]06 Br. Walter Flight— On Meteorites. 



Fig. 4 & 5. View of two sides of nodule from Devonian, Gerolstein, containing 

 plate of Scaphaspis, sp'. ]!^at. size. 



,, 6. Side view of same, showing the several layers of which the scute 



seems to be composed. Nat. size. 



,, 7. Highly magnified section of the same, showing repeated layers of shell- 



structure. 



,, 8. Outline of shield of Scaphaspis (restored). 



,, 9. Eostral plate of Pteraspis, (Jld Eed Sandstone, Stow HiU Eoad, 



Newport, Monmouthshire (magnified three times). 



,, lO&ll. Dorsal spines of cephalic shield of Cephalaspis, Devonian, Polperro, 

 Cornwall. 



(The above are all preserved in the author's Cabinet ; Villa Syracusa, Torquay, 

 South Devon.) 



III. — Supplement to a Chapter in the History of Meteorites. 



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



{Continued from p. 69.) 



1875. March 31st, between 3 and 4 p.m — Zsadany, Temesvar, the 

 Banat, Hungary.^ 



No luminous meteor appears to have been observed at the time 

 these stones fell ; the day was bright and sunny and the sky cloud- 

 less. A sound as of platoon-firing was heard, and a small shower 

 of black stones descended, some within the area of the village of 

 Zsadany in the courtyards of the inhabitants, others in the open 

 fields. They did not fall together, but at slight intervals, which 

 appear to have been at least one-third of a minute. Some were 

 picked up immediately they reached the ground, and were found to 

 be cold. It maj' be mentioned here that the stones which fell at 

 Dhurmsala, in India- (1860, July 4th), are stated to have been so 

 cold that they could not be held in the hand. 



Sixteen stones in all have been found ; the largest, having the size 

 of a goose's egg and weighing about 152 grammes, is preserved in 

 the National Museum at Pest ; the remainder have an average size 

 of a walnut, and their aggregate weight is nearly 400 grammes. 

 Memak has sent a preliminary report describing the seven largest 

 stones, illustrated with photogi'aphs of the four most interesting 

 masses, to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The investigation 

 of this aerolite has been undertaken by Wartha and Krenner ; the 

 former will subject it to analysis, the latter examine its mineralogical 

 characters. 



I learn, from an obliging letter received from Prof. Szabo, that 

 these meteorites have a coarse-grained texture, and are somewhat 

 friable, and that they contain nickel-iron and scales of graphite. 



Dr. Cohen, of Heidelberg, received some fragments of the stone 



^ Egyetertes es Magyar Ujsag, 23rd April, and June 16th, 1875. 



'^ W. von Haidinger, Sitzungsber. Akad. TFiss. TFien, xlii. 305, xliv. 285. [It 

 was a subject of frequent remark in conversation by Professor Brajdey that the 

 only foundation for this statement was a part of the native evidence collected on 

 the occurrence of this stonefall, that the meteorite came ' ' from the abode of snow ' ' 

 — a phrase which, in the native dialect, signifies a "northern direction," by a simple 

 but direct allusion to the snow-topped summits of the Himalayas. — Professor 

 .Alexander Herschel.] 



