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1911


1911:


1911 / about / Sun “minimum time. [IX; 1853. (Ref.???)]


1911 / 8 comets. [IX; 1854. (Ref.???) (Confirm, and identify.)]


1911 / Jupiter, except June-July and Dec, in Libra. / Dec, in Scorp. [IX; 1855. (Confirm.)]


1911 / Saturn in Aries to May, 1912. [IX; 1856. (Confirm.)]


1911 / H.H. / Kingston, England / See 1909. [D; 450. See: 1909, (D: 262).]


1911 / Boys / Wimbledon / disap? [D; 451. (Ref.???)]


1911 / About this time James Brandon, occultist, lived in Nashville, Tenn? / See Dec 21, 1931. [D; 452. See: (1931 Dec 21).]


1911 / Polt / Ashfordsby Rectory, Leicestershire / See Aug 13, 1913. [D; 453. See: See: 1913 Aug 23, (D; 686).]


1911 / Mrs John Bennett, Gloversville, N.Y. / See May 23, 1914. [D; 454. See: (1914 May 23).]


1911/ ab. Jan 1 / Large hailstones killed 20 natives at Molepolole, Bechuanaland. / Lloyd's W. News—8-21-2. [IX; 1857. (Lloyds' Weekly News, January 8, 1911, p. 21 c. 2.)]


1911 Jan / Poison fog / Belgium / See Ciel et Terre, Nov., 1913, article by Bertyn. [D; 455. Bertyn, Félix. “Action Morbide du Brouillard.” Ciel et Terre, 34 (1913): 343-346. ("Scores die, 300 stricken by poison fog in Belgium, panic grips countryside." New York Times, December 6, 1930, p. 1 c.1-2, and, p. 11 c. 1-2.) ("Scientist thinks some one has losed poison gas." New York Telegram, December 6, 1930, p.2 c.2-3.) ("Poison fogs and foggy minds." New York Herald Tribune, December 19, 1930, p. 22 c. 2.)]


1911 Jan / Poison fog, Belgium, like Dec 5, 1930. / See Dec 5, marked (+). [D; 456. See: (1930 Dec 5).]


1911 Jan. 1 / Brusa, Asiatic Turkey / strong shock / Nature 85-314. [IX; 1858. (Nature, 85-314.)]


1911 Jan 1 / 10:25 a.m. / Big q. recorded / Isle of Wight. [IX; 1859. (Ref.???)]


1911 Jan 2 / 12:21 a.m. / q at and near Chicago / Bull-Amer 2/93. [IX; 1860. "Seismological Notes." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2 (1912): 93-95, at 93.]


1911 Jan 3 / 21 h, 15 m / at Libourne (gironde) / Met size of Venus from the north-north-west to S.S.E. / appeared 9 h + 50° / disap 6 h, 30 m50 / Bull Soc A. de F 1911-331. [IX; 1861. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1911-331.)]


1911 Jan 3 / evening / Severe q somewhere recorded. / Washington, New Orleans, St. Louis / Trib 4-8-3 / q was in Russian Turkestan. / Trib 5-16-3. [IX; 1862. (New York Tribune, January 4, 1911, p. 8 c. 3; not found here.) “Quake Kills Hundreds.” New York Tribune, January 5, 1911, p. 16 c. 3.]


1911 Jan 3 / [LT], 6-a / 3-8-a / 4-10-d / 5-19-f / 6-10-e / 13-8-a / 14-8-d / 20-8-b / (23)-3-d / Nova. [IX; 1863. (London Times, 1911, January:  3-6-a / 3-8-a / 4-10-d / 5-19-f / 6-10-e / 13-8-a / 14-8-d / 20-8-b / (23)-3-d.)]


1911 Jan. 3 / Evening (6 p.m.) Washington = 1 p.m. W. Bromwich. [IX; 1864. Apparently, Fort erred by subtracting the five-hour difference between Washington, D.C., and West Bromwich, (instead of adding); as: Evening (6 p.m.) Washington = 11 p.m. W. Bromwich. See: 1911 Jan 4, (IX; 1870).]


1911 Jan. 4 / 1:25 a.m. / or ab. Jan 3, 11 p.m. (Greenwich Mean Time) / Violent q / Russian Turkestan / Nature 85-342. [IX; 1865. (Nature, 85-342.) See: 1911 Jan. 3, (IX; 1864).]


1911 Jan 4 / bet 4 and 5 a.m. / ab midnight, Greenwich / Towns in Djarkent destroyed by quake. / D. Mail 5-5-6 / Hundreds killed. 6thstill continuing. / 7-5-3 / Russian Turkestan. [IX; 1866. (London Daily Mail, January 5, 1911, p. 5 c. 6.) (London Daily Mail, January 7, 1911, p. 5 c. 3.)]


1911 Jan 4 / 5:25 a.m. / Serious q. registered, Colombo. / Ceylon Observer, 5th. [IX; 1867. (Ceylon Observer, January 5, 1911.)]


1911 Jan 4 / BO / Veernyi, Russian Turkestan / “terrific” earthquake / D. Express, 5th / The shocks continued. Morning of 9th, a still more violent shock. [IX; 1868. (London Daily Express, January 5, 1911.)]


1911 Jan 4 / 1:25 a.m. / Chief shock of severe q's in Russian Turkestan. At Tashkent at 4:23 a.m. / L.T. 5-5-d. [IX; 1869. (London Times, January 5, 1911, p. 5 c. 4.)]


1911 Jan 4 (?) / 1:25 a.m. / or 11 p.m. (?), Jan 3, G.M.T. / q / Russian Turkestan / Nature 85-342 / At West Bromwich, first tremors recorded at 11:35. / See Jan., 1910; Jan., 1909. [IX; 1870. (Nature, 85-342.) See: 1909 Jan 20 and 21, (IX; 1228); 1909 Jan 22, (IX; 1230); 1909 Jan 23, (IX: 1231, 1233, 1234, 1236, 1238, 1239, 1240, & 1241); 1910 Jan 22, (IX: 1515, 1516, 1517, 1520, 1521, & 1522); and, 1909 Jan 3, (IX; 1864 & 1865).]


1911 Jan. 4 / Polt / Telegraph tower / Dale, Georgia / [ttypescript] / Proc. S.P.R., vol. 25. [D; 457. ("The Dale Tower, Georgia, Case. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 25: 404???)]


1911 Jan 4 / Polt / Dale, Georgia / Proc SPR 25/404. [D; 458. ("The Dale Tower, Georgia, Case. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 25: 404???)]


1911 Jan 5 / Dispatch dated from Johannesburg, in D. Express, 6-1-6 / That at Molepolele, Bechuanaland, had fallen huge hailstones that had killed 20 men. [IX; 1871. (London Daily Express, January 6, 1911, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1911 Jan. 5 / B.A. Standard / Nothing / B. Ayres. [IX; 1872.]


(1911) Jan 5 / [LT], 5-d / q / Great Britain. [IX; 1873. (London Times, January 5, 1911, p. 5 c. 4.)]


1911 Jan 5 / 7:05 p.m. / Rio de Janeiro / Sky covered with clouds. Suddenly the obscurity disappeared. The sky shone a bright yellow–—then came a sparkling red fog. Sky covered again. / Bull Soc Astro de F 1911-285. [IX; 1874. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1911-285.)]


1911 Jan 6 / Tagnet invisible. / See Feb. 15, 1910. [IX; 1875. See: (1910 Feb 15).]


1911 Jan 6 / morning / Moulins (Allies) / 2 shocks / 20 minutes apart / LT 7-5-b. [IX; 1876. (London Times, January 7, 1911, p. 5 c. 2.)]


[The following three notes were folded together by Fort. IX: 1877 to 1879.]


1911 Jan 6 / BO / Change from this other ref. / D. Express, 10-1-7 / In the valley of Emmenthal, Switzerland, fell a greyish substance like ashes. It turned black, and snow as black as soot fell to a depth of fifteen inches. [IX; 1877. (London Daily Express, January 10, 1911, p. 1 c. 7.)]


1911 Jan. 14 / before 14th / (B. rain) / Cor dating Jan 14, from Berne, writes (Morning Post, Jan. 20) that recently in the Lower Emmen Valley, Canton Berne,, black snow had fallen upon “a limited area” and had caused a great deal of interest in Switzerland. But he says that the water from this snow was not black; so he says all a mistake that black snow fell. He says that rain fell upon snow form[ing] a crust and light reflecting back with great intensity gave the illusion of a dark appearance. / (Of course this be a common phe and not apply to a “limited area”.) / D-31. [IX: 1878.1, 1878.2, 1878.3. (London Morning Post, January 20, 1911; not at BNA.) "Notes." Nature, 85 (February 2, 1911): 448-453, at 451. The note copies information from page 31 of The Book of the Damned. Fort marked "X" next to this passage in his copy, (probably was due to the date of January 20 being identified as the date of the snow fall rather than the date when the London Morning Post reported its occurrence of a recent black rain in the Lower Emmen Valley).  “Black Snow.” Leeds Mercury, January 11, 1911, p. 3 c. 5. “The curious phenomenon of red snow, which is occasionally found in spring at the head of glaciers in the Alps, is well known to mountaineers, but black snow has seldom been seen. A fall black snow, however, has just occurred in the Lower Emmen Valley, above the Lake of Brienz, says the Lucerne correspondent of the London 'Evening News.'” “The whole valley and the surrounding mountains are covered several inches deep with a greyish-black snow, which fell on top of the deep white snow, beneath which the country was already lying. So far, no one has been able to explain this extraordinary phenomenon. It is thought that the wind may have carried volcanic ashes from Mount Etna, which has recently been active.” “There is nothing whatever in the nature of factory smoke nor even a large village in or near the Emmen Valley which could possibly cause this discoloration. Even it there were factories and large towns, they could not soil such a large expanse ot snow. Moreover, snow which had lain for a week in a large city, absorbing all the soots ana smuts, would not be so black as that which has fallen in this remote pastoral valley.” Another such explanation of “black snow” in Switzerland would be the appearance of the larvae of Telephorus fuscus, which fell with snow at Obsee zu Lungern, in 1902. Brandstetter, Josef Leopold. “Naturhistorische Literatur und Naturchronik der fünf Orte für die Jahre 1902 bis1905.” Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Luzern, 5 (1907), 1-95, at 11. “Feb. 10. Montag nachmittag fiel in Obsee zu Lungern schwarzer Schnee. Derselbe rührte von lauter lebenden, etwa 1-2 cm langen schwarzen 'Würmchen' her. Es sind dies Larven vom Fliegenkäfer Telephorus fuscus, Schneewürmer, die sich bei warmer Witterung durch den Schnee hindurch auf dessen Oberfläche emporarbeiten.” See: 1849 Jan. 24, (II; 1270), and, 1856 Jan 30, (II; 1912).]


1911 Jan / BO / B. snow / Switz / For another account, see NY Sun, Jan 29-3-6. [IX; 1879. (New York Sun, January 29, 1911, p. 3 c. 6.)]


1911 Jan 6 / Shocks again in Turkestan. / Slight shocks, Grenoble and Algeria. / L.T. 9-5-e. [IX; 1880. (London Times, January 9, 1911, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1911 Jan 8 / Shocks / alegeria and Grenoble / L.T. 9-5-e. [IX; 1881. (London Times, January 9, 1911, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1911 Jan 9 / 9 a.m. / Another violent shock / Turkestan / L.T. 10-5-e. [IX; 1882. (London Times, January 10, 1911, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1911 Jan. 9 / near Waterford / 7:35 p.m. / from radiant of the Quadrantids / brilliant fireball / Nature 85-372. [IX; 1883. (Nature, 85-372.)]


