278 REPORT— 1869. 



1869, January 1st (morning). 

 Stonefall at Lake Malar, Upland, Sweden. (' BuUetiui? de I'Association 

 Scientifiqne de France,' No. 105.) 



Kriihenberg, near Zweibriicken, Bavaria, May 5th, 1869, 6'' 30"' p.m. 



(local time). 

 A specimen of this stonefall is in the Miueralogical Museum of Vienna. — 

 (CommuDicated by 11. P. Greg. See also the Eeport on this meteorite by Dr. 

 Neumayer, in the ' Proceedings of the Sections.') 



Kernouve, Cleguei'ec, Morbihau (Ycndee), S. France. (Comptes Eendus, 

 No. 25, 1869.) May 22nd, 1869, 9'' 45'" p.m. (local time). 



Stonefall after a brilliant meteor, which was seen at I'Orieut, and at 

 Yannes by M. Arondeau, leaving a long streak, and followed by a violent 

 detonation. (' Bulletins de I'Association Scientifique do France,' Nos. 123 

 and 12-1.) 



A large meteor, casting a bluish glare over the whole town, was seen in a 

 northerly direction from Yannes, and was folloAved in 2| or 3 minutes by a 

 violent explosion, which shook the doors and windows of the houses. A 

 meteorite, which appears to have been of conical shape, and to have weighed 

 aboiit 160 lbs. (English), struck the earth, at Kernouve, a few yards from a 

 young girl, who was the only witness of its fall, and it penetrated a little 

 more than a yard into the ground. On the following morning it was dug 

 out, broken in pieces, and the fragments were distributed among the villagers 

 as mementos of a stone supposed to have fallen from the moon. Unable to 

 disabuse its possessors of the supposed value of the relics, Professor Felix 

 Pisani, of Paris, at considerable expense, succeeded in securing possession of 

 •almost the entire aerolite for his mineral cabinet, where the larger half is 

 now" destined for one of the European museums. A specimen weighing 

 32 lbs. be presented to the Paris Academy, with a careful analysis of the 

 meteorite. The interior of the stone presents a dark grey gramilar mass, 

 with iron-pyrites, and much metallic iron in bright grains, some of them a 

 few millimetres Avide, and others like thin veins or filaments scattered through 

 it. The iron-pyrites, although magnetic, is not attracted by the magnet, and 

 the metallic iron is thus easily separated from it. The entire meteorite is 

 highly magnetic, and its speciiic gravity is 3-747. Its substance is fused by 

 the blowpipe to a black magnetic bead, in which the spectroscope reveals the 

 presence of sodium and calcium. It is partly attacked by muriatic acid; and 

 a specimen thus treated offered to M. Pisani the following proximate che- 

 mical analysis : — 



Nickeliferous iron 20-5 



Magnetic iron-pyrites (Fc^ S^) 5-45 



Silicates soluble in muriatic acid 34*6 



Silicates insoluble in muriatic acid 40-22 



100-77 

 b. Large Meteors. 



September 5th, 1868, l"" 4™ p.m. (G.M.T.). Passage of a black body across 



the sun's disk. 

 On the same date as that of the large meteor seen at Geneva and in Central 

 France (see Catalogue), Mr. G. Forbes commuicates the following observation 

 of a black body seen to transit the sun's disk at Pitlochrie, in Perthshire. 

 The sun's disk was projected on a white screen with a 2^-inch achromatic 



