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Observation / Had a parrot in cage on street cor floor—people come in, pass it, not see—hear parrot—look around in surprise, see where bird was. [AF-III; 89.]


[Obsession]:


Obsession / But probably of one part of mind urging the rest. Men have gone to police stations and asked to be put under restraint, because of almost irresistible impulse to commit suicide. [AF-III; 90.]


Obsession / Hard to tell if another char possessed—only be an accentuation of all chars of the first. [AF-III; 91.]


Obsession / Mary Reynold's case / Harpers 20-810. [AF-III; 92. (Harpers, 20-810.)]


Obsession / Possession of self by some parts, or special state, such as a theory. [AF-III; 93.]


Obsession / See Vampire / Francis Bertrand / 1849 / March. [AF-III; 94. See: (Vampire), and, (1849 March).]


Obsession / Young writers by "spirits" of greater writers / Any way this is obsessibility. [AF-III; 95.]


Obsession / Look up case of Gaugain, or however spelled. [SF-III; 338. Paul Gauguin.]


Obsession / Look up case of von Gough. / fanatic preacher, then painter. [SF-III; 339. Vincent Willem van Gogh.]


"Obsidian bomb" of Australia / Nature 63/148. [SF-III; 340. "New South Wales." Nature, 63 (December 6, 1900): 148. Baker, Richard Thomas. "Note on an Obsidian Bomb from New South Wales." Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 34 (1900): 118-120, (plate VI). "Abstract of Proceedings, September 5, 1900." Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 34 (1900): xxix-xxxii. The object is a tektite.]


[Odds]:


Odd cases / B. Eagle, Aug 14-1-7, 1894/ Someone named Dean, in Brooklyn, who had eloped with 2 women. [AF-III; 96. (Brooklyn Eagle, August 14, 1894, p. 1 c. 7.)]


Odds / B. Eagle, some time year 1894—"Ten thousand green lizards passed through Albany on their way to Montreal." Hard to understand till remembered a fad of chameleons for pets, in this period. / So not a procession but a shipment. [AF-III; 97. (Brooklyn Eagled, 1894???)]


[The following three note were clipped together by Fort. AF-III: 98 to 100.]


Odds / With rabbit and deer stories / 1931 / [Irrefutable Proof That Bears Think—in Port Jervis.] / [The Sun]—Nov 4. [AF-III; 98. Newspaper clipping. (New York Sun, November 4, 1931.)]


[Odds] / BO / Rabbit and deer killed / [Man's Voice Kills Rabbit.] / NY Sun, March 26, 1931 / Item / N.Y. Ev. Journal, Oct. 28, 1930 / [Gunner Kills a Buck, But Bullet Never Touches It]. [AF-III; 99. Two newspaper clippings. (New York Sun, March 26, 1931.) (New York Evening Journal, October 28, 1930.)]


[Odds] / 1921 / Dec 8 / D. Chron., 7-3 / Near Aberdeen. A gamekeeper with an empty gun saw a hare and aimed the gun playfully at it. The hare dropped dead. Ac to MM. John McPherson, the taxidermist to whom the body was sent, there was not a mark on it. [AF-III; 100. (London Daily Chronicle, December 8, 1921, p. 7 c. 3.)]


[Odds] / 1806 / Dec 24 / Poland / Soldiers illumined by St. Elmo's fire / See La Nat L or others. / An Reg.—1822-685. [AF-III; 101. (Annual Register, 1822-685.) "Account of a St Elm's Fire seen in Poland." Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, 11 (1824): 404-405.  "Captain [Pierre François Marie] Bourdet gives an account of an electrical appearance he observed in Poland, in the month of December 1806. The winter was remarkably mild, no snow had fallen, but storms were frequent. One evening about 9 o'clock, after a violent gust of wind, the night became so dark that riders could no longer see even the heads of their horses, and so violent a storm arose that the horses were forced to halt; but their ears became speedily luminous at the tops, as also all the long hair of the body, with exception of that of the mane and tail. All the metallic ends of the harness became luminous, as if they were covered with a swarm of luminous worms. The whiskers of M. Bourdet, and that of the other cannoneers, also shone; but neither the eyebrows nor hair became luminous. This appearance continued as long as the gust of wind; that is, about three or four minutes. As soon as the wind ceased, the luminous appearances vanished, and a violent shower of rain fell."  "Phénomène Électrique." Musée des Variétés Littéraires, 1 (no. 1; June 1822 ): 41-42.]


[Odds] / 1823 / Cannon ball in stomach of shark / L.T., Aug 26, 1823, 2/d. [AF-III; 102. (LondonTimes, August 26, 1823, p. 2 c. 4.)]


[Odds] / 1842 / Feb 25 / [LT], 8-a or d / Something for Naturalists. [AF-III; 103. (London Times, February 25, 1842, p. 8 c. 1 or 4???)]


[Odds] / 1851 / Dec 23 / [LT], 8-a / Ext. fossils. [AF-III; 104. (London Times, December 23, 1851, p. 8 c. 1.)]


