We are tempted, however, to extract the following short notice of a remarkable meteor; because it tends to establish the connection so very much wanted between _shooting-stars_ on the one hand, and _meteorites_, or _meteor-stones_, on the other hand. The phenomenon in question had a something of the characteristics of each, but was more of the nature of the latter body, in which case the mere fact of its appearing at the epoch of the shooting-stars, maybe considered in some degree significant of a connection, more especially when confirmed by a second instance in another year; while, moreover, the November period of shooting-stars had not then been suspected; and these two observations not only serve to confirm that period, but also to give the retrogression of the nodes of the orbit, which has been suspected. P. S. _Mr Fallows to the Secretary of the Admiralty._ ROYAL OBSERVATORY, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, _November 9, 1829_. "SIR,--The inclosed document was drawn up at my request, by Captain Ronald. At the moment the first explosion took place (ten in the evening), I was writing in a room adjacent to that of the Transit, and imagined from the loudness of the report that it might be a signal of distress from some vessel in Table Bay. Shortly after, perhaps four or five minutes, for I cannot be certain, having no suspicion of what had been observed in the Transit-room, I heard a second report, but it was somewhat fainter than the former. This phenomenon has been noticed at Simon's Town, Stellenbosch, and beyond Koe-berg.[85]--I have, &c., "FEARON FALLOWS." Footnote 85: _i.e._, 20 miles to the South, 25 to the East, and 15 to the North. (INCLOSURE.) _Captain Ronald to Mr Fallows._ OBSERVATORY, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, _20th October 1829_. "SIR,--As it may not be uninteresting perhaps to make some record of the circumstances attending the appearance of a meteor which was observed last evening, I beg leave to convey to you the following notice: remarking that having seen it only through the open roof of the Observatory, which prevented me from following the direction it took, my report must necessarily be so far incomplete. "At the time of the occurrence of the phenomenon in question, about ten in the evening, I was in the Transit-room, engaged in observing the passage of a star, when a blaze of intensely vivid light was observed a little to the West of North, about the height of the Equator, and which continued for perhaps a couple of seconds.