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migration from some place external to this earth is suggested, have 

 fallen from the sky. 



That these "migrations" if such can be our acceptance have 

 occurred at a time of hibernation and burial far in the ground of 

 larvae in the northern latitudes of this earth; that there is signifi- 

 cance in recurrence of these falls in the last of January or that we 

 have the square of an incredibility in such a notion as that of selec- 

 tion of larvae by whirlwinds, compounded with selection of the last 

 of January. 



I accept that there are "snow worms" upon this earth whatever 

 their origin may have been. In the Proc. A cad. Nat. Sci. of Phila- 

 delphia, 1899-125, there is a description of yellow worms and black 

 worms that have been found together on glaciers in Alaska. Almost 

 positively were there no other forms of insect-life upon these glaciers, 

 and there was no vegetation to support insect-life, except microscopic 

 organisms. Nevertheless the description of this probably polymor- 

 phic species fits a description of larvae said to have fallen in Switzer- 

 land, and less definitely fits another description. There is no opposi- 

 tion here, if our data of falls are clear. Frogs of every-day ponds 

 look like frogs said to have fallen from the sky except the whitish 

 frogs of Birmingham. However, all falls of larvae have not posi- 

 tively occurred in the last of January: 



London Times, April 14, 1837: 



That, in the parish of Bramford Speke, Devonshire, a large num- 

 ber of black worms, about three-quarters of an inch in length, had 

 fallen in a snow storm. 



In Timb's Year Book, 1877-26, it is said that, in the winter of 

 1876, at Christiania, Norway, worms were found crawling upon the 

 ground. The occurrence is considered a great mystery, because the 

 worms could not have come up from the ground, inasmuch as the 

 ground was frozen at the time, and because they were reported from 

 other places, also, in Norway. 



Immense number of black insects in a snowstorm, in 1827, a * 

 Pakroff, Russia. (Scientific American, 30-193.) 



Fall, with snow, at Orenburg, Russia, Dec. 14, 1830, of a multi- 

 tude of small, black insects, said to have been gnats, but also said 

 to have had flea-like motions. (Amer. Jour. Sci., 1-22-375.) 



Large number of worms found in a snowstorm, upon the surface 

 of snow about four inches thick, near Sangerfield, N. Y., Nov. 18, 

 1850 (Scientific American, 6-96). The writer thinks that the worms 



