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H. G. FOKDHAM—THE METEOK1TE OE 1887. 
North Inch of Perth (Perthshire) 
Aldsworth, near Cirencester (Gloucestershire)* 
Killeter (co. Tyrone) 
Dundrum (co. Tipperary) 
Bowton, near Wellington (Shropshire)! 
Middlesbrough (Yorkshire)! 
date of fall May, 17, 1830. 
Aug. 4, 1835. 
April 29, 1844. 
Aug. 12, 1865. 
April 20, 1876. 
March 14,1881. 
“ On Periodic Meteors,” by Professor 
* Beport of the British Association ’ for 
Baden Powell, F.B.S. 
1847, ‘ Transactions of 
Sections,’ p. 15 (including a Table of Meteor Showers from 1841 to 
1846). 
“ A Catalogue of Observations of Luminous Meteors,” by Professor 
Baden Powell, P.B.S. (in continuation of the Table in the pre¬ 
ceding paper). Continued annually in the ‘ Beports of the British 
Association’ for 1848 to 1859. 
“ Beports of the Committee on Observations of Luminous Meteors.” 
c Beports of the British Association ’ for 1860 to 1881. These annual 
Beports are in continuation of those of Professor Baden Powell (who 
died June 11, 1860). 
“A Catalogue of Meteorites and Fireballs from a.d. 2 to a.d. 
1860,” by B. P. Greg, F.G.S., ‘ Beport of the British Association’ 
for 1861, p. 48, with supplements,—I, p. 93; II, ibid, for 1867, 
p. 414 ; and III, ibid, for 1869, p. 282. 
“ On the Fall of an Aerolite near Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, on 
March 14th, 1881,” by Professor A. S. Herschel, F.B.A.S. ‘ Brit. 
Assoc. Beport’ for 1881, p. 296. 
“A Chapter in the History of Meteorites,” by Walter Flight, 
D.Sc., published in parts in the ‘ Geological Magazine,’ New Series, 
Dec. II, vol. ii (January to December, 1875). A fall of stones near 
Wantage, 9th April, 1628, is recorded (p. 266) from Wallington’s 
‘Historical Notices,’ vol. i, p. 13. The account is reprinted in the 
‘Meteorological Magazine,’ vol. xxii, p. 169. 
“ On the Meteoric Iron which fell near Cabin Creek, Johnson 
County, Arkansas, March 27th, 1886.” ‘American Journal of 
Science,’ vol. xxxiii, June, 1887 ; and ‘Nature,’ Dec. 15th, 1887, 
p. 159. 
* See ‘ Brit. Assoc. Beport ’ for 1857, p. 140. 
t See ibid, for 1876, p. 166. 
X See ibid, for 1881, p. 296. 
