Astronomy. 281 
f ) 
and then the fall of New Concord, 1860, and of Parnallee, 1857, 
had forcibly called upon me to draw up, as it were, a genera rule 
e 
Meteorites, relating to their composition and the phenomena of 
their fall.”* T felt, it is true, that I had rather too auey ventured 
moir on the s erat! a a translation, by my honored friend 
Count A. F, Marchall, of my = communication to our Acad- 
of the frionds of this department ‘of naturel. shea oe rie me- 
: : ive 
ber 9th, 1 1861, while I also sent a French translation by my ex- 
8 pope friend Count Marchall, together with a copy of my orig- 
ina 
Since that time, up to this day, I had frequently, in seve al 
cap aR rain on meteoritic subjects, had an opportunity to re- 
‘‘Ueber die Natur der Meteoriten in ihrer Zusammensetzung und Erschein- 
tg,” Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie oe Ni issenchaften, der 
athem -naturw. 
° sse, 
t “An attempt to account for the Physical Condition aud pig Fall of Meteorites 
upon our Planet, by W. Haidinger, Ho n. Memb. R.S.L. & E. &c.,"’ Report td aan 
Transactions of the Sections, p. 15. ‘Some Considerations on M. n 
. rr iesessien ge on the Origin and Fall of Aérolites, by R. P. Greg, F.G. 3,” ibid, 
oS sgwartete on the Phenomena ae the Fall of Meteorites on the 
Hai ee ye ae he wats R.S.L. & E.; and Philosophi etd 
ae Nordintee oe ead Dece 
s e 
Inger,” Comptes I Rendus hebdomadaires des séances de aus bin Sciences, 
bd 
Ste., t. lili. Juillet-Décembre 1861, pp. 456-461 
Am, Jour. Sc1.—Szcoxp Series, VOL. XLVII, No. 143.—Sept., 1869. 
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