ler asks us to publish the brief summary of the facts with a view, F to obtaining further information, About 10.50 a.m, on February 13 Inst a large meteorite was seen to fall in the sea about one mile south of Video Island, Chusan Archi-pelage. It came from the northwestward. At about the same time meteorite was seen from Shang. hai to the southeastward and at a small altitude. There is good reason to believe that this was not the Video meteorite but another one travelling in a southerly or a southwesterly direction, Information has now been received of a meteorite having on -he same date been seen by Chinese on the mainland to the eastward of Ningpo. There is news to this offect from two places, one is the vi lage of Paochang, about seven miles to the eastward of Ningpo, and che other is the town of Hokgi, twenty miles to the eastward of Ningpo.
Further, on the same date and the same time a meteorite was seen by a party of foreigners in a houseboat in the neighbourhood of Ningpo, but no information as to the direction of flight as seen by them has been received.
It is probable that the Ningpo meteorite was the parent one of which the Video meteorite was a fragment, The Video one must have been very large as the explosion of it, when it fell into the sea, was heard at a distance of thirty miles, and those who saw it fall at a di tance of over a mile said that it caused a great commotion in the sea, It is possible, if not probable, that the parent meteorite broke up into more than two fragments. It is possible, too, that the Ningpo meteorite fell far to the southward of where it was seen from; possibly to the southward of Nimrod Sound.
Mr. Tyler would be glad of any information that can be gathered concerning this matter. He suggests that missionaries in the district concerned should be communicated with and requested to supply any available information. Particularly is desired the direction in which it was first seen and in which it disappeared, the altitude (e.g., half way up the sky) and the date and time. If where the meteorite or a fragment of it fell could be located, it would, of course, be of great interest.
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