42 natural history. (Minerals.) [north 
following are placed in chronological order with regard to their de¬ 
scent : — 
1492. Ensisheim, in Alsace, Nov. 7th, when Emperor Maximilian, 
then king of the Romans, was on the point of engaging with the 
French army; this mass, which weighed 270 lbs., was preserved in 
the cathedral of that place, till the beginning of the French Revo¬ 
lution, when it was conveyed to the public library of Colmar. 
1723. June 22nd. Piaskowitz, near Reichstadt, in Bohemia. 
1753. July 3rd. Simultaneously at Piann, Stokow, and some other 
places in the circle of Tabor or Bechin, Bohemia ; (contains a great 
proportion of attractable iron.) 
1768. Nov. 20th. Maurkirchen, Inn circle, Austria. 
1787. Oct. 1st. Bobric, government of Chartow, Ucraine. 
1790. July 24th. Stones from Barbotan, Roquefort, and Juliac, in 
the Landes of Gascony, in which places they fell simultaneously. 
1794. June 16th. One of a dozen stones, of various weights and 
dimensions, that fell at Sienna, in Tuscany. 
1795. Dec. 13th. The celebrated Yorkshire stone, weighing 56 lbs., 
which fell near Wold Cottage, in the parish of Thwdng, East Riding 
of that, county. 
1798. March 12th. Commune of Sales, near Villefranche, in the 
department of the Rhone ; (the stone weighed about 20 lbs.) 
-- Dec. 19th. Stones fallen near the city of Benares, in the East 
Indies; (presented by Sir Joseph Banks and W. Marsden, Esq.) 
1803. April 26th. Entire and broken specimens of the stones of which 
a shower descended at Aigle, in the department of the Orne. 
1804. April 5th. Fragment of a stone which fell at Possil, near Glasgow. 
1807. June 27th. Do. of that of Timochin, in the government of 
Smolensk, Russia. 
- Dec. 14. Do. of that of Weston, in Connecticut, United States; 
(original weight about 300 lbs.) 
1808. April 19th. Casignano, near Borgo St. Domino, in the 
Duchy of Parma. 
-- May 22nd. Two of the numerous stones wdth shining black sur¬ 
face, that fell at. Stannern, in Moravia; (one of them presented by 
H. I. M. the Emperor of Austria.) 
1810. In the month of August. Tipperary, Ireland; (it contains 
quartz globules of a greenish colour, owing to oxide of nickel.) 
1811. July8th. Berlanguillas, in Old Castile, Spain; a fragment from 
one of the three or four stones fallen there. 
1812. August 5th. Chantonnav, between Nantes and La Rochelle, 
Department of the Vendee; a fragment of one weighing66 lbs. 
1813. September 10th. Adare, in the county of Limerick, Ireland. 
1814. In the month of March. In the vicinity of Wiburg, in Russian 
Finland. 
- September 5th. Agen, in the Pyrenees (Dep. de Lot-et-Ga- 
ronne). 
1815. Oct. 3rd. Chassigny, near Langres, Dep. of the Upper Marne. 
1819. June 13th. Jonsac, in the Department of the Lower Charente. 
1821. June 15th. Juvenas, Dep. of the Ardeehe. 
1825. February 10th. Nanjemoy, in Maryland. 
1825. Sept. 15th. Honolulu, Owhehee, Sandwich Islands. 
1827. May 9th. Drake’s Creek, Nashville, Tennessee. 