[Odds] / 1862 / Jan 20 / [LT], 9-a / Traces of the Leichardt Expedition / Jour Sci what? [AF-III; 105. (London Times, January 20, 1862, p. 9 c. 1.) Ludwig Leichardt attempted to cross the Australian interior from east to west, and disappeared in 1848.]


[Odds] / 1870 / ab Oct 1 / Glass globes washed ashore, Scotland / See glass globes, Index, Nature, vol. 3. / fishing floats? [AF-III; 106. “Notes.” Nature, 3 (November 10, 1870): 34-36, at 36. “Ocean Currents.” Nature, 3 (November 17, 1870): 48. Greenwood, George. “Glass Floats off the Isle of Lewis.” Nature, 3 (December 1, 1870): 87. Scott, Robert H. “Glass Floats off the Isle of Lewis.” Nature, 3 (December 8, 1870): 108. “Glass Globes.” Nature, 3 (February 16, 1871): 307. “Glass Globes Washed Ashore.” Inverness Courier, October 13, 1870, p. 5 c. 6.]


[Odds] / 1871 / Feb 18 / N.Y. Times, 4-5 / Three stone heads of Oregon / (Ed). [AF-III; 107. (New York Times, February 18, 1871, p. 4 c. 5.)]


[Odds] / 1872 / Oct 10 / [LT], 11-c / Nov 2-11-c / John Hampden in Court for Libel. [AF-III; 108. (London Times, October 10, 1872, p. 11 c. 3.) (London Times, November 2, 1872, p. 11 c. 3.)]


[Odds] / 1877 / Sept 27, 30 / Dec 8, 9, 22-8-7 / Stone figure of a man in Col. / N.Y. Times. [AF-III; 109. (New York Times, ca. 1877.)]


[Odds] / 1878 / Oct 17 / [LT]. 4-e / Curious coins found in London. [AF-III; 110. (London Times, October 17, 1878, p. 4 c. 5.)]


[Odds] / 1882 / June 15 / Nature of / Carvings found on Mt Pisgah, N. Car, some of old world animals, camels, etc. / Nature 26/160, 243, 267 / metite found here ab. 3 years before. (not same mt). [AF-III; 111. “Notes.” Nature, 26 (June 15, 1882): 158-161, at 160. Rau, Charles. “The Mount Pisgah (U.S.) Stone Carvings.” Nature, 26 (July 13, 1882): 243-244. Valentine, Mann S. “The Mount Pisgah (U.S.) Stone Carvings.” Nature, 26 (July 20, 1882): 267-268. (Meteorite???)]


[Odds] 1885 / Oct 15 / [LT], 9-f / 16-11-d / 26-4-f / Petrified eyes. [AF-III; 112. (London Times, October 15, 1885, p. 9 c. 6.) (London Times, October 16, 1885, p. 11 c. 4.) (London Times, October 26, 1885, p. 4 c. 6.)]


[Odds] / 1886 / Aug. 23 / [LT], Aug 23-8-b / 30-13-e / Sept. 7-4-c / Ancient boat of Brigg / See 9, p. 24. [AF-III; 113. (London Times. August 23, 1886, p. 8 c. 2.) (LOndon Times, August 30, 1886, p. 13 c. 5.) (London Times, September 7, 1886, p. 4 c. 3.) (Ref., p. 24.???)]


[Odds] / + / 1887 / Nov 12 / Religio-Phil. Jour., 6-5 / In a gravel bank, near Aurora, Ind., found 2 12-pound shot and a 6-pound one. Attributed to a skirmish here in War of 1812. [AF-III; 114. (Religio-Philosophical Journal, November 12, 1887, p. 6 c. 5.)]


[Odds] / + / 1888 / Religio-Phil Jour, Nov 10-6-5 / that near Laredo, Mexico, had been picked up a knife with a blade about the length of a bowie knife, thickly overlaid with gold and a cipher pattern mixed with unrecognizable animals. / [Illustration]. [AF-III; 115. (Religio-Philosophical Journal, November 10, 1888, p. 6 c. 5.)]


[Odds] / 1890 / Oct 26 / NY Times, 20-7 / Bell found in Elizabeth. [AF-III; 116. (New York Times, October 26, 1890, p. 20 c. 7.)]


[Odds] / 1890 / Nov 9 / Sun, 25-5 / Story of a monstrous toad in Italy. [AF-III; 117. (New York Sun, November 9, 1890, p. 25 c. 5.)]


[Odds] / 1891 / March 4 / Glb-Dem., 2-7 / That in the solid clay below the coal in No. 20 shaft at Osage, Kansas, John McLeod found an iron ring. [AF-III; 118. (St. Louis Globe-Democrat, March 4, 1891, p. 2 c. 7.)]


