* Astronomy

Title: Three new Indian Meteorites: Kuttippuram, Shupiyan and Kamsagar
Author: J. Coggin. Brown

ON the 10th and 11th of April 1914, accounts of a meteorite fall appeared in various Indian newspapers. The following extract from the Calcutta "Statesman" is typical of them all. It is dated Calicut, April 10th, 1914 : "On last Monday morning (April 6th), a terrible rumbling noise in the sky was heard, and it was generally believed that it was thunder which forecasted the early approach of the south-west monsoon. Reports now received go to show that meteorite stones, weighing about a hundred pounds, had fallen immediately after the noise in Ponnani, Tirur, Trurangadi, Kuttippuram, Ottapatam, and other places in South Malabar, and that they had gone about five or six feet deep into the earth. All the stones, which so fell, are reported to have been broken to pieces, owing to the extraordinary force with which they fell."

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