448 
Joseph Gross, illuminated letters, foliated capi- 
tals; date, April 20, 1830; double tulips in 
foliate on yellow ground. D, Title page to 
manuscript hymn book, name Sarah Wismer ; 
foliated capitals, conventional flowers on heavy 
stalks; date 1827; colors red, yellow, brown 
and blue. HE, Title page to ditto; name, Eliza- 
beth Nesch (Neschin), with words Dieses Sing- 
Noten Buchlein Gehoret Mir; Sing Schuler In 
Der Bedminster Schule; Geschrieben Septem- 
ber 6—ten im Jahr 1799, with three tulips and 
several colors. Other examples are within easy 
Fie. 1. 
SCIENCE. 
[N. S. Vou. VI. No. 142. 
REMARKABLE HAILSTONES. 
AxouT 5 o’clock in the afternoon of August 
10th I was at Manassas depot, in Prince Wil- 
liam County, Va., near the famous battlefield, 
waiting for a train. There was some pretty 
severe thunder and lightning for a half hour or 
so, and then came a heavy shower of rain, dur- 
ing which there was the most remarkable fall 
of hail I have ever witnessed. I hurried out - 
in the rain to examine the stones and picked 
up several. These were nearly square flattish 
blocks, say from # to 1 inch in length and 
Fig. 2. 
Outline of Hailstones that fell at Manassas, Va., August 10, 1897. 
reach of the writer. And it has appeared evi- 
dent that the art thus preserved by Mennonites 
in aremote part of Bucks County until about 
1850, and represented by the old paint boxes in 
possession of the Historical Society, is a survival 
in America of the medizeval art of manuscript 
illumination. Much more remains to be said 
upon this subject which reveals the early rela- 
tion of Germany to the United States in one of 
its most interesting aspects. 
Henry C. MERCER. - 
INDIAN Hovsr, August 30, 1897. 
breadth, and from } to $ an inch in thickness. 
They suggested, by both shape and size, the 
ordinary ‘chocolate caramels,’ of the confec- 
tioner. There were some 8 or 10 persons, I 
think, in the station house with me, and sey- 
eral of these, observing my interest and enthu- 
siasm, began to pick up the larger stones and 
bring them in to me and to to my friend, Pro- 
fessor Hargrove, of Luray, Va. Soon larger 
and larger ones were thus collected, and I 
sought for means of measuring or weighing 
them. No rule or scales could be found, and 