[Odds] / 1891 / Sept 6 / N.Y. Recorder, 27-2, from the Chicago Inter-Ocean / Said that "At the last meeting of the Amalgamated Association of Fish Liars, the member from the north side, who goes out twice a year with rod and gun, but never unpacked the former, asked and received permission to read the following from San Francisco"A well-authenticated story comes across from Selma, Fresno Co., of the appearance at that place of two huge winger monsters that resembled the fabled dragonstory of bird-like but featherless beings about  feet high and wings 12 feet longsaid that their tracks in mud were 11 inches wide and 19 long. "Instead of a bill they have a hog's snout." [AF-III: 119.1, 119.2, 119.3. (New York Recorder, September 6, 1891, p. 27 c. 2.)]


[Odds] / 1891 / Nov. 20 / P.L. of / A chain-shot dug up in street of Seattle, Wash. Supposed been a missile from the U.S. sloop Decatur at time of an Indian engagement in Dec., 1855. [AF-III; 120. (Philadelphia Ledger, November 20, 1891.) On October 21, 1891, Gilbert W. Hapgood was digging a posthole and found a cannon ball two feet below the surface of the ground. Several of these cannon balls have been found in Seattle and identified as originating from the Battle of Seattle, fought on January 26, 1856. The small settlement of Seattle was threatened by local Indian tribes; and, sixteen 32-pounder cannon aboard the Decatur and two 9-pounder cannon on shore were used to bombard the surrounding woodlands. The area of the settlement is now known as the Pioneer Square-Skid Road Historic District, in downtown Seattle. The Great Seattle Fire in 1889 burned what remained of the original settlement; and, the reconstruction of the area mandated brick and stone buildings at an elevated level. Cannon balls were also in 1890 and 1905, and a few of these have been collected in Seattle's Museum of History and Industry.]


[Odds] / 1892 / May 4 / Lightning and soldiers of Bourges / Pop Sci Mo, Oct, 1892, vol 41, p. 863. [AF-III; 121. (Popular Science Monthly, 41 (October 1892): 863.)]


[Odds] / 1892 / July 22 / San Fran. Chronicle, 3-1 / Whale bones that had been carefully cut, washing ashore near mouth of the Colmbia River. Supposed from a whaler, but no sign of wreckage. [AF-III: 122.1, 122.2. (San Francisco Chronicle, July 22, 1892, p. 3 c. 1.)]


[Odds] / 1896 / March 25 / Trib, 7-3 / Mounds / Florida. [AF-III; 123. (New York Tribune, March 25, 1896, p. 7 c. 3.)]


[Odds] 1897 / autumn / The wooden ball with "Melfort" on it / Nature 61/31. [AF-III; 124. Mohn, H. “A Wooden Ball of Unknown Origin.” Nature, 61 (November 9, 1899): 31.]


[Odds] / 1907 / July 19 / [LT], 10-f / Discovery of a buried city in Texas. [AF-III; 125. (London Times, July 19, 1907, p. 10 c. 6.)]


[Odds] / 1918 / spring / fish / Arabic / Zanzibar. [AF-III; 126. See: Marks / Fish / Arabic letters, (AF-II; 846).]


[Odds] / + / 1921 / Sept 4 / W. Dispatch of / Cable from New Yorkthe remarkable statue of a woman cut in rocks near Crater Lake, near Portland, Oregon. / I have photo of this. [AF-III; 127. (London Weekly Dispatch, September 4, 1921.) Brown, Richard M. "The Lady of the Woods Revisited." Crater Lake Nature Notes, 21 (no. 43; 1955). The "Lady of the Woods" at Crater Lake National Park was sculpted on a volcanic boulder by Dr. Earl Russell Bush, in October, 1917. Its origin was kept secret and prompted speculations of its being an Indian carving or the remnant of a woman entombed by a lava flow.]


[Odds] / 1926 / April 16 / D. News of / [Whirl-Worms.] [AF-III; 128. Newspaper clipping. (London Daily News, April 16, 1926.)]


[Odds] / A char. like Houdini, in escaping jail. / See Walter Bates. / If this name wrongsee Mary Baker for ref. [AF-III; 129. Bates, Walter. The Mysterious Stranger. New Haven: Maltby, Goldsmith, 1817.]


[Odds] / Amer Notes and Queries 3/236 / Ship in Colorado desert. / Map. How far from sea? [AF-III; 130. "The Ship in the Desert." American Notes and Queries, 3 September 14, 1889): 236.

