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 upon this earth, in October, but that, in terrestrial terms, seasonal migrations of aeronautical spiders can not be thought of, because in the tropics and in Australia, as well as in the United States and in England, such showers have occurred in October. Then something seasonal, but seasonal in an extra-mundane sense, is suggested. See the Scientific Australian, Sept., 1916—that, from October 5 to 29, 1915, an enormous fall of similar substance occurred upon a region of thousands of square miles, in Australia.

Time after time, in data that I have only partly investigated, occur declarations that, during devastations commonly known as “earthquakes,” in Chile, the sky has flamed, or that “strange illuminations” in the sky have been seen. In the ''Bui. Seis. Soc. Amer.'', for instance, some of these descriptions have been noted, and have been hushed up with the explanation that they were the reports of unscientific persons.

Latest of the great quakes in Chile—1,500 dead “recovered” in one of the cities of the Province of Atacama. New York Tribune, Nov. 15, 1922—“Again, today, severe earthquakes shook the Province of Coquimbo and other places, and strange illuminations were observed over the sea, off La Serena and Copiapo.”

Back to Crater Mountain, Arizona, for an impression—but far more impressive are similar data as to these places of Atacama and Copiapo, in Chile. In the year 1845, M. Darlu, of Valparaiso, read, before the French Academy, a paper, in which he asserted that, in the desert of Atacama, which begins at Copiapo, meteorites are strewn upon the ground in such numbers that they are met at every step. If these objects fell all at one time in this earthquake region, we have another instance conceivably of mere coincidence between the aerial and the seismic. If they fell at different times, the indications are of a fixed relationship between this part of Chile and a center somewhere in the sky of falling objects commonly called “meteorites” and of cataclysms that devastate this part of Chile with concussions commonly called “earthquakes.” There is a paper upon this subject in Science, 14–434. Here the extreme abundance asserted by M. Darlu is questioned: it is said that only thirteen of these objects were known to science. But, according to descriptions, four of them are stones, or stoneirons, differing so that, in the opinion of the writer, and not