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attenuated tails, perhaps two lines in length.” In conelu- 
sion he says that he believes “this is the first notice of the 
occurrence of the ‘red snow’ within the territories of the 
United States.” 
In 1865, when in charge of the Microscopie material of 
the State Geological Survey of California, I received from 
Prof. Brewer, a specimen, dried, of “ red snow,” from Lassen’s 
Peak at about 10,500 to 16,000 feet altitude, collected in 
September, 1868. And Prof. Brewer informed me that it 
was found, commonly, on the “perpetual snows of the Sierra 
Nevada. For many years before this I had seen this remark- 
able appearance, not, however, upon snow, but upon the sur- 
face of the water of ditches and marshes all around this city ; 
New York. 
A fall of yellow rain is recorded (Nature, Vol. II. page 
166) as having fallen on the 14th of February, 1870, at 
Géne, Italy, and a chemical analysis of it proved it to consist 
of 
Water 6-490 
Nitrogenous organic substance 6-611 
Sand and clay 65°618 
Oxide of iron 14°692 
Carbonate of lime 8-589 per cent. 
Under the microscope it was seen to be made up of blue 
spherical bodies, and spores of a moss and other vegetable 
substances along with a few Diatomacez. M. Boccardo, who 
examined it, thinks that if he could have seen it when fresh 
that “the microscope would have shown the existence of 
several kinds of infusoria.” He thinks it came from Africa, 
and quotes Maury’s suppositions founded on Ehrenberg’s 
loose observations in confirmation of the-likelihood of its 
having traveled so far. More likely it came from near by, 
as did my New Hampshire specimen, to be mentioned 
presently. 
But, besides these supposed showers of a yellow color, 
which have been ealled “ Sulphur,” and red, which have been 
termed blood, we have records, which appear periodically 
most commonly in our rural papers, of showers of ‘“ honey ”’ 
