18 Dr. Chladni’s Catalogue of Meteoric Stones, 
Atlantic Ocean, under 45° N. latitude, and 322° 45’ longi- 
tude. 
1721, in the middle of March. What was called rain of 
blood, at Stuttgard, with a meteor. 
1737, 21st May. Fall of earth, which was entirely attracted 
by the magnet, on the Adriatic sea, between Monopoli and 
Lissa. —Giov. Jac. Zanichelli, in the sixteenth volume of the 
Opuscoli di Calogera. 
1742. Red rain at San Pies d’Arena, near Genoa. 
1755, in October and November. In a great many places 
at a great distance from one another, a fall of red and black 
dust, with or without rain. 
1762, in October. At Detroit in North America, an ex- 
traordinary darkness from before daybreak till four o’clock in 
the afternoon, with rain containing sulphur and a black sub- 
stance.—Phil. Trans. vol. lili. p. 549. 
1763, 9th October. Red rain in the duchy of Cleves, and 
near Utrecht. 
1763, and likewise 1765, 14th January. Red rain in Picardy. 
1781, 24th April. In the Campagna di Noto, in Sicily, a 
whitish dust, which was not volcanic. 
* 1796, 8th March. With an exploding fire-ball seen in a 
great part of North Germany, an adhesive gummy mass, in 
Upper Lusatia, not far from Bauzen. 
Without being able to fix the time. Near Crefeld, a jelly- 
like substance, after the fall of a mass of fire. 
1803, from the 5th to the 6th of March. In Italy, red dust 
that was not volcanic, partly with rain or snow, and partly 
without, coming from the south-east, and exciting great terror. 
1809. Red rain in the Venetian territory. 
1810, 17th January. Near Piacenza, red snow, with light- 
ning and thunder-claps (probably a fiery meteor exploding). 
-1811, in July. Near Heidelberg, fall ofa slimy substance with 
an exploding fire-ball.—Gilbert’s Annals, vol. Ixvi. p. 329. 
1813, 13th and 14th March. In Calabria, Tuscany, and 
Friuli, a great fall of red dust and red snow, with much noise, 
attended by fiery meteors and the fall of stones, near Cutro 
in Calabria. The component parts of this dust were nearly 
the same as in the meteoric stones that do not contain nickel. 
1814, 3rd and 4th July. A great fall of black dust with 
appearances of fire, in Canada, near the mouth of the river 
St. Laurence. The event is very similar to that of the year 
472. 
1814, in the night between the 27th and the 28th October. 
In valley of Oneglia in the Genoese territory, a rain of red 
earth. 
1814, 
