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166. [p. 27] The fall of animal-matter from the sky. I'd suggest, to start with, that we'd put ourselves in the place of deep-sea fishes: How would they account for the fall of animal-matter from above? They wouldn't try-- Or it's easy enough to think of most of us as deep-sea fishes of a kind. Jour. Franklin Inst., 90-11: That, upon the 14th of February, 1870, there fell, at Genoa, Italy, according to Director Boccardo, of the Technical Institute of Genoa, and Prof. Castellani, a yellow substance. But the microscope revealed numerous globules of cobalt blue, also corpuscles of a pearly color that resembled starch. See Nature, 2- Comptes Rendus, 56-972: M. Bouis says of a substance, reddish varying to yellowish, that fell enormously and successively, or upon April 30, May 1 and May 2, in France and Spain, that it carbonized and spread the odor of charred animal matter--that it was not pollen--that in alcohol it left a residue of resinous matter. Hundreds of thousands of tons of this matter must have fallen.