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H. G. EORDHAM-THE METEORITE 
east and west from near Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, to TJpper 
Lamborne on the western border of Oxfordshire, south to Watford 
and Beading, and north to St. Neots, Bisely in the north of Bed¬ 
fordshire, Sulgrave in Northamptonshire, and an isolated point 
near Leamington; the sound being accompanied in many places by 
a movement of the air of sufficient force to cause windows to 
rattle and light objects to move. Bury St. Edmunds and Upper 
Lamborne are on an E.N.E. and W.S.W. line about 105 miles 
apart. 
The sound was heard in 153 distinct localities, distributed 
amongst the following 11 counties:—Suffolk, 1; Essex, 6; Cam¬ 
bridgeshire, 19; Huntingdonshire, 3; Bedfordshire, 34; Hertford¬ 
shire, 43; Northamptonshire, 2; Buckinghamshire, 16; Warwick¬ 
shire, 1; Oxfordshire, 15; and Berkshire, 13. 
Erom Hertford, and from Solihull near Birmingham, about the 
same time, a meteor was seen : from Hertford passing towards the 
westward, from a point about N.E. to a point about W.N.W., and 
from Solihull at a point reported to be due S. of that place. 
Elsewhere the foggy state of the atmosphere appears to have 
prevented the meteorite from being seen. 
In the ‘Meteorological Magazine,’ December, 1887,* Mr. Symons 
has collected much information under the title “A Bolide ex¬ 
ploded over Central England,” and the subject is further noticed 
in subsequent numbers of the ‘ Magazine.’f I am much indebted to 
Mr. Symons for allowing me to make use of the materials collected 
by him. I have also to thank the editors of those local newspapers 
in which I have been allowed to publish appeals for notes and 
particulars of the effects of the sound of the meteorite, and those 
correspondents who have responded to my requests for such infor¬ 
mation. In particular I have to express my obligation to Mr. 
William Munday, of Baldock, who has' supplied me with many 
notes, principally from North Herts and South Beds. 
The following letters, paragraphs, etc., are arranged by counties, 
the counties themselves being taken as nearly as possible in the 
order in which the meteorite or the sound arising from it reached 
them, and the particular localities referred to in each county being 
arranged from north to south. Notes and insertions in brackets are 
made where they are necessary or desirable to make the context 
intelligible, or to elucidate points referred to. The statements of 
the two observers who saw the meteorite itself have been placed 
at the head of the observations, as being of special importance. 
When two or more communications, referring to the same locality, 
have been received from the same individual, they are placed in 
order of date, the signature and address being appended to the last 
only. All dates of letters, etc., are omitted, except in reference 
to newspaper paragraphs. 
* Symons’s ‘ Monthly Meteorological Magazine,’ vol. xxii, pp. 161-169. 
t Ibid , vol. xxii, pp. 177, 178 ; and vol. xxiii, pp. 20-23, and 48. See also a 
paper “ On the Detonating Bolide of November 20th, 1887,” by Gr. J. Symons, 
F.B.S., * Proceedings of the Boyal Society,’ vol. xliii, p. 263. 
