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pcared about tweiaty miles above the English Chanucl, lialfway between North 

 Foreland and the opposite coast of France. The distance of this course, 

 about fifty-five or sixty miles from Hawkhurst, Wrotham, and the other 

 places in Kent where the detonation was distinctly heard at an interval of 

 about five minutes after the meteor's disappearance, affords a verification of 

 its correctness, while it is in good agreement with the apparent course of the 

 meteor as observed at Brussels. The direction of the meteor from near t, (in the 

 spear-hand) of Bootes is probably an outlying example of the occurrence of 

 the Eadiant Q,, in Corona, of shooting-stars during the greater part of the 

 months of May and June. 



ISfiO, July 16th, Uh. 35m. p.m., London, Hawklmrst, and Beckenham 

 (see Catalogue). The small parallax indicated by the observations at the 

 two latter places of the point of disappearance of the meteor " near the 

 star e Pegasi " may partly be attributed to the great height of the meteor, 

 which perhaps prevented any sound of its explosion from being heard, and 

 partly to the direction of its apparent path, being at both stations nearly 

 parallel to the straight line joining the two places of observation. The de- 

 scriptions of the meteor's course at London are not sufficiently exact to afford 

 any confirmation of this result. A similar meteor observed nearly at the 

 same hour on the same date, in ISGl, was likewise found to disappear at a 

 great height (sixty-five miles) above the surface of the earth (see Eeport 

 for 1862, p. 77). 



1869, Aiigust 9th, lOh. 59m. p.m., Hawkhurst and Birmingham (see Cata- 

 logue). The resemblance of these meteors, like that of the two meteors 

 almost simultaneously observed on the 10th of December last, is only acci- 

 dental, the apparent paths at the two places not satisfying the necessary 

 conditions of identity, although the two meteors approximate to each other 

 very closely in their remaining features. 



II. AiJROLITES AND LaEGE MeTEORS. 



a. Aerolites. 

 Daniel's Kreil, Grigua Territory, South Africa, March 20th, 1868. 

 The fall of the meteorite was witnessed by a native, who picked it up 

 whilst still warm. The specimen, which Aveighs 2 lbs. 5 oz., was brought to 

 England by a weU-known mineralogist, Mr. J. II. Gregory, and analyzed by 

 Professor Church. In composition it is a meteoric stone, containing much 

 free iron disseminated through its mass, together with some troilite and 

 schreibersitc. The following is Professor Church's analysis of the aerolite : — 



Nickel-iron 29-72 



Troilite G-02 



Schreibersitc l-o9 



Silica and Silicates 61-53 



Oxygen &c. and loss 1-14 



100-00 

 A new mass of meteoric iron, from South Afiica, was also noticed by Mr. 

 Gregory. It fell in 1SG2 at Yictoria West, and is i^reserved in the Museum 

 at Cape Town. (Quarterlv Journal of Science for January 1869, No. xxi. 

 p. 133). 



Pnompehu, Camboja, Cochinchiua, 1868, between June 20th and 30th, 



about 3'' r.M. (local time). 

 The meteorite separated into three pieces, of which one fell at the door of 