"In the first place, the frame of the vessel is not stranded in any part of the depression noted above, but is situated many miles away at an altitude of several hundred feet above the sea-level. Secondly, the alleged wreck is not the dismantled hulk of a deep-water vessel, on the contrary, it was originally designed as a ferry-boat of dimensions so small that two men might paddle or 'pole' it across the river." "Timber is scarce in the region through which the river flows, and when the projector of the enterprise determined on building a new boat he found it necessary to lay the frame at a distance of many miles from the ferry-landing, because there was no available lumber nearer at hand. When at length the frame was completed, the builder sought to drag it to the landing by means of half a score or more of bull-teams. But the frame was heavy, the sand deep, and the weather intensely hot, as a result, most of the teams perished for want of water, and the half-framed boat was abandoned to the mercy of the sand storms. The projector of the enterprise was living near the Colorado River as late as 1884 or '85." "Regular Meeting, November 21st, 1870." Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, s. 1, 4 (1868-1872): 145-147. "Mr. Hanks read a carefully prepared report upon the subject of the remains of a ship alleged to have been seen in the Colorado Desert, forty miles north of Fort Yuma, near the San Bernardino Road. He gave the newspaper history of the subject, and the result of his correspondence with various parties at San Bernardino, Los Angeles and San Diego. His enquiries had elicited nothing but hearsay evidence. There is positive testimony that numerous persons have seen at the distance of a few miles, an object that they believed to be the wreck of a large ship imbedded in the sand, at a spot which is watery and inaccessible during portions of the year."]


[Odds] / + / Apres talk. [AF-III; 131. (Ref.???)]


[Odds] / + / A ten-pound cannon ball dug up at Lakeside, Indiana, Said to be a relic of times when Mad Anthony Wayne was in command "thereabouts". / Chicago Citizen, Nov. 19, 1892. [AF-III; 132. (Chicago Citizen, November 19, 1892.)]


[Odds] / Antennae along back = Longicornisjava / other like itJave / Brass Beetle / N.S. Wales / (Cinder beetle) / (Clay mys xx / Brazil) / (Dicranoirhina oberthure / E Africa / big green one) / (other green one / Sternocera / S. India) / (Goliath beetle / Stag beetle). [AF-III; 133. (Refs.???)]


[Odds] / [Believe It Or Not] / N.Y. Ev. Post, Jan. 91928. [AF-III; 134. (New York Evening Post, January 9, 1928.)]


[Odds] / Can always get something on anybody. / [One Joke, Told to Police, Costs Proud Inventor $5] / N.Y. Herald Trib, 1927, Sept 23. [AF-III; 135. (New York Herald Tribune, September 23, 1927.)]


[Odds] / Chemical carried from a drawer and placed above rafters, as discovered after a fireattrib to rats. Oxide of uranium. / Mag of Pop Sci 1/208 / 26 bottles. [AF-III; 136. (Magazine of Popular Science, 1-208.)]


[Odds] / Sent by H.W. Beck of Philadelphia / [Cherry Tree Bears Pear, Two Crops on Apple Tree] / Phil Pub Ledger, Oct 10, 1931. [A-III; 137. Newspaper clipping. (Philadelphia Public Ledger, October 10, 1931.)]


[Odds] / W Telegram, Jan 26, 1932 / [untitled article about a stolen elm tree in Chicago]. [AF-III; 138. Newspaper clipping. (New York World Telegram, January 26, 1932.)]


[Odds] / [Chickens' Growth Speeded by Rays] / [The New York Times, March 21, 1931, page 18]. [AF-III; 139. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, March 21, 1931, p. 18.)]


[Odds] / Sun, Jan 7, 1930 / [Colt Born With Eight Legs.] [AF-III; 140. Newspaper clipping. (New York Sun, January 7, 1930.)]


[Odds] / NY Times, March 11, 1931 / [Eye Tests For New Motorists To Be Urged in Every State]. [AF-III; 141. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, March 11, 1931.)]


[Odds] / Extraordinary heat prostrations in a crowd / N.W. Rev 1912/1169. [AF-III; 142. (N.W. Review, 1912-1169.)]


[Odds] / New Castle, (Pa.) News, May 3, / [Finds Strange Rock On Wimer Property]. [AF-III; 143. Newspaper clipping. (New Castle News, May 3, 1926, p. 9; @ Newspaperarchive.com.)]


[Odds] / Fires in racetrack buildings / May-June, 1917 / Herald, June 19-3-7. [AF-III; 144. (New York Herald, June 19, 1917, p. 3 c. 7.)]


[Odds] / 1927 / [45 Soldiers Shocked By Lightning Bolt] / [Aug. 10]NY Ev. Sun. [AF-III; 145. Newspaper clipping. (New York Evening Sun, August 10, 1927.)]


[Odds] / [Girl Breaks Neck Trying to Peel an Onion with Teeth]. [AF-III; 146. Newspaper clipping. (Unidentified source, no date.???)]


[The following three note were clipped together by Fort, AF-III: 147 to 149.]


[Odds] / + / "Grass grows in man's eye. / Hayseed sprouted in corner of eye. Case treated at Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary. / D. News, 1924June 23. [AF-III; 147. (London Daily News, June 23, 1924.)]


[Odds] / + / On a farm, at Tregear, near Truro, two bullocks with corn growing three inches high on their backs. / Lloyd's W. News, Jan 17, 1909 / A mystery is of two. [AF-III; 148. (Lloyd's Weekly News, January 17, 1909.)]


[Odds] / + / Hair growing on plaster casts / N and Q 6/8/527. [AF-III; 149. (Notes and Queries, s. 6 v. 8 p. 527.)]


