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With the July number The American Mu- 

 seum Journal begins its appearance as a 

 quarterly. The leading article, illustrated, 

 is on ' Martinique and St. Vincent Revisited,' 

 by E. O. Hovey. Accessions are noted in 

 various departments as well as the complete 

 rearrangement of the halls of vertebrate pale- 

 ontoli)gy on the alcove system, so that the 

 attention of the visitor is concentrated on a 

 given group. In connection with forthcoming 

 improvements it is announced that two as- 

 sembly rooms will be provided for the vise of 

 scientific societies. The supplement to the 

 number, ' Guide Leaflet No. 11,' is devoted to 

 a description of ' The Musical Instruments of 

 the Incas,' by Charles W. Mead. 



Bird-lore for July-August contains ar- 

 ticles on ' The Bird Life of Cobbs' Island,' 

 by Frank M. Chapman ; ' In the Haunts of 

 New Zealand Birds,' by Charles Keeler; ' The 

 Loggerhead Shrike in Massachusetts,' by Jane 

 Atherton Wright ; ' System in Field Records,' 

 by Eugene Murray- Aaron and ' Some Notes 

 on the Psychology of Birds,' by C. William 

 Beebe. There are the usual notes and reviews, 

 and among the illustrations the fifth series of 

 portraits of Bird-Lore's Advisory Counciloi-s. 



DISCUSSIOX A\D CORRESPOyDESCE. 



ADDITIONAL FACTS CONCERXIXG THE BATH FUR- 

 .N.\CE METEORIC FALL OF NOVEMBER lo, 190-i. 



To THE Editor of Science: Since the an- 

 nouncement concerning Bath Furnace Aero- 

 lite No. 1, which appeared in Science of Jan- 

 uary 16, two other pieces have been found; 

 one picked up within one hundred yards of 

 where No. 1 fell, and the other one three 

 fourth mile south of this. Named in the 

 order in which the.v have been found, we have 

 designated these as No. 2 and No. 3, respect- 

 ively. 



No. 2 weighed 223 grams. It was com- 

 pletely coated with the black enamel or var- 

 nish and pitted. It has been sawed into two 

 pieces: one for the Field Columbian !N[useum 

 and the other for the Kentucky State College 

 iluseum. It has the same specific gravity and 



presents the same interior appearance as Bath 

 Furnace No. 1. 



No. 3, found about the middle of May last, 

 by a hunter who was led to search for it by 

 noticing a skinned place some distance up on 

 a white oak sapling, will weigh about 200 

 pounds. It is also completely coated with the 

 black enamel, and is very characteristicall.y 

 pitted and furrowed. These furrows radiate 

 from a smooth nose or boss. It was this por- 

 tion which bruised its way downward into the 

 base and roots of the tree. The side opposite 

 to this is flat and not furrowed nor pitted, but 

 presents a few nodular excrescences. 



As a result of visiting the locality, exam- 

 ining the places where the pieces struck and 

 securing the accounts of the residents, all of 

 whom were much startled by the blinding 

 light and terrific detonations accompanying 

 the fall, I gather the following: There was 

 probably one mass originally, which burst at 

 a height of from eight to nine miles into many 

 fragments. These fragments struck the earth 

 in a district some four miles square, situated 

 in the knobs of the extreme southern portion 

 of Bath County. Most of the region is thinly 

 populated. No. 3 was found almost in the 

 center of this thinly populated district. The 

 accounts given by the residents of the noise 

 made by the ' explosion,' of the singing of the 

 fragments as they hurtled through the air, 

 and the sound made by their striking the 

 ground or hitting the timber on the knobs, 

 were very graphic. 



No. 3, which is probably the main portion 

 of the original mass, has left some record 

 from which possibly the trajectory of this 

 celestial body may be computed. From the 

 way in which it grazed the sapling in its 

 descent, and bruised its way into the roots 

 of the tree at the base of which it was found, 

 I estimate that it came in from a direction 

 13 degrees south of west, and at an angle 

 from the horizontal of 77 degrees. As pre- 

 viously announced, the altitude of the point 

 of the bursting of the meteor, as seen from 

 Lexington, was 9 degrees and 30 minutes. 

 The azimuth of this point is N. 81 degrees 

 E. The point of fall, however, plots out on 



