 
“ 12 “ 19456,% 5 «& 
a. a (most of the time). 
“ 1 * 14, 42, “ 4 «“ 
6c 14 “ 2, 32, “ 2 (74 
“ 9 « 9 4, soa 74 
2 +“ 34, some haze; accurate _— not kept; but 
the number was at about oe same rate. Several were brilliant, 
leave colored trains, At about 8 minutes past 12 one exploded 
with a bright flash in the east. e paths were not mappe “ 
greater. There was much auroral light in the north all night, 
with occasional streamers about midnight. No cloudiness in the 
sky until after 3 o’cl 
Pro fessor R. W. McFarland, of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 
states, in a letter dated Oxford, Aug. 12, cme he observed on the 
morning of the 10th from a quarter before 3 to 5 minutes before 
4, and counted in that time 62 meteors. 
6. On two new p ; by Prof. C. H, F. Prrzrs. (From 4 
letter to one of the Editors, dated Litchfield Observatory of ppt 
ilton College, Clinton, N. Yu ms 17.)—I have obtained the 