1911 Jan 9 / 9 a.m. / Severe shock / Turkestan / D. Mail 10-7-3. [IX; 1884. (London Daily Mail, January 10, 1911, p. 7 c. 3.)]


1911 Jan 9 / 7 h, 35 m / Great met / Waterford / Nature 85-372. [IX; 1885. (Nature, 85-372.)]


1911 Jan 9 / Eastern Morning News (Hull) / That Mrs Copperwheat, Park-square, Luton, had dreamed that she had been seen Thomas Cook Webdale, leader of the Luton East End Mission, in the Mission Hall, seated, with head bowed in a way that alarmed her. With assistance of police, the hall was enetered, and found that Mr. W. had hanged himself. [D: 459.1, 459.2. (Eastern Morning News, Hull, January 9, 1911.)]


1911 Jan 9 and 10 / Hurricane / Enormous damage / Gulf of Mexico / N.Y. Sun 11-1-6. [IX; 1886. (New York Sun, January 11, 1911, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1911 Jan 12-13 / midnight / Violent shock and loud rumbling in R. Turkestan. Several hundred killed. / D. Mail 14-5-6. [IX; 1887. (London Daily Mail, January 14, 1911, p. 5 c. 6.)]


1911 Jan 12-13 / Vyernyi / another violent shock / midnight / D. Express 14-1-3. [IX; 1888. (London Daily Express, January 14, 1911, p. 1 c. 3.)]


1911 Jan 12-13 / midnight / Severe shock / Rusian Turkestan / LT 14-8-e. [IX; 1889. (London Times, January 14, 1911, p. 8 c. 5.)]


1911 Jan 17 / Bolide / France / Bull Soc Astro de F. [IX; 1890. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, ca. 1911.)]


1911 Jan 19 / 9 p.m. / Bolide / Morteau (Doubs) / Bull So A de F '11-148. [IX; 1891. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1911-148.)]


[1911 Jan 19. Wrong date. See: 1891 Jan 11, (IX; 1892).]


1911 Jan 22 / 3:55 p.m. / Jalawar, India / detonating meteorlike thunder / Jour. Astro Soc. India, Feb., 1911. [IX; 1893. (Journal of the Astronomical Society of India, February, 1911.)]


1911 Jan 22 / Tonk, Rajputana, India / meteite / R—Ap 18 '38 / See Nov. 24. [IX; 1894. Refer to: 1838 Ap. 18, (I; 2306). Brown, John Coggin. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Meteorites Comprised in the Collection of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta (On August 1st, 1914)." Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, 43 (1916): part 2, 149-287, at  . See: (Nov. 24).]


1911 Jan 22 ? / ? / near village of Ferrare (Sicily?) / Metite / This may been year 1910? / Bull Astro de F. 1911-411. [IX; 1895. Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1911-411.)]


1911 Jan 22 / 4 p.m. / Vesuvius active. Column of smoke from. / D. Mail 23-7-6. [IX; 1896. (London Daily Mail,, January 23, 1911, p. 7 c. 6.)]


1911 Jan 22 / D-75 / Carbonaceous met / Chabra, India / Jour. Astro Soc India 1/94, 216. [IX; 1897. The note copies information from page 75 of The Book of the Damned. (Journal of the Astronomical Society of India, 1-94, 216.)]


1911 Jan 25 / 7 h., 5 m. p.m. / Birmingham / great met from near Aldebaran / Nature 85-453 / See Feb. 10. [IX; 1898. (Nature, 85-453.) See: (Feb. 10).]


1911 Jan 25 / Comet / 8:45 a.m. / Slight shock at Tientsin. / Night of 26th, “A brilliant comet appeared slightly west of the zenith.” / L.T. 27-7-d. [IX; 1899. (London Times, January 27, 1911, p. 7 c. 4.)]


1911 Jan 26 / Nothing of comet in North China Herald. [IX; 1900.]


1911 Jan 27 / D. Mail, 3-7 / Man at St Ives (Hants) who could give no account of himself. [D; 460. (London Daily Mail, January 27, 1911, p. 3 c. 7.)]


1911 Jan. 28 / great tidal wave / Eruption volc Taal, Philippines. / Nature 85-449. [IX; 1901. (Nature, 85-449.)]


1911 Jan 29 / early morn / Ab 400 miles east of Sandy Hook, snowstorm and lightning and ball of fire considered a meteor—not at the time of the lightning—seen from White Star liner Arabic. / NY Sun, Feb 1-1-4. [IX; 1902. (New York Sun, February 1, 1911, p. 1 c. 4.)]


1911 Jan 29 / bet 2 and 3 a.m. / Shocks /Ogdensburg, N.Y. / N.Y. Sun 31-3-4. [IX; 1903. (New York Sun, January 31, 1911, p. 3 c. 4.)]


1911 Jan. 30 / Eruption of the Taal Vol (Luzon), Philippines. / details / Nature 86-190. [IX; 1904. (Nature, 86-190.)]


1911 Jan 30 / Dispatch so dated from Manila. Disastrous eruption and tidal wave from Mt. Taal, Luzon. 5 villages destroyed. / D. Express 31-1-4. [IX; 1905. (London Daily Express, January 31, 1911, p. 1 c. 4.)]


1911 Feb. / Noted / 3 cases, Feb, 1911, tame wolves bite people. [D; 461. (Ref.???)]


1911 Feb 1 / noon / 40 tons of dynamite exploded on Jersey City waterfront. Shocks felt far. [IX; 1906. (Ref.???)]


1911 Feb 1 / Communipaw explosion / Action for damages—no liability. No saying what cause was. / Trib, March 22-1-2, 1912. [IX; 1907. “No Explosion Damages.” New York Tribune, March 22, 1912, p. 1 c. 2.]


1911 Feb 1 / Communipaw, N.J. Explosion / Dynamite. [IX; 1908. (Ref.???)]


1911 Feb. 3 / 6:25 a.m. / Great met at Leeds. / Nature 85-475. [IX; 1909. (Nature, 85-475.)]


1911 Feb. 4 / After interval of rest, again Mt. Asama, Japan, in eruption. / North China Herald, Feb 17, p. 340. [IX; 1910. (North China Herald, February 17, 1911, p. 340.)]


1911 Feb. 6 / Ishpeming, near Marquette, Mich. / Powder House blows up. / Trib 7-1-2. [IX; 1911. “Explosion Kills Ten.” New York Tribune, February 7, 1911, p. 1 c. 2.]


1911 Feb 8 / [LT], 15-c / Large met. [IX; 1912. (London Times, February 8, 1911, p. 15 c. 3.)]


1911 Feb 10 / See Jan. 25. / Besancon / 19 h., 28 m / Bolide from Aldabaran exploded below Rigel. / Bull Soc Astro de F 1911-129. [IX; 1913. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1911-129.)]


1911 Feb 10 / See Feb 10, 1910. [IX; 1914. See: 1910 Feb 10, (IX; 1537).]


1911 Feb / 2 falls of meties in S Africa reported in the S.A. newspapersone said to have set fire to a barn. / One in Natalone in Transvaal. / E Mec 93-540. [IX; 1915. (English Mechanic, 93-540.)]


1911 Feb. 11 / D. Express, 5-3 / Loss of memory / man at Epsom / D. Express 11-5-3. [D; 462. (London Daily Express, February 11, 1911, p. 5 c. 3.)]


1911 Feb 19 / From point over English Channel to Oldenburg, Hanover, brilliant meteor. / Nature 85-54. [IX; 1916. (Nature, 85-54.)]


1911 Feb 19 / 9 p.m. / Met at Putney / 15 seconds / Nature 85-553. [IX; 1917. (Nature, 85-553.)]


1911 Feb 19 / Lloyd's announcement of seven maritime disasters. / F.T. del Marmol, E. Mec. 94-418. [D; 463. (English Mechanic, 94-418.)]


1911 Feb 20 / 7 p.m. / Putney, Surrey / 3 flashes at intervals of 2 or 3 minutes. / Symons 46-74. [IX; 1918. (Meteorological Magazine, 46-74.)]


1911 Feb 20 / Monastir, Turkey / q / Trib 21-3-2. [IX; 1919. “Earthshock in Monastir.” New York Tribune, February 21, 1911, p. 3 c. 2.]


1911 Feb 23 / Belleville, N.J. / late afternoon / Explosion, fireworks factory, 3rd time in 3 years. / Trib 24-1-2. [IX; 1920. “Explosion Kills Three.” New York Tribune, February 24, 1911, p. 1 c. 2.]


1911 Feb. 23 / Bradford / Girl whirled / Ch-10 / (1911). [D; 464. “Girl Blown High By Gale.” New York Tribune, February 24, 1911, p. 1 c. 2.]


1911 March 1 / Dull red obj seen near Venus time when, ac to Notes “E Mec”, no bright star near Venus. / E Mec 93/129. [IX; 1921. (English Mechanic, 93-129.)]


1911 March 6 / Tagnet invisible. / See Feb 15, 1910. [IX; 1922. See: (1910 Feb 15).]


1911 March 6 / Bodies same time / D. Express, 1-4 / In a Warsaw park found a woman's head. At same time police in Omsk reported a headless body shipped by rail from Warsaw. But the headless body was of a man, [D; 465. (London Daily Express, March 6, 1911, p. 1 c. 4.)]


1911 Mar. 7 / Dark / Louisville, Ky. / (D-221). ** [IX; 1923. The note copies information from page 221 of The Book of the Damned. Walz, Ferdinand J. "A Pall of Darkness, at Louisville, Ky., and Surrounding Districts." Monthly Weather Review, 39 (no. 3; March 1911): 345-347.]


1911 March 9 / Pleasant Prairie, Wis / great powder and dynamite explosion / 8:22 p.m. / Trib 11-16-3 / 10-1-5 / Felt 100 miles away. [IX; 1924. “Powder Explosion Wipes Out A Town.” New York Tribune, March 10, 1911, p. 1 c. 5. “May Oust Powder Plants.” New York Tribune, March 11, 1911, p. 16 c. 3.]


1911 March 11 / night / Great fire at Oil Works, Brooklyn. / Trib 12-1-3. [IX; 1925. “One Dead; Many Hurt in Big Oil Blaze.” New York Tribune, March 12, 1911, p. 1 c. 3.]


1911 March 17 / [LT], 10-c / q's in N of England. [IX; 1926. (London Times, March 17, 1911, p. 10 c. 3.)]


1911 March 21 / Earthquakes in Spain and hurricanes in Brazil. / F.T. del Marmol / E. Mec, 94-418. [IX; 1927. (English Mechanic, 94-418). Fernando Tarrida del Mármol.]


1911 March 23 / [LT], 13-e / Myst. of a lonely house. [D; 466. (London Times, March 23, 1911, p. 13 c. 5.)]


1911 March 24 / Explosion of dynamite at Swadlincote, Derbyshire. Houses 2 miles away shaken. / D. Mail 25-5-2. [IX; 1928. (London Daily Mail, March 25, 1911, p. 5 c. 2.)]


1911 March 25 / India / met E to W / Jour Astro Soc India 1/147. [IX; 1929. (Journal of the Astronomical Society of India, 1-147.)]


1911 March 28 , about / Great fire, NY / 29, Capital at Albany. [IX; 1930. (Ref.???)]


1911 March 28 / q. / also at 9:52 p.m., local time / (See Ap. 18.) / q / Kerman, Persia / BA 1911-52. [IX; 1931. (BA 1911-52.) See: (Ap. 18).]