[Odds] / [Holy Shroud Exhibited to Royalty in Turin; Believed to Have Covered Saviour at Burial] / [The New York Times, May 4, 1931.] [AF-III; 150. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, May 4, 1931.)]


[Odds] / + / Infinite can not have parts, in the sense of can't be ¼ or ½ of the infinite. [AF-III; 151.]


[Odds] / In the Philosophy of Mysterious Agents, published in 1853, by E.C. Rogers, told that in some houses in New York mysterious phe been noted. Persons touching gas pipes and other metals gave out sparks. Prof. Loomis investigated and said it was electricity excited by friction of feet on carpets. The writer argues that if this som should be similar phe in other houses with similar carpets. It seems that this phe well known to me when I was a boy. Was at an earlier time not well known. [AF-III: 152.1, 152.2. (Rogers, Edward Coit. Philosophy of Mysterious Agents, Human And Mundane. Boston: J. P. Jewett, 1853.)]


[Odds] / In village of Boudjah, near Smyrna, cross 5 feet long woven by silk worms. / Land and Water, July 28, 1877. [AF-III; 153. (Land and Water, July 28, 1877.)]


[Odds] / Lemon tree in thumb / N.Y. Sun, Dec 13, 1910 / Washington, D.C. / William G. Barron, a waitera swelling of one of his thumbsm painful, went to a surgeon who lanced it, and "out popped a lemon tree," or a lemon seed that had started to grow. "How the seed got into the thumb, the surgeons are puzzled to explain." [AF-III: 154.1, 154.2. (New York Sun, December 13, 1910.)]


[Odds] / Lieut de Houghton of H.M.S. Beagle writes that while off an island of the Torres Straits he was told by a white inhabitant that there was a tree that took up bones cast under it. / Land and Water, Sept 3, 1881) / He saw the tree laden with bones and because of the slenderness of branches was sure that no one had climbed up and placed the bones. [AF-III: 155.1, 155.2. (Land and Water, September 3, 1881.)]


[Odds] / Lopping off heads in China. Dusturbance outside a vessel in a harbor. Chinamen thrust heads out of port-holesthe lop. [AF-III; 156. (Ref.???)]


[Odds] / + / Man and his tree die ab. same time. / Religio-Phil Jour, 1884, Nov 15-6-4 / Perhaps one been living on the other. [AF-III; 157. (Religio-Philosophical Journal, November 15, 1884, p. 6 c. 4.)]


[Odds] / + / Man sent to lunatic asylum. Said he was Sir Roger Tichborne, / D. Telegraph, 1875, Sept. 15-3-4. [AF-III; 158. (London Daily Telegraph, September 15, 1875, p. 3 c. 4.)]


[Odds] / Met and discov of men escaping from Ft Sumterdetails / Am J. Sci 2/41/276. [AF-III; 159. (American Journal of Science, s. 2 v. 41, 276.)]


[Odds] / + / Minerals / pseudomorphs / mica with the form of tourmaline. [AF-III; 160. (Ref.???)]


[Odds] / Morse accused of stealing the telegraph idea / C.R. 8-345. [AF-III; 161. (Comptes Rendus, 8-345.)]


[Odds] / Mystic ball found north of Lofoton / Nature 61/31 / "Melfort" in Latin Chars on it. [AF-III; 162. Mohn, H. “A Wooden Ball of Unknown Origin.” Nature, 61 (November 9, 1899): 31.]


[Odds] / Napoleon took for a maxim that the greater number almost always wins over the lesser. He could apply this when the lesser by concentrating his all upon a division of a more numerous force. [AF-III; 163. (Ref.???)]


[Odds] / + / Naturalist's World, Feb., 1887That recently near Colusa, California, wild goose shot, and embedded in its breastm an arrow-head made of ivory. Supposed must have been an Eskimo. Perhaps made from tusk of a walrus. [AF-III; 164. (Naturalist's World, February 1887.)]


[Odds] / + / N.Y. Herald, 1892, June 5-17-4 / Mrs John H. Pelmbet, of Jersey City, violently ill in Januarysymptoms of acute gastritis. Could take no solid food. Lost flesh and wasted away. Ab. June 1, vomitted an eel, 9 inches long. Dr. Putnam, of J. City, quoted. [AF-III; 165. (New York Herald, June 5, 1892, p. 17 c. 4.)]


[Odds] / Old tomb broken into third time / Trib, 1914, 20-14-7. [AF-III; 166. (New York Tribune, (Month???) 20, 1914, p. 14 c. 7.)]


[Odds] / [Over-Seas Items.] / Dec 16, 1924 / D. Mail. [AF-II; 167. Newspaper clipping. (London Daily Mail, December 16, 1924.)]


[Odds] / People at Schwartz, Tyrol, July 17, 1820in churches at annual day of thanksgiving for being spared from qs since July 17, 1670, when violent q and great damage. / London Mag 2/329. [AF-III; 168. (London Magazine, 2-329.)]


