Astronomy and Meteorology. 441. 
sng conceived to take place i wh a panlant line with a velocity such as is observed or | 
ted from data, but this noes oe ult subject, though in some cases at 
aa Bot altogether impossible of so 
re stone of 28th Feb., reer, ‘came nearly from the constellation of the 
Fishes ; ate gave some notice of that meteorite in our meeting of Academy of the 
4th of July ; of 8 a new aerolite, or rather one not yet described, in the Government. 
of June, as rang on oy, e 8th of April and 6th of June, pag of large masses of me- 
pel iron, found near Melbourne, sib, wo 0 Men 5 at about a ee, 
e 5 to 6 tons from the Dandenong ranges and near West 
. Meteors resembling that remarkable one, Sains on July 2 20th, 
1860," over a space of more than 1000 miles, from Lake Michigan to 
Long Island, are of rare oceurrence. Notice of an analogous one was 
given by Dir. W. ame ve the meeting of the Imperial Acad. at 
Vienna of February 7th, 18 
This was observed by Dr. Gastare Tschermak, immediately after sun- 
set about 74 o'clock, some evening in August, 1848 or 1849 at Littau, 
.W. of Olmiitz, in Moravia, as “tis fireballs or rather distinctly sd 
shaped meteors of the greatest brilliancy, the first about three tim 
large as the area of the moon and larger than the second. He cberved 
them at an altitude of about 11° in W.S.W., moving towards 
disappearing at about 5° above the horizon "behind a little house. “The 
phenomenon lasted about 15 seconds; no sound was heard 
Several analogous phenomena are mentioned in Chladni’s work, “ Ueber 
Feuer-meteore. 
Before the year 1800 only two, and these, not very accurate accounts 
are recorded, the first of five fireballs, which are said to have fallen a few 
days after the 30th of November or aggre to others) on the 1 oth of 
ecember, 1642, between Gran and Ofen; pigs" was noticed by the 
rate into three parts, which afterwards re-united. 
ey belonging to this class are me. two small fireballs, about twice 
9 P. M. near Halle, moving in a makenen er direction, because @ sec- 
ond appeared five minutes edt the first, corresponding i in the orbit of the 
“Th ah sa: 2 Apel il 1 seh pit t 93 p. m., shows more an 
e fa) ril 15t a P. 
with the case of July 20, Pig61. ‘Luminous points followed this hee 
meteor moving Se downw sis g hes S. to N.; another was ob- 
served at Gottingen, Sept. 16th, 1815, after 9 . . where eight or ten 
smaller ones followed a fireball in the same direc 
Still greater similarity was shown dhe og: brilliant fireball of J Alb 
1818, between 9 and 10 P.M. glace wet pellier. separ : 
pear-shaped ball of ihe size of ful al with i D ; 
ro crt havin e appearance of asolid body, and immediately fol- 
Arag one in his list a phenomenon, the fireball of Collioure, or 
of East Pyrenees of chants 21st, 1846, consisting of two large lumin 
* This Jour., [2], vol. xxx, 2 
Memoires at uc de oa. od ed., Paris, 1668, p. 3 
Journal of Science of Roy. Inst. Lon e Be xi, vol. ey 
Populaire Astronomie, herausgege .G, tieekel, 1859, p. 219. 
Am. Jour. Sc1.—Seconp SERIES, VOL. XXXII, No, 96.—Nov., 1861. 
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