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gether to disbelieve. We have also instances of the fall of 
aerolites recorded in our own day, being followed by similar 
results, as in a case noticed by the Rev. Baden Powell, M.A., 
&c., in his E-eport on Meteors to the British Association in 
1859 ; of a stone-fall at Dooralla, near Loodianah, in 1815, 
when the natives worshipped it, and commenced subscriptions 
for erecting a temple over it. Two stones fell at Parnallee, 
near Madras, in 1857; and their fall was followed by exactly 
the same results — crowds of natives worshipping the larger 
stone, " as the image of their deity, which had fallen from 
heaven" (see Silliman's American Journal of Science, No. 32, 
Nov. 1861). One of these stones weighs 130 lbs., and is the 
largest meteoric stone known ; it is now, I am glad to say, 
deposited in the British Museum. 
There seems little doubt that meteoric falls were one, at least, 
of the causes of the stone-worship of the ancients, instances 
of which are represented on their coins, under canopies or 
shrines. The Diana of Ephesus is not represented in this 
way, although on an ancient medallion given as an illustration 
to a learned paper on the Coins of Ephesus,* by Mr J. Y. Aker- 
man, and struck, he supposes, for those who came to wonder 
and to worship at her shrine, there is a rude mummy-like 
figure of the goddess, and on its head, if not simply an im- 
perfect 7nodius, with which she is often represented, something 
which reminds one of the very distinctive shape of a mete- 
oric stone or aerolite. 
Mr Akerman, in a paper on the Stone- Worship of the An- 
cients, illustrated by their Coins (Numismatic Journal, vol. ii. 
1837-8), since pointed out to me by Mr G. Sim, also refers to 
the probability of aerolites being objects of worship. 
Map of Meteoric Stone and Iron Falls. — The illustration 
of the subject of aerolites would be increased if, in addition 
to these published catalogues, we had also a map showing 
their fall over all the world. I would be especially anxious, 
in a map of this kind, that a careful distinction be made (by 
colour or otherwise) between metallic, and earthy or stone 
falls ; a distinction which, it appears to me, has scarcely been 
kept sufficiently in view by some writers, when considering 
* Numismatic Chronicle, vol iv. 1841, p. 118. 
