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THE america:n monthly. 



[February, 



Vaspouragan, in x\rnienia, a flaming 

 body fell into Lake Van, and the 

 water became the color of blood. 



In 1 219 or 1232 A. D. (the date is 

 uncertain) a red rain fell in Bohemia. 

 At the same time there was a fall of 

 fine sand and a mass like coagulated 

 blood. 



On November 6th, 1548 a. d., in 

 Thuringia, a ball of fii'e fell with 

 great noise, followed by a reddish 

 substance like coagulated blood, which 

 remained covering the ground for a 

 long time. 



In Pomerania, in 1557, there fell 

 large flakes of a substance resemb- 

 ling blood. 



On December 34th. 1560, at Lille- 

 bonne, in Lower Seine, France, a 

 meteor fell, followed by a red rain. 



At the close of a terrible tempest, 

 on Julv ^th, 1582, there fell in Rock- 

 hausen, in Prussia, a quantity of fib- 

 rous matter resembling human hair. 



On December 3d, 1586, there fell in 

 Verden, in Hanover, large quantities 

 of matter, black and red, accompanied 

 by lightning and thunder. 



In August, 1 61 8, a meteor fell in 

 Styria, accompanied by a blood-red 

 rai n . 



In 1638, at Tournay, in Belgium, 

 a red rain fell. 



In January, 1643, a blood-red rain 

 fell in Voehigen and Weinsberg, in 

 the kingdom of Wurtemberg. 



On March 28th, 1663, there fell 

 near Laucha, Prussia, a shower of 

 fibrous substance like blue silk. 



On January 31st, 1663, there fell in 

 Norway a great quantitv of membran- 

 ous substances friable and like half- 

 burnt papers. Baron Gotthaus ana- 

 lyzed a portion of the substance, and 

 found in it silex, iron, lime, carbon, 

 magnesia, a trace of chrome and of 

 sulphur, but not a particle of nickel, 

 which is always present in aerolites. 



On March 24th, 1718, on the Island 

 of Lathy, in India, a ball of fire fell, 

 and after it a gelatinous red substance. 



On October 14th, 1755, a blood-red 

 rain descended at Locarno, Switzer- 

 land. Nine inches of rain fell, and 



it was ascertained that the red matter 

 contained in this shower was an inch 

 deep by actual measurement. The 

 same storm reached Swabia, on the 

 Alps, and there changed into a red- 

 dish snow, which fell to the depth of 

 nine feet. 



In March, 1808. at Corniola, Ger- 

 many, there was a fall of five feet of 

 red snow. 



In 1813, according to Von Hum- 

 boldt, there was a fall of red-colored 

 hail in Palermo. 



The same year, according to the ' 

 same authority, there was a fall of 

 orange-tinted hail in Tuscanv. 



A brick-colored snow fell in Ital\- 

 in 1816. 



On August 13th, 1819. a mass of 

 gelatinous matter fell in Amherst, 

 Mass. 



In 1 841 two blood-red rains are 

 mentioned — one in Massachusetts, the 

 other in Tennessee. 



In 1843 a man named Ingelow and 

 his sons were picking cotton on a 

 plantation in Laurens district, near 

 Eurole river. South Carolina, when 

 out of an almost cloudless sky great 

 particles of red gelatinous matter fell 

 in a shower. 



In 1867 a similar rain fell in Al- 

 bany, and the late lamented Dr. Jacob 

 T. Mosher, of happy memory, made 

 an analysis of it. He found it con- 

 tained germs of marine growth, likely 

 Fuctis platycarpus. 



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Photoiuicrograi)h.v at the Healtli 

 Exhibition.* 



At the same table will be seen a 

 beautiful little aeroscope connected 

 with chronometric clockwork, which 

 causes the rotation of a leading cen- 

 tral screw attached to a frame that 

 carries a piece of glass like an ordi- 

 nary microscope slide, divided by lines 

 into twenty-four hours and one extra. 

 This is smeared with a sterilized vis- 

 cous material and turned face down, 

 so that when the experiment is begun 

 the extra line corresponds with the 



* From the Brit, yoiirii. Phot. 



