JUNE, 1910. METEORITE StupiEs IJ] — FARRINGTON. 181 
On compiling the results it is found that the months of May and 
June exhibit the greatest number of falls. The number for Novem- 
ber falls below the average and that for August rises only slightly 
above. The evidence from this record is therefore that meteorites 
are not related to the best known star showers. It is fair to presume 
that the record by months will be somewhat influenced by the times 
that observers are most abroad. Most of the observations of me- 
teorite falls are made in the northern hemisphere and in this hem- 
isphere observers are more likely to be out of doors and hence more 
likely to observe the fall of meteorites in the summer than in the 
winter months. The record shows that as a whole the number of falls 
recorded zs less for the winter than the summer months, yet the 
number of falls cannot be influenced by that alone since the high 
record for May and June drops to nearly half that number in July. 
Further the months of August, September and October are equally 
favorable as regards weather for observations of meteorite falls with 
those of April, May and June, yet the latter period much excels the 
former innumber of falls. The excess of fallsin May and June must, 
therefore, be due to other causes than favorable conditions of ob- 
servation and seems to indicate that in the portion of the earth’s orbit , 
passed through in these months there is an unusual number of me- 
teorites. The full table for the different months is as follows: 
Jan-—Feb. Mar. April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. 
eee s) 827-44 45° 23°« 300 30 2H 24) 21 =350 
This record is shown graphically in the accompanying diagram, Fig. 2. 
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Fig. 2. Curve of meteorite falls by months. 
