74 N. 8. Maskelyne on Aerolitics. 
homogeneity that acca sion that on another part. The fol- 
owing, in the British Museum collection, are cases in point: 
Stannern, Bokkeveldt, Benares, =P Aig: and Mezé-Madaras. — 
ese facts are among those we have to explain. On the present 
occasion they were accompanied, according to every witness, by _ 
reports in the air, and by a subsequent roll of thunder. In two 
cases the distinct reports were three in number. There was 4 
out in the sky, out of which the aerolite seemed to — 
while at Bulloah the stone or stones were seen to fall asa 
luminous bedy, which at some part of its path page to be : 
tillate in the air. The shell-like form, too, of the u 
— ee fate ett —— suggestion will prove a very ferti 
The of the cal space m = be shared ty 
badies wandering therein Widious atmospher 
Such a _ — with ascnor | Yaleoity the terrestrial 
Bat while the enormous velocity of the body is thus i 
neously arrested and converted into heat, the effect of that 
will not be exhibited in the molten spray of enamel alone. © 
heated surface will gradually, but by no means slowly, 
— its heat to eo eel and notwithstanding the non-condu 
_ character y ingredients of an —— ——- —_ 
ions seg shell sonic ~ will rapidly rise in ten 
