_Do aerolites fall more frequently by day than by night?_--Mr. Alexander S. Herschel, of Collingwood, England, has with much care and industry collected and collated the known facts in regard to bolides and aerolites. One result of his investigations is that a much greater number of meteoric stones are observed to fall by day than by night. From this he infers that, for the most part, the orbits in which they move are _interior_ to that of the earth. The fact, however, is obviously susceptible of a very different explanation--an explanation quite similar to that of the frequent falls in particular districts. _At night the number of observers is incomparably less; and hence many aerolites escape detection._ There would seem to be no cause, reason, or antecedent probability of these falls being more frequent at one hour than another in the whole twenty-four. _The coexistence of meteorites, bolides, and the matter of shooting-stars in the same rings?_--It has been stated on a previous page that several aerolite epochs are coincident with those of shooting-stars. Is the number of such cases sufficient to justify the conclusion that the correspondence of dates is not accidental? We will consider, I. The Epoch of November 11th-14th. 1. 1548, November 6th. A very large detonating meteor was seen at Mansfield, Thuringia, at two o'clock in the morning. The known rate of movement of the node brings this meteor within the November epoch. 2. 1624, November 7th. A large fire-ball was seen at Tubingen. The motion of the node brings this also within the epoch. 3. 1765, November 11th. A bright meteoric light was observed at Frankfort. 4. 1791, November 11th. A large meteor was seen at Göttingen and Lilienthal. 5. 1803, November 13th. A fire-ball, twenty-three miles high, was seen at London and Edinburgh. 6. 1803, November 13th. A splendid meteor was seen at Dover and Harts. 7. 1808, November 11th. A fire-ball was seen in England. 8. 1818, November 13th. A fire-ball was seen at Gosport. 9. 1819, November 13th. A fire-ball was seen at St. Domingo. 10. 1820, November 12th. A large detonating meteor was seen at Cholimschk, Russia. 11. 1822, November 12th. A fire-ball appeared at Potsdam. 12. 1828, November 12th. A meteor was seen in full sunshine at Sury, France. 13. 1831, November 13th. A fire-ball was seen at Bruneck. 14. 1831, November 13th. A brilliant meteor was seen in the North of Spain. 15. 1833, November 12th. A fire-ball was seen in Germany. 16. 1833, November 13th. A meteor, two-thirds the size of the moon, was seen during the great meteoric shower in the United States. 17. 1834, November 13th. A large fire-ball was seen in North America. 18. 1835, November 13th. Several aerolites fell near Belmont, Department de l'Ain, France. 19. 1836, November 11th. An aerolitic fall occurred at Macao, Brazil. 20. 1837, November 12th. A remarkable fire-ball was seen in England.