1911 March 29 / “The great rush of birds” told of in the Irish Naturalist of June. Said that for a week or more afterward the newspapers told of the phenomenon. “A tremendous night of curlew cries over Dublin.” / At Dungarvan, “The whole air seemed one mass of small birds.” / Many species. [IX: 1932.1, 1932.2. Barrington, Richard Manliffe. “The Great Rush of Birds on the Night of March 29th-30th, As Observed in Ireland.” Irish Naturalist, 20 (June 1911): 97-110. Coward, Thomas Alfred. The Migration of Birds. Cambridge: University Press, 1912, 111-112. “On the night of the 31st I received news of this visitation, and later found that similar movements, without disaster, were noticed on the north coast of Wales and in Cheshire. On the nights of the 30th and 31st birds in large numbers passed over Bangor and the Menai Straits; amongst them were golden plover, and the next day these birds with fieldfares and redwings were more abundant than before in the mid-Cheshire fields. On the night of April 2nd, from dusk to midnight, a large passage occurred over Mere in Cheshire, where curlew, golden plover, oyster-catcher and wild duck were recognised by their calls, and at the same time a passage was observed at Old Colwyn on the Welsh coast. I do not even suggest that these were the same birds which passed over south-eastern Ireland, but their presence within so short a time, indicates the volume of the movement.”]


[The following three notes were folded together by Fort. IX: 1933-1935.]


1911 March 29 / Told in Countryside Notes, 2-195—vast migration of many species of birds—at 10 and 11 p.m.—coast of S. Ireland—and also S.W. England. Picked up exhausted in Ireland in streets of Waterford, Clinmel and Limerick, 70 miles from Waterford. / Phe almost as marked in Wiltshire, England. [IX: 1933.1, 1933.2. (Countryside Monthly, 2-195.)]


1911 Ap 1 / Birds / D. Express of, 1-4 / “Mysterious panic, born of some unknown catastrophe of the skies” in south of Ireland, In Carlow on 2 consecutive nights hundreds of dead starlings picked up in the street. Enormous flocks of them seen in daytime. At Wexford a church sexton had captured, in a rat trap, an unknown bird that for several weeks, from a church tower had been preying upon pigeons. Tip to tip, 2 feet. Looked like eagle but had a flat head that was different. [IX: 1934.1, 1934.2. (London Daily Express, April 1, 1911, p. 1 c. 4.)]


1911 Ap. 3 / See March 29. / Great flight of birds at Marlborough, Wiltshire. / Field, Ap. 15 / In a fog. Seemed lost bearings. Many flew against houses. [IX; 1935. Mathews, R.O. "Remarkable Migration of Birds in Wiltshire." Field, April 15, 1911, p. 747. See: 1911 March 29, (IX: 1932 & 1933).]


1911 March 29 / night / The Field, Ap. 8, 1911 / Hundreds of birds—curlews, thrushes, blackbirds, sparrows and other, fell dead into streets of Kilkenny and upon roads from town. At New Ross, swarms of starlings descended upon the town; streets littered; many got into houses. At Carlow, dead birds in streets and yards. / See Ap. 3. [IX: 1936.1, 1936.2. "Remarkable Influx of Birds in Ireland." Field, April 8, 1911, pp. 702-703..See: 1911 Ap. 3, IX; 1935).]


1911 March 31 / Arkansas / q / 10:57 a.m. / Bull-Amer 1/89. [IX; 1937. “Notes.” Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 1 (1911): 89-90, at 89.]


1911 Ap. 3 / Extraordinary high tide on Suffolk coast—Hundreds of old Saxon coins washed up, at Thorpness. / D. Mail 4-7-5. [IX; 1938. (London Daily Mail, April 4, 1911, p. 7 c. 5.)]


1911 Ap. 3 / D. Mail 5-5-2 / Said that on Eats cost of England a “mysterious rush of the tide had continued for almost a week, bringing havoc to some places and adding land to others Said that the coins were from Roman times to Charles II and a Spurgeon memorial coin of a few years before. [IX: 1939.1, 1939.2. (London Daily Mail, April 5, 1911, p. 5 c. 2.)]


1911 Ap 10 / sci vs / BO —series—missing / meteor / 10:40 a.m. / Shock at Rome caused Alarm. / D. Mail 11-5-4. [IX; 1940. (London Daily Mail, April 11, 1911, p. 5 c. 4.)]


1911 Ap. 10 / (+) / Versus / (+) / Bull Soc. Astro de F, 1911-233 / Flammarion mentions a q at Rome, morning of 10th. He tells of another q at Rome in the evening and at the same time Messina, reggio, etc., a light in the sky and detonations. Also great disturbance of the sea. He says that many persons were impressed with these circumstances and had asked whether there were any relation between this q in Rome and the meteor of Calabria. Flammarion says that these persons were searching for a relation between two orders of facts absolutely independent of each other, or events that had so occurred together by simple coincindence. / He goes on—the q in Rome—the meteor in Calabria—met had nothing to do with the q. [IX: 1941.1 to 1941.4. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1911-233.)]


1911 Ap. 10 / On a farm at Kermichel (Morbihan) / Bull Soc Astro de F 1912-433 / Metite found. Said that fall June 30, 1903. [IX; 1942. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1912-433.) This is the Kermichel meteorite.]


1911 Ap. 10 / 7 p.m. / Messina—a brilliant illumination in the sky and loud explosions like discharges of artillery. / Nature 86-223 / 87-529 / Nothing said of Etna. [IX; 1943. (Nature, 86-223.) (Nature, 87-529.)]


1911 Ap. 10 / Catania / Great detonation. 3 minutes later a brilliant flash. Supposed a meteorite had fallen. / Nature 87-529. [IX; 1944. (Nature, 87-529.)]


1911 Ap. 10 / [LT], 10-b / 11-10-b / Missing boy scout. [D; 467. (London Times, April 10, 1911, p. 10 c. 2.) (London Times, April 11, 1911, p. 10 c. 2.)]


1911 Ap 11 / D. Express, 1-5 / Man who for ten years been unidentified had died in the Dunfermline Workhouse. [D; 468. (London Daily Express, April 11, 1911, p. 1 c. 5.)]


1911 Ap. 12 / Q—Belgium / Cyclones, U.S. and Argentine / See Feb. 19. [IX; 1945. See: (Feb. 19; not found).]


1911 Ap 12 / BO / D. Mail of, 5-7 / Village of Ryhope, invasion of ants believed be of foreign species. [IX; 1946. (London Daily Mail, April 12, 1911, p. 5 c. 7.)]


[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. IX: 1947 & 1948.]


1911 Ap. 14 / In Eastern Morning News (Hull), Ap. 15, told of explosion in Heron street, Hull, in which virtually every window was broken, street torn up, and doors blown in. Said that was believed that believed a seaman had thrown it, but for what reason not known unless to frighten the old lady living in the house in front of which the explosion occurred. Said that the police had found the rocket. [IX: 1947.1, 1947.2 (Sic, as Pabst typed it.) (Eastern Morning News, Hull, April 15, 1911.)]


1911 Ap 14 / afternoon / D. Express, 15-5-6 / A “large, ship's rocket” of unknown origin, fell into a street of Hull, with a terrific explosion, breaking the pavement, and smashing windows in many houses. “The police picked up the rocket, which is a round black object nearly a foot long, but whence it came is a mystery.” / I should say that such an object could not been fired without attracting attention. [IX: 1948.1, 1948.2. (London Daily Express, April 15, 1911, p. 5 c. 6.)]


1911 Ap. 14 / S / Cloud / Bristol, Eng. / 11. [IX; 1949. (Ref.???)]


1911 Ap 14 / Cloud—beam / 8:30 p.m. / At Bristol, ab. an hour, beam in sky, some persons thought was tail of a comet—was a cloud , ac to Denning. / Symons Met 46-115. [IX; 1950. (Meteorological Magazine, 46-115.)]


1911 Ap. 15 / 5:50 p.m. / Campos, Brazil / Met in w.s.w. direction. Tremendous detonation. Cloud visible 20 minutes. / Bull Soc Astro de F 1911-278. [IX; 1951. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1911-278.)]


1911 Ap 15 / signals? / D. Mail, 5-6 / Explosive heath fires—Folkstone, Newington, Hayes Common, Kent; Blairgowrie, Perthshire; hampstead Heath, London. [IX; 1952. (London Daily Mail, April 15, 1911, p. 5 c. 6.)]


1911 Ap. 18 / 9:52 p.m. / q. / Kerman, Persia / BA 1911-52. [IX; 1953. (BA 1911-52.)]


1911 Ap. 20 / D. Mail, 21-7-5 / 100 acres of peat burning near Warrington. / Near Mansfield, Notts, heather and furze that caught fire on 15h, still burning. [IX; 1954. (London Daily Mail, April 21, 1911, p. 7 c. 5.)]


1911 Ap. 20 / D. Mail, 21-7-5 / After a fortnights dry weather, a “terrifying spectacle near Doncaster, Yorkshire—miles of moors afire. Light so strong that newspapers could be read 4 miles away. Extent of it 7 by 5 miles. [IX; 1955. (London Daily Mail, April 21, 1911, p. 7 c. 5.)]


1911 Ap. 21 / near Asheville, N.C. / Mountian top falls. / Trib 25-1-5. [IX; 1956. “Cæsar's Head Tumbles.” New York Tribune, April 25, 1911, p. 1 c. 5.]


1911 Ap. 28 / Eclipse of the sun / Friendly Islands / totality. [IX; 1957. (Ref.???) (Confirm.)]


1911 Ap. 28 / D. Express, Ap. 29-5-4. / At Nottingham, when at 9 a.m., arrrived train from Erewash Valley, a human foot, in a boot, recently severed, found jammed in the ironwork under a car. Whole section of line over which train passed was searched, but no body was found, and no accident heard of. [D: 469.1, 469.2. (London Daily Express, April 29, 1911, p. 5 c. 4.)]


1911 Ap. 30 / Big fire / Bangor, Me. / Trib, May 1-1-7. [IX; 1958. “Bangor Fireswept; Loss, $6,000,000.” New York Tribune, May 1, 1911, p. 1 c. 7.]


1911 Ap. 30 / 11:58 p.m. / Ashlead, Surrey. / brill met from Virgo / Nature 86-359. [IX; 1959. (Nature, 86-359.)]


1911 Ap. 30 / W. Dispatch, 1-1 / The motor car in the Esk, or partly in, / May 7-3-5. [D; 470. (London Weekly Dispatch, April 30, 1911, p. 1 c. 1.) (London Weekly Dispatch, May 7, 1911, p. 3 c. 5.)]


1911 Ap. 30 / Lloyd's D. News, 1-3. / At Colchester, 3 privates of the garrison were in the Garrison Hospital, all in different parts of town on evenings of 24th, 25th, and 29th having been struck senseless by an unknown assilant. [D; 471. (Lloyd's Daily News, April 30, 1911, p. 1 c. 3.)


1911 Ap. 30 / Number attacked / See May 10, 1920. [D; 472. See: 1920 May 10, D: 1082, 1083, & 1084.]


1911 Ap, May / Floods / Argentine / N.M. / Symons 49/81. [IX; 1960. (Meteorological Magazine, 49-81.)]


[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. D: 473-474.]


1911 May 1 / Fires / Began series of fires, home of Mr. J. A Harvey, 356 York road, Wandsworth, and up to July 6th there were 16 others. / W. Dispatch, July 16-10-2 / House was insured before the 1st fire but not afterward. Several broke out while an officer of the London Salvage Corps was in the house. / Told in Wandworth Borough News, July 21, been 25 fires in 11 weeks,. Mr and Mrs Harvey and 2 sons lived there 15 years. Here was his picture-frame shop. / Seem that after this publicity, the phe stopped abruptly. I find no more. [D: 473.1, 473.2, 473.3. (London Weekly Dispatch, July 16, 1911, p. 10 c. 2.) (Wandsworth Borough News, July 21, 1911.)]


