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[No. 2, 
Report on the Shalka. Sfc. Meteorites. 
Baron Reichenlach’s Family 1, Group 1, — Langues (Chapigny,) 
Bishopsville, Tonsac — corresponding to Professor Sliepard’s Chlad- 
nito— trachytic meteorites. 
Here follow the four new meteorites, ready for incorporation with 
the Imperial Museum of mineralogy. 
I. — Futteiipoke, (November 30th, 1822). 
The first report on this fall was given to the Calcutta Medical 
Society by Dr. Tytler* as at Bourpore in the jurisdiction of Futteh- 
pore 70 miles N. E. from Allahabad. Under this last locality, this 
meteorite is mentioned in the Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal (June 1859). Neither these Proceedings, nor JDr. Tytler 
himself mentions a more precise date than “ end of November.” 
Professor Shepard has noted the date “ November 30th” on the 
specimen in his collection. The Calcutta Museum possesses 3 speci- 
mens of 4 lb. 3 oz. ; 3 lb. 8| oz. and 1 lb. 4^ oz. weight ; the last has 
been transmitted to the Vienna Imperial Museum. It arrived with 
a weight of 1 lb. | ounces Vienna weight. Another specimen in the 
Calcutta Museum of 12j ounces weight, labelled, Bithour and 
Shapur, 75 miles N. W. of Allahabad, November 30, 1S22., is cer- 
tainly not identical with the Futtehpore specimen, although I could 
not make out whether the same meteoric fall spread fragments at a 
distance of 100 miles, or whether the whole statement rests on a 
typographical error. f In fact, a real meteoric shower took place. 
Doctor Tytler states the stone, whose fall he witnessed, and which he 
gathered still hot, to have weighed 1 lb. 6 ounces. The observation 
of the fall had been complete : shortly before sunset a luminous 
body surrounded by a red globe of moon-like aspect seemed to come 
down the air near Futtehpore spreading sparks as it went on ; and a 
thunder-like noise was heard. Near Hazaribagh 250 miles E. of 
Allahabad, the light of the globe was visible through a veil of clouds 
covering the sky. Professor C. M. Shepard, gave notice of the 
phenomenon, and the stone of Futtehpore to the Meeting of the 
* Edinburgh Journal of Science, No. 15, p. 171,1828. Kamfz und Sehweiggen. 
Seidel’s Jahrbuch der Ph. Ch. und Physik Vol. XXIII. (LIII.) p. 471 — Pog- 
gendorff’s Annul : 1830, Vol. XVIII. p. 179. 
f [There seems to be some error in our records, which cannot now be rectified. 
The Futtehpore, near which lies Kourpore, is 70 miles N. W. of Allahabad, 
while Bithour and Shapur are near another Futtehpore about 130 miles N. W. 
of Allahabad.— Eds.] 
