1826.] M. Chladui's New Catalogue of Aerolites. 93 



1560, 24th Dec. — At Lillebonne, a fiery meteor and red rain. 

 Natalis Comes. 



1 1582, 5th July. — At Rockhausen, not far from Erfort, fall of a 

 large quantity of a fibrous substance resembling human 

 hair, at the end of a dreadful tempest, analogous to 

 those produced by earthquakes. Michel Bapst. 



1586, 3d Dec. — At Verden (in Hanover), fall of much red and 

 blackish matter, with lightning and thunder (fiery 

 meteor and detonation). This matter burnt the planks 

 on which it fell. Manuscrit de Salomon^ Senator at 

 Bremen. 



1591. — At Orleans, at the Magdalen, rain of blood. Lemaire 

 (Ln.) 



1618, in Aug. — Fall of stones, a fiery meteor, and rain of blood 

 in Stiria. De Hammer, 



1623, 12th Aug. — At Strasburg. Red rain. Elias Hahrecht, in 

 a memoir printed at Strasburg in 1623. 



1637, 6th Dec—Fall of much black dust in the Gulf of Volo, 

 and in Syria. Fhil, Trans, vol. i. p. 377. 



1638. — Red rain at Tournay. 



1643, Jan. — Rain of blood at Vachingen and at Weinsberg, 

 according to a Manuscript Chronicle , in the town of 

 Heilbronn. 



1645, 23d or 24th Jan.— At Bois le Due. 



1640, 6th Oct. — Red rain at Brussels. Kronland and Wende- 

 linns. 



1652, May. — A viscous mass, after a luminous meteor, between 

 Sienna and Rome. Miscell. Acad. Nat. Curios. ; ann. 

 9, 1690. 



? 1665, 23d March. — Near Laucha, not far from Naumburg, 

 there fell a fibrous substance, like blue silk, in large 

 quantities. J oh. Praetorius. 



1678, 19th March. — Red snow near Genoa. Philos. Transac, 

 1678. 



I686j 31st January, near Rauden, in Courland, and at the same 

 time in Norway and Pomerania. — A large quantity of 

 a membranous substance, friable and blackish, resem- 

 bling half burnt paper. Miscell. Ac. Nat. cur. ann. 7, 

 pro. ann. 1688 in append. (M. the Baron Theodore de 

 Grotthus has analysed a portion of this substance 

 which had been preserved in a cabinet of natural 

 history, and found in it silica, iron, lime, carbon, 

 magnesia, a trace of chromium and sulphur, but no 

 nickel.) 



1689. — Red dust at Venice, &c. Valisnieri. 



1711, 5th and 6th May.— Rain at Orsion, in Sweden. Act, Lit, 

 Suecice, 1731. 



1718,24th March.— Fall of a globe, of fire, in the island of 



