8. On the 14th of July, 1854, a fire-ball was seen at Senftenberg. 9. On the 13th of July, 1855, a meteor, three times as large as Jupiter, was seen at Nottingham, England. 10. "One of the most celebrated falls that have occurred of late years is that which happened on the 14th of July, 1860, between two and half-past two in the afternoon, at Dhurmsala, in India. The aerolite in question fell with a most fearful noise, and terrified the inhabitants of the district not a little. Several fragments were picked up by the natives, and carried religiously away, with the impression that they had been thrown from the summit of the Himalayas by an invisible Divinity. Lord Canning forwarded some of these stones to the British Museum and to the Vienna Museum. Mr. J. R. Saunders also sent some of the stones to Europe. It appears that, soon after their fall, the stones were _intensely cold_.[15] They are ordinary earthy aerolites, having a specific gravity of 3·151, containing fragments of iron and iron pyrites; they have an uneven texture, and a pale-gray color." 11. At a quarter-past ten o'clock on the evening of July 13th, 1864, a large fire-ball was seen in New England.[16] The hour of its appearance, it will be observed, was nearly the same with that of the bolide of July 13th, 1846; and it is also worthy of remark that their _directions_ were nearly the same. The meteor of 1864 had a tail three or four degrees in length, and the body, like that of 1846, exploded with a loud report. 12. On the 8th of July, 1186, an aerolite fell at Mons, in Belgium (Quetelet's _Physique du Globe_, p. 320). A forward motion of the node, somewhat less than that observed in the rings of November and August, would give a correspondence of dates between the falls of 1186, 1847, and 1860. With the exception of the last, which is doubtful, these phenomena all occurred within a period of 67 years. THE EPOCH OF NOVEMBER 29. It has been stated that in different years meteoric stones have fallen about the 29th of November. One of the most recent aerolites which can be assigned to this epoch is that which fell on the 30th of November, 1850, at Shalka, in Bengal. It may be mentioned, as at least a coincidence, that the earth passes the approximate intersection of her orbit with that of Biela's comet at the date of this epoch. Do other bodies besides the two Biela comets move in the same ellipse? It is worthy of remark that two star showers have been observed at this date: one in China, A.D. 930, the other in Europe, 1850 (see Quetelet's Catalogue). It is certainly important that the meteors of this epoch should be carefully studied. CHAPTER V. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF METEORIC STONES--DO AEROLITIC FALLS OCCUR MORE FREQUENTLY BY DAY THAN BY NIGHT?--DO METEORITES, BOLIDES, AND THE MATTER OF ORDINARY SHOOTING-STARS, COEXIST IN THE SAME RINGS?