1911 June / The Wandworth fires. / Lloyd's W. News 30-9-5 / Another, July 25, as the proprietor and his wife and family sitting at tea, and explosion was heard—then 2 others, and the staircase was found burning. Neither police nor firemen could discover the cause. The local traders association had petitioned the Wandsworth Borough Council  to investigate. [D: 474.1, 474.2. (Lloyd's Weekly News, June 30, 1911, p. 9 c. 5.)]


1911 May 2 / 10:53 p.m. / Leeds / great meteor / Nature 86-359. [IX; 1961. (Nature, 86-359.)]


1911 May 3 / Large balloon came down at Woodham Ferris, Essex. On it an inscription: “Messrs Lebaudy, Frères, Bonnières, Seine-et-Oise.” But Lebaudys made only dirigibles. Nothing known in Paris of it. / D. Mail—10-7-3. [IX; 1962. (London Daily Mail, May 10, 1911, p. 7 c. 3.)]


1911 May 4 / Somewhere else / 11:49 p.m. / Shocks recorded at W. Bronwich and Cardiff. Then at Cardiff at intervals uuntil morning of May 5. / Times 6-10-c. [IX; 1963. (London Times, May 6, 1911, p. 10 c. 3.)]


1911 May 4 / 8:52 p.m. / Surrey / great meteor / Nature 86-359. [IX; 1964. (Nature, 86-359.)]


1911 May 4 / (Shrieks) / Began phe at Woking (Lloyd's W. News 21-1-4). In home of Mr. George Holroyd, son of a well-known brewer. Shrieks and moans heard. Among others who heard the sounds were Mr Gerald Balfour, brother of the ex-Prime Minister. House thoroughly searched by police, and examined by an electrical engineer—no explanation. [D: 475.1, 475.2. (Lloyd's Weekly News, May 21, 1911, p. 1 c. 4.; not at BNA) (“Ghosts Haunt House by Daylight....” Dundee Courier, May 24, 1911, p. 5 c. 2.)]


1911 May 7 / Trib, 5-2 / For three months shocks in Queen Co— Thought due to B.R.T. trolley cars. [IX; 1965. “Earthquakes in Queens.” New York Tribune, May 7, 1911, p. 5 c. 2.]


1911 May 8 / Myst shooting / 2 cases / Trib, 1911, May 8-12-2. [D; 476. “Stray Bullet Hits Boy.” New York Tribune, May 8, 1911, p. 12 c. 2.]


1911 May 12 / Pollen / Saint-Ay (Loiret) / Yellow poeder in a rain-storm. Looked like sulphur—said been pollen. / An. Soc. Met. de France 1911-183. [IX; 1966. (" Annuaire de la Société Météorologique de France, 1911-183.)]


1911 May 14 / Forest fires / W. Va. and Penn / Trib 15-3-3. [IX; 1967. “Fire Rages For 200 Miles.” New York Tribune, May 15, 1911, p. 3 c. 3.]


1911 May 16 / 10 p.m. / Remarkable meteor as if from Pole Star, at Bristol. / D. Mail 18-5-7. [IX; 1968. (London Daily Mail, May 18, 1911, p. 5 c. 7.)]


1911 May 16 / 8:50 a.m. / q. / Ullswater Valley, England / LT 17-10-c. [IX; 1969. (London Times, May 17, 1911, p. 10 c. 3.)]


1911 May 17 / [LT], 10-c / q / n. of Eng. [IX; 1970. (London Times, May 17. 1911, p. 10 c. 3.)]


1911 May 19 / Lat ab 45 N., ab. 25 W—618 miles west of Fastnet, the White Star liner Celtic passed what was supposed to be th remains of an airship. / L.T. 22-16-1. [IX; 1971. (London Times, May 22, 1911, p. 16 c. 1.)]


1911 May 20 / Violent q recorded at Observatory of Granada, Spain. / D. Mail 22-7-7. [IX; 1972. (May 22, 1911, p. 7 c. 7.)]


1911 May 21 / Violent q, 4:50 p.m., at Melilla, a Spanish port of Morocco. / D. Mail 23-7-7. [IX; 1973. (London Daily Mail, May 23, 1911, p. 7 c. 7.)]


1911 May 22 / D. Chronicle of, copied in Light, May 27—at Woking, Surrey, house—sounds like shriek followed by moan. During the day. [D; 477. (London Daily Chronicle, May 22, 1911; not at BNA.) “Daylight Haunting Phenomena.” Light, 31 (no. 1,585; May 27, 1911): 245.]


1911 May 24 / Severe q at Leucadia, one of the Ionian Islands. / D. Mail, 26-7-5. [IX; 1974. (London Daily Mail, May 26, 1911, p. 7 c. 5.)]


1911 May 26 / Clbrst. near Fareham, s.e. Hampshire. A volume of water fell on Portsown Hill and gouged a trench 150 yards long and from 4 to 6 feet deep. / D. Mail, 29-7-5. [IX; 1975. (London Daily Mail, May 29, 1911, p. 7 c. 5.)]


1911 May 27 / New vent opened in Etna. / Nature 89-303, 171. [IX; 1976. (Nature, 89-303, 171.)]


1911 May 31 / Exceptional th. storm, London. / 3 cols in D. Mail of June 1. [IX; 1977. (London Daily Mail, June 1, 1911.)]


1911 June 1 / afternoon / D. Express—3-1-8 / Shower of locusts in an immense swarm, during a storm, at Boulogne, France. Brown—ab 2 inches long. [IX; 1978. (London Daily Express, June 3, 1911, p. 1 c. 8.)]


1911 June 5 / [LT], 5-e / q / Belgium. [IX; 1979. (London Times, June 5, 1911, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1911 June 5 / D. News, 5-5 / Young English woman in Paris—aphasia—living with people who had taken her in. [D; 478. (London Daily News, June 5, 1911, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1911 June 7 / 4 a.m. / Few hours before General Madero entered City of Mexico, severe q, June 7, 1911. / LT 8-8-e. [IX; 1980. (London Times, June 8, 1911, p. 8 c. 5.)]


1911 June 7 / 4:35 a.m. / Violent q / Mexico / Nature 86-525. [IX; 1981. (Nature, 86-525.)]


1911 June 7 / q., Mexico City, 4 h., 26 min. Longest remembered, lasting 14 minutes. About 80 killed. / D. Mail 9-9-6. [IX; 1982. (London Daily Mail, June 9. 1911, p. 9 c. 6.)]


[1911 June 7 /] 1912 or 1911 June 7 / q / Mexico City / See July 15. / More than 50 persons reported killed. / Bull-Amer 1/90. [MB-I; 161. "Notes." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 1 (1911): 89-90, at 90. See: 1912 July 15, (MB-I: 182).]


1911 June 9 / D. Mail, 7-7 / Extraordinary cold weather in the Caucasus and snow falling. [IX; 1983. (London Daily Mail, June 9, 1911, p. 7 c. 7.)]


1911 (June 11) / Unprecedented gale / N.Y. City. [IX; 1984. (Ref.???)]


1911 June 12 / Volcanic eruptions Siciliy and cyclones in U.S. / See Feb 19. [IX; 1985. See: (Feb 19).]


1911 June 12 / afternoon / D. Express. 13-5-3 / At Ecleston, 2 women, one a resident and one a visitor from the Isle of Man, went out ab. 11 a.m. in opposite parts of the town. In afternoon their bodies found in the River Dee near Eccleston. [D; 479. (London Daily Express, June 15, 1911, p. 5 c. 3.)]


[1911 June 14. Wrong date. See: 1911 June 16, (IX; 1986).]


1911 June 15 / Great q. recorded, England, Austria, India, Spain and othe rplaces—probably in Japan or eastern part of Continent of Asia. / D. Mail 17-5-6. [IX; 1987. (London Daily Mail, June 17, 1911, p. 5 c. 6.)]


1911 June 15 / Somewhere else / 9:30 a.m. / q recorded in London. / 2:39 p.m. at Limerick. / LT 16-10-e. [IX; 1988. (London Times, June 16, 1911, p. 10 c. 5.)]


1911 June 15 / Captive balloon sails away at York. / D. Mail 16-5-6. [IX; 1989. (London Daily Mail, June 16, 1911, p. 5 c. 6.)]


[1911 June 16 /] 1911 June 14 / metite / Kilbourn, Wisconsin / S. Kensington. [IX; 1986. Farrington, Oliver Cummings. New Meteorites. Field Museum of Natural History. Publication 178. Geological Series, v. 5 no. 1. Chicago: Field Museum Press, 1914, 10-12. “Mr. Gaffney states that at the time of the fall he was in his hay field about 20 rods from his barn. While there he heard a rumbling noise similar to that produced by a heavy wagon passing over a stony road. The noise, he states, was much louder than thunder. The day was close and muggy with no breeze and no sign of a local thunder storm. The noise lasted about three or four minutes. While it was going on Mr. Gaffney walked towards the barn and when he entered it the sound ceased. When he had been in the barn about a minute he heard a loud report like that of a cannon and saw a small stone strike the manger about 10 feet from where he was standing, rebound, strike the stone foundation of the barn, and then bury itself to a depth of 2½ inches in the hard-packed clay soil which formed the floor of the barn.” This is the Kilbourn meteorite.]


1911 June 16 / Kilbourn, Wisconsin / stone meteorite / Pop. Astro 38-359. [IX; 1990. (Popular Astronomy, 38 (1930): 359.) This is the Kilbourn meteorite.]


1911 June 17 / Snowstorm in a gale / N.Y. City / D. Mail 19-9-6 / Snow fell so thick that upper stories of buildings were at times invisible. Temperature dropped 20 degrees in 5 minutes. [IX; 1991. (London Daily Mail, June 19, 1911, p. 9 c. 6.)]


1911 June 17 / Field / Scarcity of birds, especially swallows, at Lichfield. / See March 29. [IX; 1992. Worthington, A.O. "Absence of Summer Birds." Field, June 17, 1911, p. 1210. See: 1911 March 29, (IX: 1932 & 1933).]


1911 June 18 / W. Dispatch of, 1-4 / After heavy th storms, a huge wave broke over sea front at Triests, Austria. Also destroyed fishing boats—100 lives lost. [IX; 1993. (London Weekly dispatch, June 18, 1911, p. 1 c. 4.)]


1911 June 18 / Lloyds W. News, 11-4 / At Clonturk, Co. Mayo, Mary Anne Feeney, killed, as a witch, an old woman name Norah Conniffe. [D; 480. (Lloyd's Weekly News, June 18, 1911, p. 11 c. 4; not at BNA.)]


1911 June 22 / London illuminated / [note cut off] a drizzling rain / Coronation George V / Trib, etc. 23-4-1. [IX; 1994. “London Illuminated in a Drizzling Rain.” New York Tribune, June 23, 1911, p. 4 c. 1-2.]


1911 June 24 / Larvae jelly / Eton, Eng. / (D-48). [IX; 1995. The note copies information from page 48 of The Book of the Damned. (M.D. Hill. "Jelly rain." Nature, 87 (July 6, 1911): 10. Correct quote: "Yesterday and the day before many larvæ emerged, and were obviously those of some species of Chironomus...." The letter is dated June 30. Chironomidae are non-biting midges.)]


1911 June 24 / Mr. Hill points out unlikely that midges would have laid eggs on pavements, so thinks the egg-enclosing lumps of jelly fell in rain. / Nature 87-10. [IX; 1996. (M.D. Hill. "Jelly rain." Nature, 87 (July 6, 1911): 10.)]