[Odds] / Pleiades and a group of the Azores. [AF-III; 169. (Ref.???)]


[Odds] / + / q., time of feast. / Oct 23, 1907. [AF-III; 170. See: (1907 Oct 23).]


[Odds] / 1925 / Dec 10 / D. Express / [Royal Relic on an Arctic Island.] [AF-III; 171. Newspaper clipping. (London Daily Express, December 10, 1925.)]


[Odds] / + / San Fran Chronicle, Feb 16-1-3, 1923 / That in a mine of the Springfield Tunnel and Development Co., lodged among stones of an ancient river bottom, 200 feet below present surface of ground, at Sonora, miners found a broken slab of stone, ab 12 inches by 9. Hieroglyphics on it. Characters from 3 to 4 inches high, and regular in shape. Part of a broken slab. Said would be sent to the University of California. [AF-III: 172.1, 172.2.) San Francisco Chronicle, February 16, 1923, p. 1 c. 3.)]


[Odds] / + / Ship or other vessel found buried 10 miles north of Cape Town / Q.J. Roy Inst 5-150. [AF-III; 173. (Quarterly Journal of the Royal Institute. 5-150.)]


[Odds] / Singular insurrection in Madagascar / L.T., 1823, Sept 30-2-d. [AF-III; 174. (London Times, September 30, 1823, [. 2 c. 4.)]


[Odds] / Herald Trib, Oct [4, 1927] / [Sir James Denham Dies; Called "Mystery Knight"]. [AF-III; 175. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald Tribune, October 4, 1927.)]


[Odds] / + / Stone dug up in N. Zealand / Tran N.Z. Institute 1902-115 / Ac. 1990. [AF-III; 176. (Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1902-115.)]


[Odds] / Strange coinc of snow rollers appearing and then next year at same place / Sc Am 110/159, 243 / Coinc is greaterit occurred first time simultaneously. / Sc Am 108/1961 / (numb[note cut off]). [AF-III; 177. “Wind-rolled Snowballs.” Scientific American, n.s., 108 (March 1, 1913): 196. Moon, T.J. “Snow Rollers.” Scientific American, n.s., 110 (February 21, 1914): 159.]


[Odds[ / streak / [illustration. [AF-III; 178. (Ref.???)]


[Odds] / + / Ev. Star, [note cut off]r 2, 1926.] / [The Singed Bones.] [AF-III; 179. Newspaper clipping. (London Evening Star, (Month???) 2, 1926.)]


[Odds] / Two faced? He's pentagonal-dodecahdronic. [AF-III; 180. (Ref.???)]


[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort. AF-III: 181 & 182.]


[Odds] / [Woman's Hair Embedded in Tree an Unsolved Mystery] / N.Y. Sun, Dec 4, 1930. [AF-III; 181. Newspaper clipping. (New York Sun, December 4, 1930.)]


[Odds] / Lock of hair found in heart of hickory tree, fifty years old, at Rutherford Station, Pa / B. Eagle, Dec 13-4-6, 1892. [AF-III; 182. (Brooklyn Eagle, December 13, 1892, p. 4 c. 6.)]


[Odds] / N.Y. Herald Tribune, July 15, 1931, [page 5] / [Wounded Arm, Pigeon Limps Back to Jersey]. [AF-III; 183. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald Tribune, July 15, 1931.)]


[Odds] / [note crumbling] hig[note crumbling] / J Ps. 9/29 / Dale Owen's / footfalls / etc. / Jour Psychic Research 2/29. [AF-III; 184. (Possibly: T.Ps, 9/29.???) (Journal of Psychical Research, 2-29.)]


[Odds] / Sun, Aug 11-[note cut off] / Workmen found in a gravel bed of Western Railway, Alabama, objects of silvercoronet, bracelets, etc. / "Recently." [AF-III; 185. (New York Sun, August 11, ???)]


Odds / Myst of a tomb / Myst of a house appearing = April, 1924. [MB-I; 388. See: 1924 April 1, (E; 603).]


[Odds] / A butterfly that chased birds / Field, July 31, 1920. [MB-I; 389. (Field, July 31, 1920; not at BNA.)]


[Odds] / Herald Trib, Oct 29, 1927 / [Adam, 5,931 Years Old; His Birthday Unnoticed]. [MB-I; 390. (New York Herald Tribune, October 27, 1927.)]


[Odds] / 1931 / Oct 14 / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / [Apples on Locust] / McDaniel. [MB-I; 391. Newspaper clipping. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 14, 1931.)]


[Odds] / Birth without male element / Trib, 1900, Dec 28-4-3. [MB-I; 392. "Life Produced Without Male Element." New York Tribune, December 28, 1900, p. 4 c. 3. Loeb, Jacques. Artificial Parthengensis and Fertilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1913.]


[Odds] / + / Black Hole of Calcutta Challenged / NQ, July-Dec, 1925 / See Calcutta. [MB-I; 393. (Notes and Queries, v. 149  (July-December 1925): 88, 121, 230, 270, 279, 283, 392, 426, 448???)]

