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corpuscles-- Of course: A note: Kentucky. a comet. At Giessen, Germany, in 1821, according to the Report of the British Association, 5-2, fell a rain of a peach-red color. In this rain were flakes of a hyacinthine tint. It is said that this substance was organic: we are told that it was pyrrhine. But distinctly enough, we are told of one red rain that it was of corpuscular composition--red snow, rather. It fell, March 12, 1876, near the Crystal Palace, London (Year Book of Facts, 1876-89; Nature, 13- 414) . As to the "red snow" of polar and mountainous regions, we have no opposition, because that "snow" has never been seen to fall from the sky: it is a growth of micro-organisms, or of a "protococcus," that spreads over snow that is on the ground. This time nothing is said of "sand from the Sahara." It is said of the red matter that fell in London, March 12, 1876, that it was composed of That they looked like "vegetable cells." That nine days before had fallen the red substance--flesh--whatever it may have been--of Bath County, | think that a super-egotist, vast, but not so vast as it had supposed, had refused to move to one side for We summarize our general super-geographical expressions: Gelatinous regions, sulphurous regions, frigid and tropical regions: