596 On the Meteors of I2th JVovember. 



(3.) The testimony showing that the radiant point was stationary 

 among the stars will be considered hereafter. 



9. Matter supposed to come from the meteors. — In several 

 instances, material substances were supposed by the observers to fall 

 upon the earth ; and in a number of cases, matter was found which 

 was supposed to have proceeded from the meteors. 



(1.) We have received a communication from Mr. H. H. Garland, 

 of Nelson Co., who states, that on hearing a large drop of water fall 

 on the roof of a coop, he immediately looked, and discovered a sub- 

 stance of about the circumference of a twenty five cent piece, of the 

 consistence and appearance of the white of an egg made hot, or per- 

 haps, animal jelly broken into fragments would be a better compa- 

 rison. (Richmond Enquirer.) 



(2.) Persons in this town saw particles of " fiery rain" strike the 

 ground, and on examination, discovered lumps of jelly, as they term 

 them. (Rahway, New Jersey Advocate.) 



(3.) After sun-rise, a mass of gelatinous matter was found, which, 

 from its singular texture, is supposed to have formed one of the large 

 meteors. Its appearance resembled soft soap. It possessed little 

 elasticity, and on the application of heat, evaporated as readily as 

 water. The manner in which this substance fell on the ground, in- 

 dicated that it had fallen with prodigious force. (Newark, N. J. pa- 



(4.) A woman at this place (West Point,) who was milking about 

 sun rise, on the 13th, saw something come down " with a sposh" be- 

 fore her. On looking she saw a round flattened mass, about a tea cup 

 or coffee cup full, looking like boiled starch, so clear that she could 

 see the ground through it. At 10 o'clock, she went out to show it to 

 some persons, and no vestige of it remained. A boy observed some 

 minute white particles on the spot, as large as small shot, or pin's 

 heads, of irregular shape, and falling to powder, and disappearing 

 when he went to take them up. I went to the spot with the woman 

 and boy, and concluded that if I heard of any analogous facts from 

 other quarters, I would consider this as entitled to notice, but not oth- 

 erwise. (Mr. Alexander C. Twining to Prof. Olmsted.) 



(5.) One of our citizens was awakened by a ball of fire falling 

 against his window. (Hartford Times.) 



10. Electrical and magnetic observations. — Observations 

 made in various places, indicated a highly electrical state of the atmos- 

 phere. No very decisive observations with magnetic instruments, 

 have come to our knowledge. 