1911 June 28 / (F) / Metite ab. 44 kilometres E.S.E. of Alexandria, Egypt. / Nature 87-1911. [IX; 1997. Fletcher, 107. (Nature, 87-1911???) This is the Nakhla meteorite.]


[The following twenty notes were folded together by Fort: IX: 1998-2017.]


1911 / Locust / birds scarce / ants, etc. / See back. / See back, March 29, birds! / See from March on to here. [IX; 1998. See: 1911 March 29, (IX: 1932 & 1933).]


1911 / summer / Surprising absence of insects in Ireland / Irish Naturalist 1911-219. [IX; 1999. Johnson, W.F. "Enotomological Notes." Irish Naturalist, 20 (1911): 219.]


1911 Aug 27 / BO / W. Dispatch, 5-5 / Said that that year likely to be a record for wasps and other winged pests. Said that at Grimsby had appeared large insects, at first unknown, but then identified as stoneflies (Sirex gigas). These flies, fully 2 inches long, made almost a panic, when first seen in Grimsby. [IX: 2000.1, 2000.2. (London Weekly Dispatch, August 27, 1911, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1911 / summer / Abundance of wasps / The Field 118-368, 474. [IX; 2001. Frohawk, F.W. "Abundance of Wasps." Field, August 5, 1911, p. 368. Boyes, F. "Abundance of Wasps." Field, August 19, 1911. p. 474.]


1911 / summer / 3 captures of Camberwell Beauties noted in the Field, vol. 118. [IX; 2002. Thomson-Glover, J.W. "Camberwell Beauty Butterfly in Norfolk." Field, September 2, 1911, p. 574. Winter-Joyner, L.J. "Camberwell Beauty in Middlesex." Field, October 7, 1911, p. 825. (Only these two captures found.)]


1911 / summer / Field, Sept. 23 / A large and brilliantly colored Brazilian butterfly appeared, Sept 1, at Brighton. Thought chrysalis had come with bananas. [IX; 2003. Harland, H.S. "A Tropical Butterfly at Brighton." Field, September 23, 1911, p. 709.]


1911 / summer / Scarcity of flies at Bournemouth / Field, Oct 7. [IX; 2004. "Scarcity of Diptera." Field, October 7, 1911, p. 825.]


1911 / summer / Drought and famine in India. [IX; 2005. (Ref.???)]


1911 / summer / D. Express, Aug 14 / Extreme scarcity of th. storms to relieve the tropical weather. [IX; 2006. (London Daily Express, August 14, 1911.)]


1911 July 24 / Drought-Deluge / At Bombay, 5,500 Hindus marching to seashore, where immersed an idol as an invocation for rain. / Dispatch, Aug 6. Friday and Saturday before 6th, 10 inches rain fell in Bombay and was continuing. / Symons Met 46-136. [IX; 2007. (Meteorological Magazine, 46-136.)]


1911 July 24 / Long drought, London, broken with rain that lasted long enough to approach a record. / D. Chronicle 25-1-7 / No measurable rain since June 30th. [IX; 2008. (London Daily Chronicle, July 25, 1911, p. 1 c. 7.)]


1911 July / Drought / England / India / Nature 87-301. [IX; 2009. (Nature, 87-301.)]


1911 / summer / Drought of / Nature 88-358. [IX; 2010. (Nature, 88-358.)]


1911 / summer / Excessive rains / middle and northern climate / Japan and Philippines / Nature 88-279. [IX; 2011. (Nature, 88-279.)]


1911 / summer / Cor to Nature 88-111 records he collected ab. twice as much dew this summer as in 1909. [IX; 2012. (Nature, 88-111.)]


1911 / summer / Drought broken by violent wind and rainstorm over all Europe. / See Sept 29. [IX; 2013. See: (1911 Sept 29).]


1911 / summer / The drought / Nature 90-192. [IX; 2014. (Nature, 90-192.)]


1911 / Summer / Prevalence of wasps noted in D. Express several times. / Aug. 24-5-5 / Wasps incvaded candy stores, so that for 5 days proprietors feared to return, at Kingston-on-Thames. [IX; 2015. (London Daily Express, August 24, 1911, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1911 / summer / Plague of flies told of / Express, Sept 14-5-2. [IX; 2016. (London Daily Express, September 14, 1911, p. 5 c. 2.)]


1911 July / Exceptional heat. [IX; 2017. (Ref.???)]


1911 July and Aug / Mars and Saturn in Aries. [IX; 2018. (Confirm.)]


1911 July 1 / q. / San Francisco. [IX; 2019. (Ref.???)]


1911 July 1 / Spon Comb? / NY Times, 1911, July 1-3-2. [D; 481. (New York Times, July 1, 1911, p. 3 c. 2.)]


1911 July 2 / afternoon / Strong shocks / Cal. and Nevada / Nature 87-53. [IX; 2020. (Nature, 87-53.)]


1911 July 2 / Hair / W. Dispatch, 6-7. / Florence Donn, in Leather Lane, London, felt tug at her braid, and found some of it with the ribbon been cut off. Policeman arrested Richard Newman, a porter, who the policeman said had some hair and a ribbon in his hand. Prisoner was drunk and apologetic. No instrument found on him, but scissors picked up in adjacent yard. Newman said he had been drunk and was sorry—fined 40 S. [D; 482.1, 482.2. (London Weekly Dispatch, July 2, 1911, p. 6 c. 7.)]


1911 July 4 / Quake of great violence recorded at Laibach, Austria, 2:40 p.m. (Greenwich). Center ab 3,000 miles eastward. / D. Mail 5-5-5. [IX; 2021. (London Daily Mail, July 5, 1911, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1911 July 8 / q-phe / 2 a.m. / Sharp quakes several parts of Hungary. “Something like a crown of fire” in the sky. / Standard, 10th. [IX; 2022. (London Standard, July 10, 1911.)]


1911 July 8 / New comet (Kies') at Yerkes. / NY Sun 19-2-5. [IX; 2023. (New York Sun, July 19, 1911, p. 2 c. 5.)]


1911 July 8 / Lloyds D. News 9-2-1 / Buda-Pest / q and panic—ab 2 a.m. / Preceded by lightning—no storm. [MB-I; 7. (Lloyds Daily News, July 9, 1911, p. 2 c. 1.)]


1911 July 9 / N.Y. Sun, 2-6 / Disatrous to cattle. Drought in Texas and Oklahoma. [MB-I; 8. (New York Sun, July 9, 1911, p. 2 c. 6.)]


1911 July 9 / Fresh shocks at Keoskemet, Hungary / D. Mail, 11-5-4. [MB-I; 9. (London Daily Mail, July 11, 1911, p. 5 c. 4.)]


1911 July 9 / 2:02 a.m. / Hungary, 50 miles s.e. of Budapest / Destructive q. / Nature 87-53. [MB-I; 10. (Nature, 87-53.)]


1911 July 9 / W. Dispatch, 7-3 / For 8 weeks been a “ripper” in Atlanta, Georgia.[D; 483. July 9, 1911, p. 7 c. 3.)]


1911 July 11 / [LT], 8-b / 14-8-e / Fall of balloon into North Sea. [MB-I; 11. (London Times, July 11, 1911, p. 8 c. 2.) (London Times, July 14, 1911, p. 8 c. 5.)]


1911 July 12 / early morning / Severe q recorded at Laibach. Said in S. America. / D. Mail 13-5-3. [MB-I; 12. (London Daily Mail, July 13, 1911, p. 5 c. 3.)]


1911 July 12 / Great forest fires / N. Ontario / Trib 13-1-3. [MB-I; 13. “Several Hundreds Die in Fireswept Forests.” New York Tribune, July 13, 1911, p. 1 c. 3.]


1911 July 13 / [LT], 8-c / q. Recorded. [MB-I; 14. (London Times, July 13, 1911, p. 8 c. 3.)]


1911 July 14-17 / At Baguio (Luzon), Philippines, 2239 mm. of rain. / [Note cut off]o next to the greatest downpour recorded / Nature 88-279. [MB-I; 15. (Nature, 88-279.)]


1911 July 15 / Hurricane / Philippines / N.Y. Sun 15-1-6. [MB-I; 16. (New York Sun, July 15, 1911, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1911 July 16 / (8 p.m.) / A great Lake Michigan meteor / Pop Astro 19-523. [MB-I; 17. Stebbins, Joel. “The Meteor of July 16, 1911.” Popular Astronomy, 19 (no. 8; October 1911): 523-524.]


1911 July 17 / Myst shooting / NY Times, 1911, July 17-3-2. [D; 484. (New York Times, July 17, 1911, p. 3 c. 2.)]


1911 July 22 / (3) / Comet-like fast and near earth / Breslau, Germany / Nature 87/258 / La Nat 1911/2/206. [MB-I; 18. (La Nature, 1911 pt. 2 p. 206.)]


1911 July 22 / 3:17 a.m. / Hendaye, France / large double met / Sc Am 105-367. [MB-I; 19. (Scientific American, n.s., 105-367.)]


1911 July 25 / N.Y. Sun, 5-3 / Two days typhoons followed by deluge in Philippines. [IX; 2024. (New York Sun, July 25, 1911, p. 5 c. 3.)]


1911 July 25 / Cold wave / snow flurries / Michgan and Ohio / N.Y. Sun 26-1-4. [IX; 2025.1. (New York Sun, July 26, 1911, p. 1 c. 4.)]


1911 July 25 / (Fr) / [LT], 5-c / q. / France. [IX; 2025.2. (London Times, July 25, 1911, p. 5 c. 3.)]


1911 July 28 / Off east coast of devon, a waterspout. / D News, July 31. [IX; 2026. (London Daily News, July 31, 1911.)]


1911 July 28 / E Mec., 94-277 / That in a terrific th. storm in London, a youth in a workshop, near the Grand Junction Canal, saw a bright flash and thought that something had fallen from the sky, He searched in a yard in which he thought the fall had occurred, and in about an hour, found an object in a cavity ab. 9 inches deep and concluded.—(It was an irregular mass about 7 by 6 or 5 inches, but in it was an egg-shaped nucleus which looked like flint—7¼ lbs. The cor. who writes the account to discredit the reported occurrence says that he took the object to the curator of a museum, and was told that it was a “Septarian nodule” from the London clay. / See Aug., 1887. [IX; 2027.1 to 2027.4. (English Mechanic, 94-277.) See: (1887 Aug; not found here).]


1911 July 28 / afternoon / Weston-super-Mare, a sandstorm. / At Birmingham, without warning, dust and darkness. Houses filled with loose gravel. Swansea—dust and darkness followed by violent th. storm. / D. News, 31st. [IX; 2028. (London Daily News, July 31, 1911.)]


1911 July 28 / Tidal waves on coast of Devonshire. / D. News, July 31 / Also at Worthing. [IX; 2029. (London Daily News, July 31, 1911.)]


1911 July 28 / (+) / night / N.Y. Sun 29-5-4 / “Imposing an inexplicable phenomena” in sky over Paris—reported from Paris Observatory. “Two brilliant circles of fire, with green flames shooting from the circles—lasted ab. 2 minutes. [IX; 2030. (New York Sun, July 29, 1911, p. 5 c. 4.)]


1911 July 29 / evening / At Worthing, sudden “tidal wave”. Also “something resmbling a waterspout”. / D. Chronicle, July 31. [IX; 2031. (London Daily Chronicle, July 31, 1911.)]


1911 July 29 / night / Coast Devonshire, tidal wave during th. storm. / D. Chronicle, Aug 1-1-5. [IX; 2032. (London Daily Chronicle, August 1, 1911, p. 1 c. 5.)]


