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I'd suggest, to start with, that we'd put ourselves in the place of 

 deep-sea fishes: 



How would they account for the fall of animal-matter from 

 above? 



They wouldn't try 



Or it's easy enough to think of most of us as deep-sea fishes of 

 a kind. 



Jour. Franklin Inst., 90-11: 



That, upon the i4th of February, 1870, there fell, at Genoa, 

 Italy, according to Director Boccardo, of the Technical Institute of 

 Genoa, and Prof. Castellani, a yellow substance. But the micro- 

 scope revealed numerous globules of cobalt blue, also corpuscles of 

 a pearly color that resembled starch. See Nature, 2-166. 



Comptes Rendus, 56-972: 



M. Bouis says of a substance, reddish varying to yellowish, that 

 fell enormously and successively, or upon April 30, May i and May 

 2, in France and Spain, that it carbonized and spread the odor of 

 charred animal matter that it was not pollen that in alcohol it 

 left a residue of resinous matter. 



Hundreds of thousands of tons of this matter must have fallen. 



"Odor of charred animal matter." 



Or an aerial battle that occurred in inter-planetary space several 

 hundred years ago effect of time in making diverse remains uni- 

 form in appearance 



It's all very absurd because, even though we are told of a pro- 

 digious quantity of animal matter that fell from the sky three 

 days France and Spain we're not ready yet: that's all. M. Bouis 

 says that this substance was not pollen; the vastness of the fall 

 makes acceptable that it was not pollen; still, the resinous residue 

 does suggest pollen of pine trees. We shall hear a great deal of a 

 substance with a resinous residue that has fallen from the sky: 

 finally we shall divorce it from all suggestion of pollen. 



Blackwood's Magazine, 3-338: 



A yellow powder that fell at Gerace, Calabria, March 14, 1813. 

 Some of this substance was collected by Sig. Simenini, Professor of 

 Chemistry, at Naples. It had an earthy, insipid taste, and is des- 

 cribed as "unctuous." When heated, this matter turned brown, 

 then black, then red. According to the Annals of Philosophy, 

 11-466, one of the components was a greenish-yellow substance, 

 which, when dried, was found to be resinous. 



But concomitants of this fall: 



