13G "Report on the ShalJca, Sfc. Meteorites. [No. 2, 
first specimen of this meteorite shower, a fragment of 7| ounces was 
sent (November 24th, 3854,) to the Society from Patna by Capt. 
W. S. Sherwill, Rev. Survey ; who had received it from Mr. F. A. 
Glover, C. S., Joint Magistrate of Chumparun, together with the 
first notice about the fall, on March 4th, (March Gtli, according to 
later reports) about noon. A man and a boy had heard next to their 
stand a heavy body falling to the ground, without any other extra- 
ordinary noise. They gathered up several of the fallen stones, and 
brought them to then 1 small village, some few miles S. of Segowlee, 
where they soon came into the hands of some irregular sowars sta- 
tioned there. The Adjutant of the corps, Lieut. Macdougall, present- 
ed Mr. Glover with a large stone. This gentleman subsequently 
obtained two other small specimens, and saw about thirty of them 
gathered in a short time on the surface of one square mile. The 
second specimen of 1 lb. 2J oz. was also presented to the Society by 
Mr. Glover. 
Segowlee, (also wiitten “ Soojowlee”) is. on the Katmandoo road 
seventeen miles east of Bettiah. In February, 1856, a specimen of 
14 lbs. presented by Mr. A. Grote, was exhibited to the Society, and 
it is from this that the Imperial Museum has obtained, by the kind- 
ness of the Society, a fragment weighing 2 lbs. 3 oz. and a plaster 
cast of the very remarkable external configuration of the whole 
stone. Dr. Evan MacDonnell had acquired this specimen, immedi- 
ately after the fall. As the Doctor reported, three officers of Irre- 
gular Cavalry had heard in their station a peculiar rumbling noise 
quite different from thunder. The same noise was heard, at Bettiah, 
by an Italian clergyman and many natives ; also by another Italian 
missionary six miles N. W. of Bettiah ; and it spread considerable 
terror. It was compared to the rumbling of carriages on a paved 
road, and lasted about forty seconds, the sky being meantime cloud- 
less ; the sun shining brightly, wind W. Ther. by day 44° F. (4° R.) 
All tire stones are of nearly pyramidal form, their weight varying 
between | and 4 lbs. : only one weighed 14 lbs. 
The Segowlee stone now in Vienna bears no resemblance to any 
meteorite preserved in our collections. Its colour like- that of the 
Mayence meteorite is throughout a reddish-brown. The Mayonce 
specimen discovered by Dr. Gergens, and subsequently analysed by 