1911 July 30 / met train / At Brancaster, 10 p.m., just below Cassiopeia, a briliant meteor, visible 4 or 5 minutes. / D. Mail, Aug 1-3-3 / 2-3-4 / Seems was the train that so lasted. Seen in Kent and other parts. [IX; 2033. (London Daily Mail, August 1, 1911, p. 3 c. 3.) (London Daily Mail, August 2, 1911, p. 3 c. 4.)]


1911 July 30 / Cor to Daily Mail, Aug 1-3-3, writes that at Branscaster, Norfolk, at 10 p.m., he saw a brilliant meteor just below Cassiopeia. “It appeared to be visible for four or five minutes. / 2-3-4—said that at 10:20, great meteor over Norfolk, Kent, and other counties—that same night, Mr. Denning at Bristol had seen early Perseids. [IX: 2034.1, 2034.2. (London Daily Mail, August 1, 1911, p. 3 c. 3.)]


1911 Aug 1 / D. Chronicle of / “Practically half of India is suffering from drought. [IX; 2035. (London Daily Chronicle, August 1, 1911.)]


1911 Aug 4 / Shock at Salvaterra, Portugal / Lloyd's Weekly News 6-1-3 / N.M. [IX; 2036. (Lloyds Weekly News, August 6, 1911, p. 1 c. 3.)]


1911 Aug 5 / K. b. / Man supposed killed by a burglar—house ransacked. Body—peculiar red mark and swollen hand. / NY Times, 1911, Aug 5-3-4. [D; 485. (New York Times, August 5, 1911, p. 3 c. 4.)]


1911 Aug 6 / Coins / Lloyds W. News, 4-3 / “Mystery stops traffic”—showers of coins, nights, in Trafalgar Square—newsboys, out-of-works, and peddlers, scrambling and sometimes fighting. Dense crowds—police unable to find out whence coming. [D; 486. (Lloyds Weekly News, August 6, 1911, p. 4 c. 3.)]


1911 Aug 7 / D. News of, 5-3 / During heat wave, a tree in Hyde Park burst into flames. [IX; 2037. (London Daily News, August 7, 1911, p. 5 c. 3.)]


1911 Aug. 8 / Quadrature of Mars. [IX; 2038. (Confirm.)]


1911 Aug 10 / Perseids / Pop. Astro 19-486. [IX; 2039. (Popular Astronomy, 19-486.)]


1911 Aug. 11 / morning and ab. 3:30 p.m. / 2 shocks / San Bernardino, Cal. / N.Y. Sun 12-1-4. [IX; 2040. (New York Sun, August 12, 1911, p. 1 c. 4.)]


1911 Aug 14 / N.Y. Sun, 1-2 / Drought continues in S.W. States. [IX; 2041. (New York Sun, August 14, 1911, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1911 Aug 16 / Hail size of tennis balls / Province of Huesca, Spain / Nature 87-301. [IX; 2042. (Nature, 87-301.)]


1911 Aug 17 / Conj. Mars and Satrurn / Bull Soc A. de F 1911-409. [IX; 2043. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1911-409.)]


1911 Aug 17 / 6:10 p.m. / Albany, N.Y. / Shocks recorded by State Museum seismograph. Also shocks recorded in Germany. / N.Y. Sun 18-2-4. [IX; 2044. (New York Sun, August 18, 1911, p. 2 c. 4.)]


1911 Aug 18 / [LT], 9-a / q. recorded. [IX; 2045. (London Times, August 18, 1911, p. 9 c. 1.)]


1911 Aug 20 / Reported fall th. st[orm] / Eng. / Eng. Mec 94/89. [IX; 2046. (English Mechanic, 94-89.)]


1911 Aug 21 / 10 p.m. / Beatenberg, Switzerland / Cor saw in s.w. flashes of light shooting up. / Cor Sir Lauder Brunton / Nature 87-278 / He called it a pseudo-aurora—very much like a true aurora. But he had heard that a similar phe the night before but less brilliant. [IX: 2047.1, 2047. (Nature, 87-278.)]


1911 Aug 21 / Aurora = distant elec display / Another cor, Nature 87-347, writes that at the time, at Lugano, s. east of Beatenberg, a th. storm of extreme violence. [IX; 2048. (Nature 87-347.)]


1911 Aug 21 / Two bombs in N.Y. exploded. One in vacant lot. / NY Times, 1911, Aug 21-1-8. [D; 487.

(New York Times, August 21, 1911, p. 1 c. 8.)]


1911 Aug. 22 / q. / Cairo / Ev. News, 1920, Oct 2-5-3 / N.M. [IX; 2049. (London Evening News, October 2, 1920, p. 5 c. 3.)]


1911 Aug 23 / After 6 weeks of drought, Th. Storms and torrential rains doing much damage in France and Switzerland. / D. Chron. 24-1-6. [IX; 2050. (London Daily Chronicle, August 24, 1911, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1911 Aug 24 / Hurricanes / France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Gt. Britain / See Feb 19. [IX; 2051. See (Feb. 19; not 1911).]


1911 Aug 28 / [LT], 3-e / Hail in the Pyrenees. [IX; 2052. (London Times, August 28, 1911, p. 3 c. 5.)]


1911 Aug 28 / Great Hurricane / Charleston, S.C. / NY Times 29-1-1 / See 30-1-2. [IX; 2053. (New York Times, August 29, 1911, p. 1 c. 1.) (New York Times, August 30, 1911, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1911 Aug 29 / Augs and point on moon. / 146 / [note cut off]9. [IX; 2054. (Refs.???)]


1911 Aug 29 / Distatrous storms, N.S., France, England, Switer[land] / See Feb 19. [IX; 2055. See (Feb. 19; not 1911).]


1911 Aug 31 / (Cut) / Flashes of light shooting up. / Switzerland / Nature 87/27. [IX; 2056. (Nature, 87-27.)]


1911  Aug 31 / Heaviest recorded rainfall in Formosa. At Kunkiko was 1034 mm. / Nature 105-689. [IX; 2057. (Nature, 105-689.)]


1911 Aug 31 / ([C]ut) / A meteor that slowly traced a J / (Portsmouth) / Observatory 34/375 / 87/499. [IX; 2058. (Observatory, 34-375.) (Observatory???, 87-499.)]


1911 Sept-Oct / Polt in a London suburb. Dets., but not names and place. / Jour. Soc 15-225. [D; 488. "A Poltergeist Case." Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 15 (1912): 225-240.]


1911 Sept / See fires of Ap. 2, 1889 / and March, 1913. [IX; 2059. See: (1889 Ap. 2), and, (1913 March).]


1911 Sept to March 1912 / Mars in Taurus / McKready's Beginner's Star-Book / See Comp. Observatory. [IX; 2060. McKready, Kelvin. A Beginner's Star-Book. New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1912, 86. See: (Comp. Observatory???).]


1911 Sept. 2 / Large meteor moving slowly westward / evening / Langholm, Dumfriesshire / Nature 87-347. [IX; 2061. (Nature, 87-347.)]


1911 Sept. 4 / New York / great luminous streak drifting over sky. / Sc Am 105-275. [IX; 2062. (Scientific American, n.s., 105-275.)]


1911 Sept 6 / Shocks / Aix-la-Chapelle and other places / D. Mail 7-3-7. [IX; 2063. (London Daily Mail, September 7, 1911, p. 3 c. 7.)]


1911 Sept 9 / Pouliguen / See May 2, 1884. [IX; 2064. See: 1884 May 2, (V: 1943 to 1948).]


1911 Sept 9-10 / night / to 23 / Etna, after rumbling from August / Nature 89-149. [IX; 2065. (Nature, 89-149.)]


1911 Sept 9-10, night, to Sept 23 / The Etna eruption / Nature 89-149. [IX; 2066. (Nature, 89-149.)]


1911 Sept 9 / (+) / Cor writes that at four o'clock in the morning in the salt marshes of Le Pouliguen, peasants were gathering salt, There came an intense fog that spread heat and a suffocating odor. Suddenly one of the women cried that her clothes were burning. Others were burned and all fled in a panic. / Cosmos, N.S., 65/341. [IX: 2067.1, 2067.2. (Cosmos, s. 4 v. 65 (1911): 341, also p. 369.)]


1911 Sept 9 / Le Pol / See Fires and Spon Comb, May 3, 1884. [IX; 2068. See: 1884 May 2, (V: 1943 to 1948), and, 1884 May 3, (V; 1949).]


1911 Sept. 9 / Etna active. / By 13th, terrific. 79 vents open. / D. Mail 14-5-5. [IX; 2069. (London Daily Mail, September 14, 1911, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1911 Sept 9 / Spon Comb / See May 3, 1884. [IX; 2070. See: 1884 May 2, (V: 1943 to 1948), and, 1884 May 3, (V; 1949).]


1911 Sept 10 / Jour des Debats of / Fire broken out anew in the Forest of Fonatinebleau (Reine-Amelie). / That the fire of the 7th in the dunes of Wisques (Pas-de-Calais) had spread with lightning-like rapidity. / Other fires. / Great fire in the Ardennes. / Fir ein the pine forest northeast of Mt. Canipgou. / Fire of unknown origin in the Oise. / A violent fire in a pine forest in the Gironde. A violent fire near Vichy. / Fire at Candos and at Sanquinet. / Seven wagons chargés de paille burning at Meaux. / A heavy fog at Paris. / Journal, 11th / Great fires in forests at Chateau-du-Loir and near Reims. / Succeeding issues—fire after fire in new places, in forests and fields. / Fires in issues before 10th—Climax in issue of 10th. [IX: 2071.1 to 2071.4. (Journal des Debats, September 10, 1911.) (Journal des Debats, September 11, 1911.) Wagons "chargés de paille" are filled with straw.]


1911 Sept. 10 / Etna active. / NY Times 11-1-6 / On 11th, violent. [IX; 2072. (New York Times, September 11, 1911, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1911 Sept 13 / Great fire in Antwerp. / NY Times 13-1-6. [IX; 2073. ("Fire Raging in Antwerp." New York Times, September 13, 1911, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1911 Sept 13 / Etna active. / Cosmos, N.S., 65/337 / Had been inactive since March 23, 1910. [IX; 2074. (Cosmos, s. 4 v. 65 (1911): 337.)]


1911 Sept 15 / Inf conjunction Venus-sun. [IX; 2075. (Confirm.)]


1911 Sept 17 / BO / W. Dispatch, 4-3—Swansea invaded by millions of creatures said be "maggots" from the hide and skin markets—millions of them, some an inch long, swarmed up lamp posts and walls of houses. [IX; 2076. (London Weekly Dispatch, September 17, 1911, p. 4 c. 3.) "Plague of Maggots." London Daily News, September 15, 1911, p. 5 c. 3.]


1911 Sept 17 / 3:38 a.m., Greenwich Time / Great q recorded at Laibach. Estimated 5,000 miles away. / D. Mail 18-5-6. [IX; 2077. (London Daily Mail, September 18, 1911, p. 5 c. 6.)]


1911 Sept 19 / Etna continues with great violence. / D. Mail 20-5-3. [IX; 2078. (London Daily Mail, September 20, 1911, p. 5 c. 3.)]


1911 Sept 20 / period / Kimmel Mystery in N.Y. A man disap. Insurance people said a convict was he. [D; 489. (Ref.???)]


1911 Sept. 21 / Clbrst at Vesuvius and Naples. 20 persons perished. / D. Mail, 23-5-6. [IX; 2079. (London Daily Mail, September 23, 1911, p. 5 c. 6.)]


1911 Sept 21 / q / Alaska / NY Times 24-2-4 / Oct 2-7-2. [IX; 2080. (New York Times. September 24, 1911, p. 2 c. 4.) (New York Times, October 2, 1911, p. 7 c. 2.)]


