1876.] H. B. Medlicoit—JucJescf/eri Meteorites. 221 



No. IV. Oiverse as in No. I, king (?) helmeted, witli nimbus and 

 sj)ear in right hand. Sword in girdle. 



Legend OPAArNO " Orlagno" ; meaning not yet known. 



The Seceetaet exhibited some si^ecimens o£ Meteorites recently 

 fallen in India and read some remarks upon them by Mr. H. B. Medlicott. 

 Becorcl of tlie Juclesegeri Meteorite of IQtJi Felruary, 1876. 



The meteorite was sent to the Indian Museum by the Chief Commis- 

 sioner of Mysore. It fell in the bed of the tank of Judesegeri village in the 

 Chittanhalli hobh of the Kadaba Taluk, on the evening of the 16th 

 February, 1876. The position is about Lat. 12° 51' N., Lon. 76' 48' E, 



The pieces sent weigh in the aggregate 1 lb. 9 oz. 136 grains. They 

 are all more or less broken, forming jarobably a small portion of the total 

 fall. There is nothing remarkable in their appearance : they contain 

 nodules of triolite ; but for the rest they have the pale grey colour and 

 granular texture of the most common variety of meteoric ston'e. The 

 specific gravity is 3 '63. 



The circumstances of the fall are related as follows : — 



Judesegeri stone — Report of the Deputy Gommissioner of TumTcur. 



" The find is entirely due to Mr. Assistant Commissioner Woodcock, 

 who, having received reports from all his Police stations in the Kadaba 

 Taluk of the meteor being seen, and the general imj)ression that it had 

 fallen close to each, instituted a vigorous search, and it then transpired, 

 that a Tigalar, who was that night sleeping in a hut in his garden, heard, 

 after seeing the meteor, a thud in the earth, not far distant, as of a heavy 

 body falling. In the morning he discovered the stone buried several 

 inches deep in the bed of the adjoining tank ; but under the impression 

 that it contained gold it had unfortunately been smashed and changed 

 hands before the fragments now sent were eventually recovered. It is 

 " alleged to have smelt strongly of sulphm- when found." 



" I observe from the local papers that the meteor was seen at Bangalore, 

 and supposed to fall in the Roman Catholic Cathedral compound. I 

 myseU saw it at this station (Tiimkur), it was observed at Kallambelle and 

 Sira ; at the former place it is reported to have been accomj^auied by a. 

 slight shock of an earthquake, and a great noise, which latter was also 

 distinctly heard at Tiimkur almost immediately following the fall of the 

 meteor, and apparently being a direction from north to south ; and I have 

 also learned from Major Armstrong that the meteor was observed by him at 

 Chitaldroog nearly at the same time as visible in this District and at Ban- 

 galore ; the whizzing sound of the falling meteor was, however, apparently 

 only heard in the western Taluks of this District." 



