70 Dr. Walter Flight — History of Meteorites. 



Oxygen 0-0037 



Nitrogen 0-0126 



Carbonic Acid 0-2758 



Sulphuric Acid 1-8842 



SilicicAcid 0-0082 



Chlorine 3-8630 



Lime 0-5286 



Magnesia 0-3219 



Potash 0-1092 



Soda _ 2-7629 



Iron, Organic substances, and Alumina .. . traces. 



Total solid and gaseous substances ... ... 9-7701 



Water 990-2299 



Total 1000-0000 



The water deposits upon the walls and pipes of the bath-house a 

 thick white incrustation. 



Of the more active and very striking manifestations of volcanic 

 activity at the present time in the Lipari Islands we shall treat in 

 succeeding chapters, which we propose to devote to the description 

 of the remarkable active volcanos of Vulcano and Stromboli. 

 (To be continued in our next Number.) 



III. — A Chapter in the History oe Meteorites. 



By Walteb Flight, D.Sc, F.G.S., 



Of the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum ; 

 Assistant Examiner in Chemistry, University of London. 



{Continued from page 30.) 



1870, January 23rd. — Nidigullam, near Parvatypore, Vizagapatam 

 District, Madras. [Lat. 18° 41' 20" N. ; Long. 83° 28' 30" E.] l 



A meteoric iron, weighing 407 tolas (about 10 lbs.), fell at Nidi- 

 gullam, and penetrated the ground to the depth of twenty inches. 

 Those who saw the meteor describe it as very large and beautiful, 

 and as exhibiting increased brilliance when it burst. The explosion 

 was followed by a series of rumbling noises. The meteorite passed 

 over Parvatypore from N. to S. ; the people of the village were 

 greatly alarmed, and one man, near whom it fell, was stunned. The 

 villagers "carried it off to their temple, and, much alarmed, were 

 found making puja to it." The author of the notice in the Proceedings 

 considers that this aerolite contains no stony matter, and he states 

 that it is marked with strias lying obliquely to its greatest length, 

 which is 6^ inches. The lamented Dr. Stoliczka, however, was of 

 opinion, from the description of the striation, that it is a stone con- 

 taining much iron, " like the Mooltan aerolite which fell some short 

 time ago." 2 If it be metallic throughout, as Saxton asserts, it is the 

 third 3 iron recorded to have fallen in India, and one of the very few 



1 G. H. Saxton. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1870, 64.— This fall is stated by Mr. 

 Greg, in the Report Brit. Assoc., 1870, to have taken place December 26th, 1869. 



2 This is probably the meteorite of Lodran which fell 1st October, 1868 (see 

 Part II.). 



3 The second is that found at Prambanan, Soerakarta, Java, in 1865 ; if we include 



