228 J. L. Smith—Description of Meteoric Stones. 
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as seen by him and others, eight from July, 1876, to February, 
1877, the stones from three of them are those described in this 
paper, the others left no evidence of their passage. By per- 
sonal observation I have noted, in the last two or three years, 
three splendid bolides, that were seen to burst in the sky, but 
of which no fragments were found; these I have described, and 
still others have been described to me by several observers. It 
is a still more striking circumstance, that, in the past sixty 
