133 REPORT — 1866. 



■n-arm, AVeiglit 4 lbs. 14 ozs. ; specific gravity 3-07 to 3-57 in different 

 parts of the stone, which has the form of a three-sided pyramid ; the base 

 fr-eshly broken ; the faces vitrified, and separated from each other by sharp 

 edges of the crust as distinctly as if ruled v.'ith a ruler. Of the earthy portion of 

 the meteorite, that which is soluble in muriatic acid is nearly pure olivine ; 

 the insoluble portion is a higlily siliceous mineral. The proportions arc — 



Nickel-iron (Chladnite) 20-GO (Fe 19-57; Ni 1-03) 



Protosidphuret of iron (Troilite) . . 4-05 



Chrome iron ore 1"50 



Mineral soluble in muriatic acid . . 33-08 (FeO 5-89 ; MgO 14-81) 



Mineral insoluble in muriatic acid . . 40-77 



100-00 



(4.) 1865, Aug-ust 20th, 1'' 30" p.m. Erinpoorah, India, 

 (Extract from an Agra newspaper.) 

 I send you the foUomng account of an aerolite, together with a photo- 

 graph of the same, kindly taken by Dr. Eddomes, of the Erinpoorah Irregular 

 Force, On Sunday, August 20th, 1865, about l*" 30"" p.m., a loud report was 

 heard at Erinpoorah, as if a heavy gun had been fired in the cantonment. A 

 child in the line caUed out " look, look, there is a lota* flpng over." At the 

 same time a similar report was heard at 8aro\\'li, twenty-four miles south of 

 Erinpoorah, and a borah then saw what he took for a baU of fire pass over 

 his head. The same loud noise was heard at the same time in Aboo, distant 

 fifty- four miles south of Erinpoorah ; and there it was followed by a second 

 report, or, as is more likely, a loud reverberation of the first. Some men were 

 digging a tank at the time near the village of BheenwaU in Marwar, about 

 thirty-eight miles from Aboo, when they were suddenly alarmed by a loud 

 rusliing noise and a ball of fire near them, throwing up the earth like a shell. 

 Of course they aU bolted, but, finding that nothing further occurred, retm-ned 

 to the spot, wlicre from a hole three or four feet deep they dug out this aero- 

 lite : weight 3:j lbs. The appearance of this stone exactly corresponds with 

 the account given of Aerolites in Brandt's Dictionary of Science. 



(5.) 1865, August 25th. Shergotty, India. 

 (Extract from Calcutta Gazette.) 



A stone fell from the heavens accompanied by a very loud report, and 

 buried itself in the earth knee-deep. At the time, the sky was cloudy and 

 the air calm, no rain. The stone has been forwarded by the Government to 

 the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



(6.) 1865, August 25th. ll*- 30™ a.m. Aumale, Algeria, 

 (Comptcs Kendus, 1866, January Sth, vol. Ixii.) 

 A meteorite fell near the small stream Oued Soufflat, thirty-two miles 

 north of the town of Aumale, an explosion like the roar of artillei-y first 

 proceeding from a cloud in the air. The stone then fell, penetrating in fallow 

 land 8 inches, and burying itself 12 inches deeper in hard calcareous earth, 

 where it remained too hot to be extricated by the hand. Its figure when dug 

 oiit was a four-sided pyramid, 14 inches high, truncated at the top ; the base 

 8 inches by 6 inches, the . upper face 4 inches square. It weighed about 

 50 lb, A second of the same size fell at a place about twelve miles N. by 



* A round vessel used in India to hold or carry water. 