Fielding-Hall, H. "The Black Hole of Calcutta." Notes and Queries, s. 12 v. 1 (February 5, 1916): 108.

Lewis, Penry. "The Back Hole of Calcutta." Notes and Queries, s. 12 v. 1 (February 26, 1916): 175.]


[Odds] / City of Patterson awarded against Brandenburg. / June 24arrested for 1908 wife abandonment. [MB-I; 394. (Ref.???)]


[Odds] / Divan and headless bodies / Family with delusion of headless ghosts / [L]T, Nov 4, 1867, 7/d. [MB-I; 395. (London Times, November 4, 1867, p. 7 c. 4.)]


[Odds] / 1931 / McDaniel / [Duck Owner Declares Fowl Brought by Rain] / Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Sept 22. [MB-I; 396. Newspaper clipping. (Pittsburgh Post Gazette, September 22, 1931.)]


[Odds] / Duck with a seaweed tail / Strand Magazine 17-355. [MB-I; 397. "A Duck with a Seaweed Tail." Strand Magazine, 17 (March 1899): 355.]


[Odds] / [May 28, 1925], D. Mail / [Electrocuted in an Aeroplane.] / May 26. [MB-I; 398. Newspaper clipping. ("Electrocuted in an Aeroplane." London Daily Mail, May 28, 1925, p. 9 c. 5.)]


[Odds] / Eleusinian Mysteries / Contemporary Review (1880) 37-847 / 38-121, 412. [MB-I; 399.

Lenormant, François. "The Eleusinian Mysteries." Contemporary Review, 37 (1880): 847-871; and, 38 (July & September, 1880): 141-149 & 412-433.]


[Odds] / + / Ev. Standard, Ap 12, 1880, quoting the "Vigie de Cherbourg, child aged 6 months, Augustine Lavis, of Cherbourg, upon whose neck feathers were growing. Twenty-three had appeared, each having appeared, matured, and fallen off before another came. [MB-I; 400. (London Evening Standard, April 12, 1880; not found here.) "A Strange Freak of Nature." Guernsey Star, April 15, 1880, p. 4 c. 5. "At last the rara avis has been found: the most marvellous phenomenon which has ever been seen since the world existed has been discovered." We quote from tho Vigie de Cherbourg, which is responsible for the authenticity of the following details concerning the living infant wonder at present domiciled at Cherbourg, but shortly to be despatched to Paris in order to be presented to the French Academy of Medicine. The phenomenon is a baby, aged six months, named Augustine Lavir, the nape of whose neck has the singular gift of producing an uninterrupted succession of feathers. Twenty-three have already sprouted, reached maturity, and fallen off, to be carefully stored up by the infant's father, a working man, whose fortune may be considered made if the amazing story turns out correct. The manner in which these feathers grow is thus described. A pimple forms on the nape of the neck, quite close to the roots of the hair. At the expiration of a certain time the pimple blossoms into a feather, the child, at the moment when it appears, seeming to experience a slight uneasiness. The feather, which is curved and gilded, attains, when fully grown, from ten to twelve centimetres in length. When it falls a few drops of a white-ish colour issue from the pimple, which then heals, leaving no trace of its existence for a while until another appears, enclosing the germ of another feather. A curious circumstance, says the Vigie, is that the feather remains six days on the infant's neck when fully grown before falling, and that its successor takes as many days to sprout as its predecessor to reach maturity. The father of the phenomenal child intends bringing it to Paris within a few days in order to ask science to investigate the causes of this freak of nature which, if it really exists, is certainly one of the strangest one has heard of recently."]


[Odds] / 1925 / July 23 / D. Mail of / [Explosion Riddle.] [MB-I; 401. Newspaper clipping. (London Daily Mail, July 23, 1925.)]


[Odds] / 1926 / Feb. 16 . D. Express of / [Father's Wound Duplicated in a Child.] [MB-I; 402. Newspaper clipping. (London Daily Express, February 16, 1926; not at BNA.)]


[Odds] / (Fo.) / Rock objects found deep in rock. / stone pillar and wheel / Eng Mec 4/183. [MB-I; 403. "A Fact for Geologists." English Mechanic, 4   (no. 90; December 14, 1866): 183."A Fact for Geologists." Cornish Telegraph, (December 5, 1866, p. 4 c. 6. "A Fact for Geologists." Cornish Telegraph, October 31, 1866, p. 3 c. 1. "In sinking a shaft at the Garden tin mine, in Morvah, the men have met with a perfext pillar, about eight inches in diameter, standing, so to speak, in the solid rock, and very different in its composition from the surrounding granite. And, what is stranger still, at the base of this pillar they have come upon what say is a fly-wheel of the same material. Large pieces, both of the pillar and wheel, were exhibited to the adventurers at the account meeting on Friday last, and some portions of both are still left unbroken in the rock, that the curious may see for themselves."]


