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EEPOKT 1880. 



Hrrata — continued. 



Appendix II. — Aerolites. By Walter Flight. 



1841, September 6. 



-St. Christophe-la-Chartreuse, Commune de Eoche- 

 Servieres, Vendee.^ 



The fall of this stone, whicli was accompanied by a double detonation 

 resembling thunder and a luminous appearance, took place in the vine- 

 yards of St. Christophe at the above date. It created quite a panic in the 

 surroundinp- country ; on the first day none of the peasants would ap- 

 proach it ; one could only look with fear in the direction where it lay, it 

 was said ; but on the following day a young man, who was escorted to the 

 spot, found it out and brought it away with him. 



The stone weighs 5-500 kilogrammes, and is in the hands of a pro- 

 prietor who was neither disposed to communicate any information respect- 

 ing it, nor to allow any fragments to be removed. M. Daubree has 

 therefore to content himself with registering its existence, which up to 

 the present time has not been placed on record. 



1874, November 26, 10.30 a.m. — Kerilis, Commune de Mael-Pestivien, 

 Canton de Gallac (Gotes-du-Nord) .^ 



A great noise, lasting two minutes and resembling a peal of thunder, 

 was heard at this date at Mael-Pestivien and for ten kilometres around. 

 At the same instant a workman near the village of Kerilis saw the earth 

 struck, at a spot 12 metres distant, by what he believed to be thunder. He 

 visited the spot the next day, and found a meteorite at a depth of 078 

 metre. The stone weighed 5*000 kilogrammes, and is covered with a re- 

 markably thick black crust : a number of fragments were detached from 

 the stone till its weight was reduced to 4-200 kilogrammes ; it then passed 

 into the hands of a clergyman, who bought it and presented it to the 

 Natural History Museum of Paris. 



A freshly broken surface of the stone shows a mottled and striated 

 surface, with metallic grains of nickel iron ; the surface is of a deep gray 

 colour with ochre-coloured spots, due doubtless to traces of iron chloride. 

 The individual grains vary in size ; some, the largest, are chalk- white, 



> M. Daubree, Compt. Bend., 1880, xci. p. 30. * Ibid., p. 28. 



