456 W. .1/. Foote — Shower of Meteoric Stones, Arizona. 



Principal Stone Showers of the 19th Century. 

 The following data are gathered from Wiilfihg's " Meteori 



ten": 



Date 



of 



Fall 



April 26, 1803 

 Dec. 14, 1807 

 May 22, 1S08 

 May 1, 1860 

 June 9, 1866 

 Jan. 30, 1868 

 Jan. 1, 1869 

 Feb. 12, 1875 

 Feb. 3, 1882 

 May 2, 1S90 



Locality 

 L'Aigle, France 

 Weston, Connecticut 

 Stannern, Austria 

 New Concord, Ohio 

 Knyahinya, Hungary 

 Pultusk, Poland 

 Hessle, Sweden 

 Homestead, Iowa 

 Mocs, Hungary 

 Forest, Iowa 



Recorded 



Recorded 



Number 



Weight 



of 



of Fall in 



Stones 



Grams 



2000-3000 



36,843 



Many 



18,267 



200-300 



38,408 



Over 30 



97,811 



Over 1000 



423,120 



About 100,000 200,932 



Many 



22,895 



Many 



124,492 



Over 100,000 



155,632 



Many 



122,037 



Over 14,000 



218,310 



July 19, 1912 Holbrook, Arizona 



No other aerolites are recorded from Arizona, the nearest 

 meteoric fall being the siderite of Canyon Diablo, some sixty 

 miles distant. 



Philadelphia, October 7, 1912. 



Note, Oct. 2Jf,lh. — Of the numerous witnesses to whom a 

 list of nineteen questions was submitted, but few replied to the 

 following : In the area covered by the fall, were the large and 

 small stones mixed indiscriminately or were they sorted some- 

 what according to size ? The first answered that the stones 

 were mixed. But in a supplementary statement, Mr. Yon 

 Aachen writes on Oct. 18th that he found the small and large 

 stones separated. Further evidence is manifestly needed 

 before the actual facts are established concerning a sorting of 

 the shower. 



