164: Br. Walter Flight— On Meteorites. 



Strahan,' in a paper wliicli he read at the last meeting of the British 

 Association, a certain duplex series of marls and sandstones, which 

 had been observed by Messrs. Hull and Binney cropping out in one 

 place, and had been described by them as " Upper Permian," are 

 really the base of the Triassic series in that district. In coal-pits 

 recently sunk, and in "borings," they have been found lying con- 

 formably beneath the Triassic strata, and resting unconformably 

 upon the Coal-measures. A comparison of the sections leads further 

 to the inference that in the direction of their attenuation the lower 

 series of these beds thins out faster than the upper, and in this 

 way their general conformity with the Triassic beds above them is 

 shown. The position, therefore, that these beds can justly be con- 

 sidered Upper Permian, is no longer tenable. This agrees with the 

 information with which Mr. C. E. De Eance, F.G.S., has been kind 

 enough to furnish me. He considers the "Upper Permian" of the 

 Survey to be wanting in South and South-west Lancashire, and is 

 doubtful if the Garstaig Sandstones ought to be so considered. Mr. 

 De Eance also considers the so-called " Upper Permian " of North 

 Lancashire to occupy the same horizon as the St. Bee's Sandstone 

 (cf. supra). 



{To he continued in our next Number.') 



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

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

 [Continued from p. 111.) 



1876, April 7th (evening). — Eperjes, Hungary.^ 



A fireball passed over Eperjes 8'^ [?E. or W.] from the meridian, 

 and detonated at an altitude of 38° above the horizon. It exploded 

 with a very loud noise, and broke into numei'ous fiery fragments. 



1876, April 20th, 3-40 p.m. — Rowton, near Wellington, seven miles 

 north of the Wrekin, Shropshire.^ 

 It is not a little curious that twice in five years the British Islands 

 have been visited with meteoric falls ; in each case a single specimen 

 has been found and, the one a small block of iron, the other a small 

 block of rock, they constitute the prettiest little cabinet specimens 

 of the two chief typical classes of meteorites. The former fell at 

 Eowton, in April, 1 876 ; the other near Middlesborough, in York- 

 shire, on March 14th, 1881, and will be described later on. The 

 Eowton iron weighs 7J lbs. A strange rumbling noise was heard 

 in the air, followed almost instantaneously by a startling explosion 

 resembling a discharge of heavy artillery. Eain was falling heavily 

 at the time. About one hour after the explosion was heard a man 

 had occasion to go into a turf field in his occupation adjoining the 



1 Vide Reports of Section C. of the British Association for 1881. 



2 Egyetertes es Magyar Pjsag. Budapest, April 13, 1876. 



3 Wolverhampton Chronicle, and Birmingham Daily Post ; Nature, April 7th, 

 1876, and Nature, July 27th, 1876. Walter Flight, Paper read before the Eoyal 

 Society, February 9th, 1882, 



