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And: "They were all dead and dry." (Dr. Buist, Living Age, 52-186.) India is far away: about 1830 was long ago. Nature, Sept. 19, 1918-46: A correspondent writes, from the Dove Marine Laboratory, Cuttercoats, England, that, at Hindon, a suburb of Sunderland, Aug. 24, 1918, hundreds of small fishes, identified as sand eels, had fallen-- Again the small area: about 60 by 30 yards. The fall occurred during a heavy rain that was accompanied by thunder--or indications of disturbance aloft--but by no visible lightning. The sea is close to Hindon, but if you try to think of these fishes having described a trajectory in a whirlwind from the ocean, consider this remarkable datum: That, according to witnesses, the fall upon this small area occupied ten minutes. | cannot think of a clearer indication of a direct fall from a stationary source. "The fish were all dead, and indeed stiff and hard, when picked up, immediately after the occurrence." By all of which | mean that we have only begun to pile up our data of things that fall from a stationary source overhead: we'll have to take up the subject from many approaches before our acceptance, which seems quite as rigorously arrived at as ever has been a belief, can emerge from the accursed.