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The Editor says: spiders." cereal--that it was a cereal that had passed through a gelatinous region. That the paper-like substance of Memel may have had such an experience may be indicated in that Ehrenberg found in it gelatinous matter, which he called "nostoc." (Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., I-3-185.) Scientific American, 45-337: Fall of a substance described as "cobwebs," latter part of October, 1881, in Milwaukee, Wis., and other towns: other towns mentioned are Green Bay, Vesburge, Fort Howard, Sheboygan, and Ozaukee. The aeronautic spiders are known as "gossamer" spiders, because of the extreme lightness of the filaments that they cast out to the wind. Of the substance that fell in Wisconsin, it is said: "In all instances the webs were strong in texture and very white." "Curiously enough, there is no mention in any of the reports that we have seen, of the presence of So our attempt to divorce a possible external product from its terrestrial merger: then our joy of the prospector who thinks he's found something: The Monthly Weather Review, 26-566, quotes the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: That, upon Nov. 21, 1898, numerous batches of spider-web-like substance fell in Montgomery, in strands and in occasional masses several inches long and several inches broad. According to the writer, it was not spiders' web, but something like asbestos; also that it was phosphorescent. The Editor of the Review says that he sees no reason for doubting that these masses were cobwebs.