A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 387 
Lippstadt (Li.), Miinster (M.), Papenburg (Pa.), and Pekeloh (Pe.). The 
position of Blumenthal is E. long. 7° 48':3, N. lat. 53°11'; and of Leer, E. 
long. 13° 41'-5*, N. lat. 53°15’. The positions of the remaining stations, with 
a map, are already given in former Reports (for 1863, p. 323; and 1865, 
p. 125).. 
II. Aérorites, Lance Mrrzors, AnD STAR-SHOWERS. 
a. AWROLITES. 
1. Knyahinya, 1866, June 9, 48 56™ p.n. (local time). 
Second Report of Dr. Haidinger, with maps, drawings of the stone, and 
tinted plate of the meteor( Vienna Acad. Sitzungsbericht, vol. liv. pt. 2, Oct. 11, 
1866).—In addition to the brilliant fireball, whose light in broad day was like 
that of a faint flash of reddish lightning, and which was chiefly visible at a 
distance from the place of fall (Eperies, Rakamaz, &e.; see Report for 1866, 
p- 133), the following unusual phenomena attended the stonefall. Nearly 
simultaneously with the appearance of a small bluish cloud in the air over 
Sztricsava, near Knyahinya, there was heard at that place, and for many 
miles round, a sharp report, like that of a six-pounder cannon, followed for 
ten minutes by a rumbling sound like that of water boiling, the rumbling of 
a cart on a pavement, or of stones striking together. Three or four minutes 
after the first report stones were seen to fall at various places over an extent 
of area measuring from N.N.E. to $.8.W. about 9 miles in length, and about 
33 miles in breadth from W.N.W. to E.S.E. The stones when picked up 
were lukewarm, as if shone upon by the sun‘, or even as warm as if taken 
freshly from an oven. One, of the size of a plum, which fell upon a linen cloth, 
did not singe it. The smaller stones did not penetrate the earth more thana 
few inches, or lay upon the surface. One of moderate size, which fell through 
a tree at the door of the inn at Knyahinya, broke from it a branch half an 
inch in thickness; and ten such branches were broken by a larger stone, in 
its fall through an apple-tree, beneath which it was found. Many other 
stones were seen to fall. That which weighed 73 lbs. (Austrian) penetrated 
the firm sandstone-earth of the district to a depth of 2 feet. About 100 
paces from it, three weeks after the occurrence, was found a hole 4 feet wide 
and 43 feet deep, round which the earth had been scattered to a distance of 
30 yards. On sounding the hole a firm stone was discovered at a depth of 
11 feet below the surface. The aérolite was exhumed. It was found to be 
broken across, and, with the remaining pieces discovered in the same hole, 
weighed about 300 kilogrammes (660 Ibs. English). The direction of pene- 
tration was from N. 31° E., altitude 63°. Its position, a league N.E. from 
Knyahinya, occupies the extreme N.N.E. corner of the general area of the 
fall. Another very large stone is said to have fallen about two miles 8.W. 
from Knyahinya, which could not be discovered. Since the fall of an aérolite 
related by Pliny to have taken place at Hgospotamos, about 465 B.c., which 
was a full waggon-load, this is the largest fragment of an aérolite (not inclu- 
ding masses of meteoric iron) on record. The following, according to Dr. 
Haidinger, are the weights (avoirdupois) of the largest recorded specimens of 
other aérolites, viz. Ensisheim, 280 Ibs.; Juvenas, 240 lbs.; New Concord, 
103 Ibs.; Parnallee, 130 lbs. The two large and two smaller pieces into 
* Printed 52° 6'5 in the ‘ Astronomische Nachrichten,’ 7. ¢. 32° 65 E. long. from Ferro. 
+ And no, as stated in Dr. Haidinger’s first report, but. corrected by later communica- 
tions, “ice- cold.” 
