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ment of meteorites. Since new falls occur yearly, data for study of 
these points are obviously constantly on theincrease. It is desirable, 
however, to make comparisons at intervalsin order that any changes 
may be discerned. At the present time the admirable catalogues of 
Wiulfing * and others, afford excellent means for the collection of such 
data. From these catalogues, with such additions and corrections 
as could be made from other sources, the writer has obtained record 
of 350 well authenticated meteorite falls of which the year and month 
are known, 327 of which the day 1s known, and 273 of which the time 
of day is known. In this number it has been sought not to include 
finds referred by residents of a locality to meteors which they had seen 
a year or more before, since the residents of most localities can, on the 
occasion of a meteorite find, recall a large meteor seen in that locality 
at some previous time. To connect this, however, without further 
reason with the meteorite found seems an unreliable method of pro- 
cedure. 
Considering the falls by years it is well known that previous to 
the nineteenth century little reliable record of meteorite falls is avail- 
able. Single falls are known for the years 1492, 1668, 1715, 1723, 
eit 700,.1773, 1785, 1787, 1790, 1794, 1795, and 1796, and two 
falls each for the years 1753, 1768,and 1798. For the early part of the 
nineteenth century the record is not very complete since during the 
that period the possibility of meteorite falls was yet much doubted. 
However, the record may as well begin with 1800. From that year 
to the present 331 falls may be accepted as well authenticated as to 
their month and year. During this period eleven years show no falls 
Meaevever. lhese years are, 1800, 1801, 1809, 1816, 1817, 1832, 
1839, 1888, 1906, 1908, and 1909. Of these the years of the present 
decade will probably have falls to their credit after a time, since the 
record of falls usually lags several years behind their occurrence. 
The largest number of falls shown in any year during the period is 
Iz in 1868. The years 1865, 1877, and 1886 show 7 each. All the 
other years show from 1 to 6 falls each. The full record by years 
beginning with 1800 1s as follows: 
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SUE ry. 5... O EG Toa. P12 phe LE RCR Ree ie 2, LOT Qugevaits 2 
BeOS ys I PRS Fah eG 3 ESTA sys, 2 Ga Tone ame I 
1 3 POCO wit. fe) Rier S rei. eons 2 TOS Te ee, © GT 
i 2 BLO; veRy. 2.5.) <2 nf OE a fe) EOgaoreqy ts <5 
a 2 BOUL ee us = °2 EOE atk ey LOA, ternal 2 
* Die Meteoriten in Sammlungen, Tubingen, 1897. 
