182 Fretp Museum oF NATURAL History — Geo.toey, VoL. III. 
Comparison of the falls of meteorites by months as here given with 
those of falling stars and fireballs as given by W. H. Pickering * shows 
a marked difference of distribution. According to Pickering’s list 
the falling stars and fireballs are much more uniformly distributed 
through the year than are meteorites and the periods of greatest 
number of meteoric falls are from July to November. In May and 
June their number is at its minimum. Hence the record seems to 
show a difference in character between meteors and meteorites and 
furnishes per se a ground for questioning the gradation that has been 
supposed to exist between meteors and meteorites. 
Tabulation of the falls by days of the year seems to show little 
of significance. The largest number of falls for any one day is 5 
on October 13, and this is a month when the total number of falls is 
not large. Four days show 4 falls each and 158, or nearly half the 
total number, no falls at all. The days without falls seem to be scat- 
tered indiscriminately through the year, without marked grouping 
or arrangement. The days showing falls aside from those mentioned, 
have from one to three falls each without any marked grouping that 
is apparent. Such a record seems also to indicate that to refer a 
', meteorite falling on the day of a star shower to such showers 1s unsafe 
practice especially if the observations are not sufficient to assign the 
two to the same radiant. The meteorite falls are so uniformly dis- 
tributed throughout the year that the two occurrences might easily 
be coincident without being otherwise related. The full record of the 
falls by days is as follows: 
Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr.MayJuneJulyAug.Sept.Oct.Nov.Dec. 
1 Pe erg he tra ee 25 se eho I ten. I ah ara 2) eam I 
DA ay hgh: Cee cee | SR aoe a I aie fe I 15 aoe z 
Ce ree Oe 2 2 I 3 ag I 2 a, 
os id a eee I I 2 2 I lL ee I 
Sie A a aes ee I I eee | 2 I I 
Oia Oe tae 2 2 hae I I I 
YEO, PAE ay Pee 2 2 I I 
oR yratmanreor ok fr I Ww 3 I 1) Se I 
Oe ohare ate eee 2 2 2a ae 2 I 
LOne pitty aes a oes 2 3 chia eam I 2 I I I 
his aie Ree eS 2 Bh I 2 I I a I I 
se Tee a PRN OE ape gic { 2 3 I I 4 I le 2 eee 
3 le at nae 2 2 2 ao <tr I 3 5 3 
As Sea os roar 3 2 3 2 I 1h es Pe I 
DS vcs iteia ea eas I 2 I 2 I 2 To etes I 2 
1A TRE york i ah, : 3 I 2 2 I 1 
* Popular Astronomy, 1909, 17, 277. 
