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ploded over the south of Oxfordshire — but further details are much 

 wanted. 



The meteor must apparently have been very large, as the explosion 

 was heard or felt over an area of upwards of 2000 square miles — the 

 area being 84 miles in length, from about S.W. to N.E., i.e., from the 

 confines of Wiltshire to Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, and of an 

 average breadth of about 25 miles. The sites whence returns have 

 been received are shown on the annexed map. 



Presents, December 8, 1887. 



Transactions. 



Cambridge, Mass. : — Harvard College. Bulletin of the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology. Vol. XIII. Nos. 4-5. 8vo. Cambridge 

 1887; Memoirs. Yol. XVI. Nos. 1-2. 4to. Cambridge 1887. 



The Museum. 



Harvard University. A Record of the Commemoration on the 

 two hundred and fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of 

 Harvard College. Large 8vo. Cambridge 1887. 



The University. 



Essex : — The Essex Naturalist. 1887. Nos. 5-9. 8vo. Buchhurst 



Hill The Essex Field Club. 



Falmouth : — Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 54th Annual 



Report. 8vo. Falmouth 1886. The Society. 



Hermannstadt : — Siebenbiirgischer Yerein fur Naturwissenschaften. 



Yerhandlungen und Mittheilungen. Jahrg. XXX V- XXX VTT, 



8vo. Hermannstadt 1885-87. The Yerein. 



Jena : — Medicinisch-naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft. Jenaische 



Zeitschrift fur Naturwissenschaft. Band XX. Heft 4. 



Band XXI. Hefte 1-2. 8vo. Jena 1887. The Society. 



Lausanne : — Societe Yaudoise des Sciences Naturelles. Ser. 3. 



Yol. XXII. No. 95. Yol. XXIII. No. 96. 8vo. Lausanne 



]887. The Society. 



Liverpool: — Astronomical Society. Journal. Yols. III-Y. Yol. 



YI. ■ Part 1 (with Supplementary Number). 8vo. Liverpool 



1884-87 ; Transactions. Nos. 2-4. 8vo. Liverpool 1884 ; 



Laws of the Society. Svo. Liverpool 1886 ; List of Members. 



8vo. Liverpool 1887. The Society. 



London: — Iron and Steel Institute. Journal. 1887. No. 1. 8vo. 



London. The Institute. 



Linnean Society. Proceedings. Sessions 1883-84, 1886-87. 



8vo. London. The Society. 



Odontological Society. Transactions. Yol. XIX. No. 8. Svo. 



London 1887. The Society. 



