9$0 Mr C. G, j:|M'enbcrg'!» Ohurvaiums on tJie 



. y%\r\^l^\fW^ piv^Us, .(brick f?^iV)| . . ,^ ^ ^. ^^j^^ 

 22. — Geocharis niloUca, (cinnabar red.) 



, .♦> ^>m J '(jo u* 



, . To these belong also the matters already mentioned m re- 



gard to red dew and red ram, "^^^^ 



^ p. /fifoocf-jellies are conjectured to be an illusion causea tVy 



• , ^ Palm^lla sanamnea, ^ ^ , ^ 



no3 W>t vuoi. . i .,.> <.A. Aiim 



' 83., By Actinivnyce meteorica rubra. « . i i 



Besides these twenty-three terrestrial substances and organic 

 bodies, there are, indeed, many other masses and bodies remarj^^ 

 able for red colours, and which might produce similar appear- 

 ances ; but here we have only to do with such as have been 

 viewed as meteoric or bloqd masses, or whose dense distribu- 

 tion, together with the invisibility of their form, and the striking 

 red colour, which has power to arrest the attention on survey- 

 ing a district, and assigns a peculiar character to those sub- 

 stances, -vyhich, taken singly, are wholly overlooked, and thus 

 seem of no consequence. Let us keep in mind what are the 

 6o called colourless o^gaiiic meteoric substances ; and whi^h^^r^ 

 as follows^ ; ^^, ^,.;,^. . w.; 



^h^lu^him bm? ,r/i ;}; Vegetable Bodies. 



, il. Actinomyce jHieteorl^ie albi^ (Tremella met) mat^r of pQramon fiilling 

 star. 



2. Nostoc commune, as the jewel of the alchemists. 



3 Spumaria mucilago, or ^Ethalium flavum, which comes within this classf. 

 -0V3r AH the observations that are known to me regarding these botlies, es- 

 hnT\?. •-: pecially the first two, excepting the single one from Italy by Men- 

 del, are very unsatisfactory. 



b. Jnimal Bodies, 

 * Much has I ecn said about infusoria flying about in the atmos- 

 phere ; and the existence of meteoric infusoria, assumed as cre- 

 dible, liad been made the foundation of other hypotheses, but 

 supported by no direct observations. I know only three ob- 

 servers who maintain this opinion. 



Gleichen found infusoria in snow which he meked in his room; 

 and Miiller quotes the representation of Kolpoda pyrum (Glei- 

 chen S. 150, k. m, f. 18-20.) Whether the snow was taken as 

 it fell, or somewl^ere from the ground, is not mentioned, nor 

 whether the vessel and tbe pl)ject glass were - intentionally 



