C. U.Shepard— Meteoric Stone of Rochester, Indiana. 209 



The third notice attended o 



consists of a letter addressed to Professor ] 

 A. J. Norris, the finder of this stone. 



"Enclosed you will find a specimen of the meteorite. The 

 circumstances under which the stone was found are these. 

 Hearing a rumbling noise, I stepped out of the house, and 

 heard the stone fall. I marked the direction of the sound, and 

 the next morning repaired to the field whence it had proceeded, 

 where I discovered it lying upon the snow. I saw two places 

 where it had previously struck, and from whence it had 

 bounded to its resting place. No appearance of any other 

 stone was visible in the region. Its weight was about three- 

 quarters of a pound." 



The following is from a letter (dated Bloomington, Ind., Jan. 

 19th) from Professor Kirkwood to myself : 



"You were kind enough to express a wish that I would fur- 

 nish you some notes in regard to the meteor. I have written 

 many letters of inquiry, to some of which I have received 

 replies. I have also a number of newspaper accounts of the 

 ph^numejiou. I rearet to say, however, that many of the 

 statements made by observers are so inaccurate and contradic- 

 tory as to be of little value. Being busy with other matters, I 

 tearly all of them in the hands of Professor Wylie. 

 The following conclusions, derived from the observations at 

 -ton, Indiana, and Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, can 

 'ie relied upon as nearly correct: 



Rev. Dr. Wylie, Professorof Natural Philosophy in the Indiana 

 state University, noticed the point in a tree apparently passed 

 b Y the meteor. The angle of elevation was subsequently 

 ad to be about 15 degrees. But the meteor 

 Passed our meridian 131 miles north. These data, making 

 "" tiiei to i tin ( m \ itun of the earth'.- .- ni < give about 

 38 miles as the height of the body when passing the boundary 

 ^ne between Pulaski and Fulton Counties. Indiana. At 

 W ooster, Wayne County, Ohio, the meteor apparently passed 

 a particular point of the steeple of a public building. From 

 f 1 "* observation the apparent altitude when over Lake Erie, 

 immediately north of the city, was found by Professor Samuel 

 •' K cwi >od to have been about 24 degrees, corresponding to 



S mu e hei ° bt ° f 28 0I ' 29 tni!eS - 



. Ine most western point from which I have received a report 

 M Emporia, Kansas. It passed that place a few degrees S. E. 

 °J the zenith. I thin ![ ie visible over the 



N - W. corner of Texas, at an elevation of 70 or 80 miles. The 

 estimates of time for the meteor are so discordant that it seems 

 "^possible to determine whether it was moving in an ellipse, a 



