CATALOGUE. — METEOROLOGY, FALLEN METEORS. 



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A meteor seen at once in Cumana and in 



Gernumy. Gilb. XV. 109. 

 Account of a meteor seen 13 Nov. 1803. 



Nich. VI. '279. 



To me this meteor appeared smaller than is icpresented in 

 most of the accounts of it. 



Faieyon a meteor, 13 Nov. Nich. VII. 66. 

 Firmiiigcr on a meteor. Pli. M. XVII. 279- 



With a good figure. 



Prevost on a meteor. To be published, S. E. 



Meteors which have fallen to the 

 Ground. 



Barham on a fiery meteor in Jamaica. Ph. 



tr. 1718. XXX. 837. 



It struck i[itc the earth and made several deep holes. 



Halley's conjectures. Ph. tr. 1719. XXX. 



n. 360. 

 Wasse on the effects of lightning. Ph. tr. 



1725. XXXiH.367. 



At Mixburg in Northamptonshire, a fire ball was seen to 

 burst, and two holes were made about a yard deep and five 

 inches in diameter, in a gravelly soil : an iron ball shot per- 

 pendicularly from a mortar did not make a greater impres- 

 sion. Mr. Wasse's nephew searched ihe holts, and it) one 

 he found avcry hard glazed slone, ten inches long, six wide, 

 and four thick, cracked into two pieces : a man was killed 

 by what is called the lightning; he was much wounded, 

 with some appearance of electric effects. 



Cook on a ball of sulfur supijosed to be gene- 

 rated in the air. Ph. tr. 1738. XL. 4'27. 



It was found in a meadow after thunder ; it was covered 

 ■with crystals. 



Falconet on the boetilia. Mimoires de I'Aca- 

 d^mie des Inscriptions. 4. Paris. 



Zahn specula physicomathemalicohistorica. 



Gemma fisica soiterranea. 



De Celis on a mass of native iron found in 

 South America. Ph. tr. 1788. 37. 



At Otumpa, in the chaco Guulamba, far from any mines 

 ©r rocks ; weighii>g about 300 quintals : supposed to be of 

 volcanic origin. There was another piece of an iuboiescent 

 form. 



Account of a mass of iron in South Ame^ 

 rica like the Siberian. A. P. 1787. H. 8. 



Nine feet by 6, and 1 foot thick. 



*Chladni on the Siberian iron. Riga, 179'1. 



Ph. M. II. 337. 

 Chladni on meteoric stones. Gilb. XIII. 



350. 

 Chladni's chronology of fallen stones. Gilb. 



XV. 307. 



Agrees with Benzenberg, that shooting stars must be of a 

 different nature, since these sometimes appear to ascend. 



Hamilton. Ph. tr. 1795. 103. 



A shower of stones fell at Sienna 1 8 hours after the erup- 

 tion of Vesuvius. 



King's remarks on stones said to have fallen- 



from the clouds. 4. Lond. 1796. 

 Sottt/ifi/s travels. 



Mentions stones that fell in Portugal, Feb. iJgB. 



Baudin. Ph. M. II. 225. 



*Fulda on fireballs. Ph. M. IH. 66, 171. 



Tata on the shower of stones at Sienna. Gilb. 



VI. 156. 

 Howard on stony and metalline substances 



which are said to have fallen on the earth. 



Ph. ir. 1802. 168. Nich. 8. II.216. Gilb. 



XIII. 291. 

 On stones that have fallen. Gilb. X.502. 

 Grevilleon stones that have fallen in France, 



and a lump of iron that fell in India. Ph. 



tr. 1803. 200. Nich. VI. 187. 

 Izarn Lithologieatmospherique. Paris, 1803.' 



Ace. Gilb. XV. 437. 

 Lalande. Journ. Phys. LV. 451. Gilb. XIIF. 



343. 

 Account of a meteor that fell near the Mis- 

 sissippi. Ph. M. XI. 191. 

 Laplace'.'! conjecture on the lunar origin of 



stones. Zach. Mon. corr. VI. 276. Gilb. 



XIII. 353. 

 Olbers on the fall of stones. Zach. Mon. 



corr. VII. 148. Gilb. XIV. 38. Ph. M. 



XV. 289. 



Had suggested Laplace's idea in 1795. 