1911 Sept. 21 / Q in Chili and Italy / See Feb. 19. [IX; 2081. (Refs.???) See: (Feb. 19).]


1911 Sept. 21 / Q / Alaska / hurricanes in Italy and on Atlantic / See Feb 19. [IX; 2082. (Refs.???) See: (Feb. 19.).]


1911 Sept. 22 / "A hurricane of great violence and accompanied by a deluge of rain raged throughout today over the Vesuvian region. / NY Times 23-1-2 / About 20 persons perished. / For q, see 21. [IX; 2083. (New York Times, September 23, 1911, p. 1 c. 2.) See: 1911 Sept. 11, (IX; 2080).]


1911 Sept 23 / New comet near pole star. / LT 26-5-e. [IX; 2084. (London Times, September 26, 1911, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1911 Sept 24 / morning / Target practice / Fort Monroe / Dispatch from Norfolk, Va / NY Times 25-1-6. [IX; 2085. (New York Times, September 25, 1911, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1911 Sept 24 / Lloyd's W. News, 1-2. / Wails and screams heard in the district around Cuckfield, Sussex. Ducks and chickens vanished. Men out hunting for supposed wild animal—nothing been seen. In Lloyd's, Oct 1, that the screams were continuing and poultry vanishing. Someone described an unknown animal, 6 feet long, and 2 feet high. [D: 490.1, 490.2. (Lloyd's Weekly News, September 24, 1911, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1911 Sept. 24 / Nothing of Cuckfield animal in Brighton Argus. [D; 491. "Many Things in a Few Lines." Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, September 25, 1911, p. 3 c. 8. "Cuckfield." Sussex Agricultural Express, September 29, 1911, p. 6 c. 4. "There has been some alarm the Pondlye district just recently as the result of the horrible moaning at night of an animal believed to be wild. Some say it is a jackal. 'Everybody knows what it is,' said Mrs. Pilbeam, of Bridge Farm, to 'Express' representative, “until they hear it, and then they don't know what it is.' When Mr. Pilbeam first heard the strange noise he thought calf had gone mad. In her fright his wife trembled and clutched the bedpost, while the children screamed. On the second night of the wailing Mr. Pilbeam went and fetched a neighbour. Mr. Upton, who, with his son, armed with a gun searched the adjoining wood where the cries came from. The animal was heard rustling through the undergrowth, and Mr. Upton, jun., saw it rush quite close to him and then it sprang over a five-barred gate. Before the guns could be levelled at it it had disappeared in the darkness. It was nearly 6ft. in length and about 2ft. in height. It had a long tail. A party of six men, with guns, laid in wait for the animal one night from 9.0 p.m. till 12.30 a.m. Ten minutes before they arrived it was heard moaning horribly. After their arrival it disappeared. The cries could be heard a mile away. Last Friday night the animal was heard in Pickwell Wood, Bolney."]


1911 Sept 25 / morning / French battleship blown up, Toulin harbor. / NY Times, Oct 4-3-[column not given]. [IX; 2086. (New York Times, October 4, 1911, p. 3 c. ???)]


1911 Sept 25-Oct 1 / N.Y. Times, Oct 19 / Dispatch from Philadelphia armory of ship Wm P. Frye from Honolulu—that between 27th and 33rd degrees N. Lat, from Sep 25 to Oct 1, "Night had been turned into day by a fiery comet that lighted up the decks of the ship. / NY Times, Oct 19-1-2 / More details. [IX: 2087.1, 2087.2. (October 19, 1911, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1911 Sept 27 / New comet under bowl of Little Dipper. / NY Times 28-1-6. [IX; 2088. (New York Times, September 28, 1911, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1911 Sept 28, and before / qs in Costa Rica / NY Times 29-1-2. [IX; 2089. (New York Times, September 29, 1911, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1911 Sept 28 / Ice / Australia. [IX; 2090. (Ref.???)]


1911 Sept 28 / Aurora / Omaha / Science, NS, 34-182. [IX; 2091. Rigge, William Francis. "A Bright Aurora of September, 1908." Science, n.s., 34 (August 11, 1911): 182-183.]


1911 Sept 29-Oct 1 / Violent wind and rainstorm, all over n. Europe, broke the drought. / Nature 88-107. [IX; 2092. (Nature, 88-107.)]


1911 Sept 30, etc. / Italian fleet bombards Tripoli. / NY Times, Oct 1. [IX; 2093. (New York Times, October 1, 1911.)]


1911 Sept 30 / Hurricane, Holland / D. Mail, Oct. 2-8-3. [IX; 2094. (London Daily Mail, October 2, 1911, p. 8 c. 3.)]


1911 Oct, Nov / Brilliant white spots on Mars / Nature 89/17 / D-187. [MB-I; 20. The note copies information from page 187 of The Book of the Damned. "Brilliant White Spots on Mars." Nature, 89 (March 7, 1912): 17.]


1911 Oct 1 / New comet / n. eye / Near Regulus / Beljansky's / D. Mail 3-5-5. [IX; 2095. (London Daily Mail, October 3, 1911, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1911 Oct 1 / Lloyd's W. News of / S.S. 30 feet long in the River Medway. [D; 492. (Lloyd's Weekly News, October 1, 1911.)]


1911 Oct 2-10 / Ten murders in England. [D; 493. (Ref.???)]


[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort. D: 494-495.]


1911 Oct 3 / + / D. Express / Inquest upon body of Miss Marjorie Quirk, daughter of the Bishop of Sheffield, in Nibthwaite, in the Lake district, on Oct 2, showed that girl's death had followed delusion that she had drunk paraffin. She had been a sufferer from melancholia. During her nurse's absence she drank what she believed [to] be a cupful of paraffin. Violent sickness, and she died. Found no paraffin in cup.No trace of it in mouth or throat. [D: 494.1, 494.2. (London Daily Express, October 3, 1911.)]


[1911 Oct 3] / [Death of a Bishop.] / Sunday Express—Ap. 27, 1924. [D; 495. Newspaper clipping. (London Sunday Express, October 3, 1911.)]


1911 Oct 6 / See Nov. 7. / q., no damage, Haiti—heavy q recorded in New Orleans and Brooklyn. / NY Times, Oct 9-2-3. [IX; 2096. (New York Times, October 9, 1911, p. 2 c. 3.) See: 1911 Nov 7-13, (MB-I: 29.]


1911 Oct 7 / Clbrsts / Wisconsin, Colorado, Penn. [IX; 2097. (Refs.??? New York newspaper????)]


1911 Oct 11 / Succession of Disastrous shocks / San Domingo / D. Express 12-1-4. [IX; 2098. (London Daily Express, October 12, 1911, p. 1 c. 4.)]


1911 Oct 11 / Nature 89/17 / Brilliant spot on Mars. / Bull. Astronomique 1912/330 / E Mec 94/277, 300, 322. [IX; 2099. (Bulletin Astronomique, 1912-330.) (English Mechanic, 94-277.) (English Mechanic, 94-300.) (English Mechanic, 94-322.)]


1911 Oct. 14 / Mars / Brilliant white projection observed for 29 min upon Icaria, off by cloud of this earth—two astronomers. / Mem BAA 20-121 / Nature 89/17. [IX; 2100. “Section for the Observation of Mars.” Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, 20 (1916): 25-178, at 121. (Nature, 89-17.)]


1911 Oct. 14 / Brilliant white spots on Mars. / Nature 89-16. [IX; 2101. (Nature, 89-16.)]


1911 Oct 15 / q. / Sicily / near Catania / 20 deaths / D. Mail 17-7-3 / Nature 87-526. [IX; 2102. (London Daily Mail, October 17, 1911, p. 7 c. 3.) (Nature, 87-526.)]


1911 Oct 19 / Descent near Brighton of a large French balloon. / D. Mail 20-3-5. [IX; 2103. (London Daily Mail, October 20, 1911, p. 3 c. 5.)]


1911 Oct 20 / [LT], 10-d / Balloon's descent in mid-Channel. [IX; 2104. (London Times, October 20, 1911, p. 10 c. 4.)]


1911 Oct 20 / Mars / 2 slightly whitish protuberances / Mem. BAA 20/121. [IX; 2105. (Memoirs of the British Astronomical Asssociation, 20-121.)]


1911 Oct. 23 / This day, at the Wandsworth County Court, London, Thomas Henry Wrensted, of Queen Victoria Street,sued William Atkinson, of Borough Road, S.E., for rent due in respect to a house in Cathles Road, Balham (Charles G. Harper, “Haunted Houses”, p. 59), who had left the house, alleging disagreeable phenomena, Said that noise gave his family no rest—Bangs at head of bedsteads—patterings up and down stairs. One of his daughters was slapped in the face by something. [D: 496.1, 496.2, 496.3. Harper, Charles George. Haunted Houses. 2nd ed. London: Chapman and Hall, 1924, 59-60+???)]


1911 Oct 23 / (Polts) / assault / In Wandworth County Court—Balham News, 28th—William Atkinson, of 14 Cathles-road, Balham, sued for rent. Said been obliged to leave th house. Loud noises—beds shaken—once his daughter was slapped. Shadows been seen. “Ghosts” no legal standing, and verdict against defendant.  [D: 497.1, 497.2. (Balham News, October 28, 1911.)]


1911 Oct 24 / Heavy guns, target practice, Newport. / N.Y. Times 25-22-2. [IX; 2106. (New York Times, October 25, 1911, p. 22 c. 2.)]


1911 Oct 24 / D. Mail, 5-5 / Polts at Balham, (London). [D; 498. (London Daily Mail, October 24, 1911, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1911 Oct 25 / Meteor / India / Jour Astro Soc. India 2/78. [IX; 2107. (Journal of the Astronomical Society of India, 2-78.)]


1911 Oct 28 / Bright white spot on the limb of Mars. / Mem BAA, 20/145. [IX; 2108. (Moirs of the British Astronomical Association, 20-145.)]


[See last CFN drawer MB for 1911, 1912, & 1913.]


1911 Oct. 29 / W. Dispatch, 1-5 / 2 inquests, at Shoreditch, held by the coroner, Dr Wynn Westcott; Emily West, child of 22 months, who, bitten by a dog, in July, had since barked like a dog, at times of excitement when seeing one of the animals—and Joseph West, aged 49, who, taken suddenly ill, had died after barking like a dog. [D: 499.1, 499.2. (London Weekly Dispatch, October 299, 1911, p. 1 c. 5.)]


1911 Oct 31 / 4:50 p.m. / Cor writes from Keyham Barton, Devonport—sawab, 300 feet up in clear sky a “very brilliant flash. Asks whether it could have had anything to do with wireless apparatus of surrounding battleships, or could have come from outer space. / E Mec 94/346. [MB-I: 21.1, 21.2. (English Mechanic, 94-346.)]


1911 Nov. 2 / N.Y. Herald 13-4-3 / Isaac Belote, a farmer, living near Forestville, western New York, fell asleep, and could not be roused for 10 days. [D; 500. (New York Herald, November 13, 1911, p. 4 c. 3.)]


1911 Nov / Mars and 7 days phe / See Jan 29, 1837. / One before this. [MB-I; 22. See: (1837 Jan 29), and, (before 1837).]


1911 Nov / 7 days from Mars / Jan 10, 1867. [MB-I; 23. See: (1867 Jan 10).]


1911 Nov 3 / 2 slight bulges on Mars. over Hellas  Mems / Jour. BAA 20/121 / Bedford Ryall. [MB-I; 24. “Section for the Observation of Mars.” Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, 20 (1916): 25-178, at 121.]


1911 Nov 4, about / “Terrible storms, Lower California, and Sonora, Mexico. Great destruction. / N.Y. Sun 5-3-1. [MB-I; 25. (New York Sun, November 5, 1911, p. 3 c. 1.)]


1911 Nov. 4 / Port of Spain Gazette, Sept 21, 1925 / [Creation of a New Island off Trinidad.] [MB-I; 26. Newspaper clipping. (Port of Spain Gazette, September 21, 1925.)]


1911 Nov 4 / N.Y. Herald 7-9-4 / The new island between Trinidad and coast of Venezuela—late in afternoon—tremendous report and smoke and flames—ab 3 acres in extent—island of mud—distinct odor of oil—just off an oil-producing district and close to the asphalt deposits. [MB-I: 27.1, 27.2. (New York Herald, November 7, 1911, p. 9 c. 4.)]


1911 Nov. 6 / Upheaval of new small island bet. Trinidad and Venezuela. / D. Mail 29-5-6 / Alarming clouds of smoke reached Trinidad. [MB-I; 28. (London Daily Mail, November 29, 1911, p. 5 c. 6.)]


1911 Nov 7-13 / (Sound. Surf?) / The “gouffire” of Haiti—Lit. Digest 46-396—an account from Bull Seis. Soc. (1913?) by the Vicar of Croix-des-Bouquets. During the day the sound was heard from the southeast—a deep roaring, then at times like the howling of a dog “seemed to come from a great depth”. A hollow boom like a distant cannon shot. At night from same direction—a tumultuous rumbling, howling, rushing sounds. Usually ending in strong detonation. “Then again would be heard an outburst that can not be imagined. It was as if a mountain of glass were shattered, and the noise seemed echoed in all directions. At times it seems as if one could hear the roar of surf or even the dead thud of objects falling, such as blocks of stone rolling down precipices. During the night there was something very sinister in these phenomena." / See Oct. 6. [MB-I: 29.1 to 29.4. "Strange Noises in Haiti." Literary Digest, 46 (February 22, 1913): 396. Scherer, J. "Notes on Remarkable Earthquake Sounds in Haiti." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2 (1912): 230-232. See: 1911 Oct 6, (IX; 2096).]


1911 Nov 7 / N.Y. Herald, 3-5 / David Gast, aged 33, of Corona, L.I., been alseep 5 days. [D; 501. (New York Herald, November 7, 1911, p. 3 c. 5.)]


1911 Nov 11 / Alaska—worst storm since year 1900 / N.Y. Sun 12-2-2. [MB-I; 30. (New York Sun, November 12, 1911, p. 2 c. 2.)]


1911 Nov. 11 / (9) / explosive hail / (154). [MB-I; 31. (W.G. Brown. "Explosive hail." Nature, 88 (January 11, 1912): 350. The University of Missouri is located at Columbia; and, Brown's earlier observation was made at Lexington, Virginia, (not in Kentucky).)]


1911 Nov 11 / Columbia, Mo. / Fall of explosive hail. / Nature 88-350 / Some with reports as loud as pistol shots. [MB-I; 32. (W.G. Brown. "Explosive hail." Nature, 88 (January 11, 1912): 350.)]


1911 Nov 12 / U.S.—storms / N.Y. Sun—13-2-5 / Worst early winter storm in Ohio, in 20 years. Coldest Nov 12th in records of Pittsburg Weather Bureau. Tornado, Wisconsin. [MB-I; 33. (New York Sun, November 13, 1911, p. 2 c. 5.)]


1911 Nov. 13 / On photo plate a nova, or variable, in Perseus / Nature 89-459. [MB-I; 34. “Our Astronomical Column.” Nature, 89 July 4, 1912): 459.]


1911 Nov. 13 / See if near Nov. Gem. 2, March 12, 1912. [MB-I; 35. DN Geminorum, in Gemini, is at R.A. 6h 54m 54.62s and Dec. +32° 08' 27.0” (Epoch 2000). UV Persei, in Perseus, is at R.A. 2h 10 m 8.32s and Dec. +57° 11' 21.1” (Epoch 2000). Mobberley, Martin P.; Barber, Patricia M.; and, Hurst, Guy M. “C.R d'Esterre and the mysteries of UV and UW Per.” Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 107 (no. 2; 1997): 65-71, at 68. Both are dwarf novas.]


1911 Nov 13 / The nova traced back—but conspicuous then. / Nature 90/580. [MB-I; 36. “Our Astronomical Column.” Nature, 90 (January 23, 1913): 580. Mobberley, Martin P.; Barber, Patricia M.; and, Hurst, Guy M. “C.R d'Esterre and the mysteries of UV and UW Per.” Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 107 (no. 2; 1997): 65-71, at 67. “Conspicuous” at a maximum magnitude of 10.5, (only visible with a telescope).]


1911 Nov 13 and 21 / Variable / Star conspicuous on plates taken by D'Esterre. / Prof Pickering looked up and found it of the eleventh mag on 3 preceding dates back to Oct. 30, 1896. [MB-I; 37. (Ref.???)]


1911 Nov. 15 / 20 h., 20 m. / Tarnow / brilliant meteor / Nature 88-494. [MB-I; 38. (Nature, 88-494.)]


1911 Nov 16 / Shock / Germany / Sun, p. 1 / 1719. [MB-I; 39. (New York Sun, ca. 1911???)]


1911 Nov 16 (?) / Metite / 7 days from Mars / Ap. 2, 1856. [MB-I; 40. See: 1856 Ap 2, (II; 1928).]


1911 Nov. 16 / q. in Frankfort on Main so severe houses cracked. / D. Mail, 18th / Panic reported from many towns in S. Germany. [MB-I; 41. (London Daily Mail, November 18, 1911.)]


1911 Nov. 16 / 10:28 p.m. / Upper Rhine Valley, Germany, also in Switz / shock / D. Mail, 17-7-5. [MB-I; 42. (London Daily Mail, November 17, 1911, p. 7 c. 5.)]


1911 Nov 16 / Sand or ashes 7 days from op. Mars—Cape Verde / Feb 4, 1839. [MB-I; 43. See: 1839 Feb 4, (II; 21).]


1911 Nov 16 / Mars and 7 days phe / Jan 29, 1837. [MB-I; 44. See: 1837 Jan 29, (I; 2167).]


1911 Nov 16 / Phe / See Bull Soc Astro de France, Jan., 1912. / 6 pages. [MB-I; 45. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, January, 1912.)]


1911 Nov 16 / Followed by 2 others / early on 17th / Bull-Amer 1/180 / quoting Nature, Nov. 23, p. 117. [MB-I; 46. “Notes.” Nature, 88 (November 23, 1911): 116-121, at 116-117. “The Earthquake in Germany.” Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 1 (1911): 180.]


1911 Nov 16 / Meteor and q / Bull Seis Soc Amer 3/189. [MB-I; 47. De Montessus de Ballore, Fernand. “The So-Called Luminous Phenomena of Earthquakes, and the Present State of the Problem.” Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 3 (1913): 187-190, at 189-190.]


1911 Nov. 16 / (+) / q, Geermany / NY Times 17-1-6 / 18-3-6 and Switzerland / Good deal of q. [MB-I; 48. (New York Times, November 17, 1911, p. 1 c. 6.) (New York Times, November 18, 1911, p. 3 c. 6.)]


1911 Nov 16 / Mars and sim qs / 1864 / Nov 30 / See Dec 2-26. [MB-I; 49. See: (1864 Nov 30), and, (Dec 2-26).]


1911 Nov 16-17 / 3 days after Mars-Series / Jan 7, 1914. [MB-I; 50. See: (1914 Jan 7).]


1911 Nov. 16-17 / Q and mets / Germany and Switz. / Nature 93/93. [MB-I; 51. "Notes." Nature, 93 (March 26, 1914): 90-94, at 93.]


1911 Nov 16-17 / (+) / Germany / q / evidently great det. met / Bull Seis Soc A 3/189 / Writer says met and q coincidence. [MB-I; 52. De Montessus de Ballore, Fernand. “The So-Called Luminous Phenomena of Earthquakes, and the Present State of the Problem.” Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 3 (1913): 187-190, at 190.]


1911 Nov 17 / Min. distance of Mars. [MB-I; 53. (Confirm. Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, 1911.)]


1911 Nov 17 / N.Y. Herald, 3-4 / Mrs. Matthew Connery, 224 Riverdale Ave., Yonkers, dreamed that her father, Otto Belbar, of Amityville, L.I., had died. Told her husband. Later in morning received telegram, telling of the sudden death of her father. [D; 502. (New York Herald, November 17, 1911, p. 3 c. 4.)]


1911 Nov. 17 / D. Express of, 5-2 / Polts in a house in Tunbridge Wells. Clocks floating from places. A tambourine down from place on wall, striking people gently on heads. Phe began with a table rocking violently. Witnesses quoted were Mr. Fearn and Mr Wymark. Seances were held, at which th ephe occurred; no payment taken. At seances, phe in the dark. [D: 503.1, 503.2. (London Daily Express, November 17, 1911, p. 5 c. 2.)]


1911 Nov 17 / D. Mail, 7-6 / In a Brighton railroad station—for several days, an occasional bullet from unknown source. [D; 504. (London Daily Mail, November 17, 1911, p. 7 c. 6.)]


1911 Nov 18 / D. Express of / A flock of about 15 gray oarrits appeared in a street in Berlin, and picked up a living with pigeons and sparrows. [D; 505. (London Daily Express, November 18, 1911.)]


1911 Nov 19 / 7:50 a.m. / N.Y. Herald 20-11-1 / Eruption of Stromboli. [MB-I; 54. (New York Herald, November 20, 1911, p. 11 c. 1.)]


1911 Nov. 19 / 7:50 a.m. / 2 “terrible explosions” at Stromboli / D. Mail 21-7-5. [MB-I; 55. (London Daily Mail, November 21, 1911, p. 7 c. 5.)]


1911 Nov. 24 / Op Mars / (Al). [MB-I; 56. Opposition of Mars. (Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, 1911.)]


1911 Nov 25 / Prof F.T. del Marinal points out that upon this day and Mars and sun, the aviators Loring Hov[note cut off] and Decroca were [note cut off] in a sudden gust of wind. / E Mec. 94/410 / (B) / Refer back to Sept 25, 1909. / (Op—Nov. 24). [MB-I; 57. (English Mechanic, 94-410. See: (1909 Sept 25).]


1911 Nov. 25, etc. / Explosions / England. [MB-I; 58. (Ref.???)]


1911 Dec. 12 / Great detonating meteor / Roumania / B. Soc A. de F, 1912-64. [MB-I; 59. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1912-64.)]


1911 Dec 14 / [LT], 8-d / q. / Staffordshire. [MB-I; 60.. (London Times, December 14, 1911, p. 8 c.4.)]


1911 Dec 17 / 5 p.m. / Great met nite, 167 miles south of Cairo / Nature 88-449. [MB-I; 61. (Nature, 88-449.)]


1911 Dec 21 / morning / Mt peak top falls. / Colorado / NY Times 22-1-6 / thought at a distance [note cut off]. [MB-I; 62. (New York Times, December 22, 1911, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1911 Dec 22 / 5:10 p.m. / London / brilliant meteor from point in Perseus / Nature 88-358. [MB-I; 63. (Nature, 88-358.)]


1911 Dec. 28 / Disap. / Mrs. Everley case / details / D. Express, Dec 10-1-4, 1912 / 11-1-7. [D; 506. (London Daily Express, December 10, 1912, p. 1 c. 4.) (London Daily Express, December 11, 1912, p. 1 c. 7.)]


1911 Dec 30 / Great fire / Washington Court House, Ohio / NY Times 31-1-6 / 2,000,000 damage. [MB-I; 64. (New York Times, December 31, 1911, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1911 Dec, last / Myst epidemic / Berlin / Nature 88-323. [D; 507. (Nature, 88-323.)]

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