[Odds] / + / Footprint 4 feet long, in granite, reported from Johannesburg / N and Q., 148-164. [MB-I; 404. (Notes and Queries, v. 148 (1925): 164.)]


[Odds] / Girl strangely hit on head. / by a flower pot? / NY Times, 1911, Dec 24-1-6. [MB-I; 405. (New York Times, December 24, 1911, p. 1 c. 6.)]


[Odds] / + / Kings Evil, or "touching for evil" / That did succeed but not by supposed means. / That may be wrongly interpreted phe today that if understood greatly developed. [MB-I; 406. The "King's Evil" was scrofula, (which was believed could be cured by the king's touch).]


[Odds] / + / ["Locked in a City Office."] / This = example of things supposed not to be, but that are. / Ev. Standard, Aug. 12, 1926. [MB-I; 407. (London Evening Standard, August 12, 1926.)]


[Odds] / + / Message in unknown language / Medium and Daybreak 2/83. [MB-I; 408. Cogman, Robert. "The Unknown Tongue." Medium and Daybreak, 2 (no. 49; March 10, 1871): 83. "Extraordinary Phenomena." Medium and Daybreak, 1 (no. 29; October 21, 1870): 228-229. "As a medium Mr. Cogman is not so generally known, as he has been more recently developed, and has not enjoyed favourable opportunities for making his powers public. About Christmas last he became a trance-medium, and in that state spoke in several languages. One of these is an 'unknown tongue,' understood to be caused by a spirit from some tribe in central Africa which is not now existent upon earth."]


[Odds] / [More Snake Swallowing] / NY Times, Nov. 15, 1931. [MB-I; 409. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, November 15, 1931.)]


[Odds] / [Oregon Whale Slayers Freed; Ethelbert Is Rulsed Not a Fish] / NY Times, Dec. 24, 1931. [MB-I; 410. (New York Times, Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, December 24, 1931.)]


[Odds] / [Ethelbert's Predecessor.] / [The New York Times, after Nov. 14, 1931.] [MB-I; 411. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, after November 14, 1931.)]


[Odds] / [Patriot Bears Kittens of Red, White and Blue.] / [source unidentified] / [Sept 19.] [MB-I; 412. Newspaper clipping. (Unidentified source, September 19, ???)]


[Odds] / + / Rains after battles 1500 years before artillery invented / Nature 98-229. [MB-I; 413. “Artillery and Rainfall.” Nature, 98 (November 23, 1916): 229.]


[Odds] / Runs on banks / Nov-Dec, 1878 / Herald, Dec 8-5-6 / One case see before. [MB-I; 414. “Bank Run Ended.” New York Herald, December 8, 1878, p. 5 c. 6.]


[Odds] / + / Sci discoveries anticipated in 1817 / N.Q. 12-4-184. [MB-I; 415. Dodgson, Edward Spencer. "Scientific Discoveries Anticipated. Notes and Queries, s. 12 v. 4 (July 1918): 184. "Voyez ce cercle immense, resplendissant de lumiere, au milieu de la nuit sombre qui l'environne: il a la propriété admirable de faire pénétrer la vue à travers les corps opaques qu'on lui oppose, quelle que soit leur épaisseur, et rapprocher en même temps les objets et les sons, de manière à permettre de voir et d'entendre ce qui se passe même très loin de nous." ) (Henriette de C. Valoé: conte; suivi du Récit de Mr. B**, ou, La poule blanche." London: J. Compton, 1817, 37. @ Princeton, Yale, Cambridge, Manchester.)]


[Odds] / Story that Crown Prince Rudolph was killed by a ghost / Relig. Phil Jour, May 4, 1889, p. 6. [MB-I; 416. "Rudolphe's Death." Religio-Philosophical Journal, 46 (no. 11;  May 4, 1889): 6, (c. 4). This article attributes the Mayerling incident to Crown Prince Rudolf's conjuring up a spirit, which took possession of Baroness Vetsera, departed her body and leaving it dead, and prompted his suicide.]


[Odds] / The æpyornis egg floating in sea / See Field, 1893 (vol. 2), near top of index under Miscellaneous or Naturalists. [MB-I; 417. (Field, 1893 v. 82.) "Echoes of Science." London Globe, December 8, 1893, p. 6 c. 1. "The egg of the Æpyornis recently brought to England was discovered by some natives of Madagascar, about 20 miles south of St. Augustine’s Bay, floating on the calm sea, within 20 yards of the beach. It is supposed to have been washed away from the sandy foreshore hurricane in the early part this year. The finders thought it might valuable, and showed it about, until they found purchaser in Mr. Proctor, of Tamatave and London." "Natural History Notes." Scientific American, n.s., 69 (November, 1893): 339.]


[Odds / [Dec.] 14, [1927.] / Herald Tribune / [The Pioneer "Skyscraper"]. [MB-I; 418. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald Tribune, December 14, 1927.)]


[Odds] / D. Express, Ap. 7, 1926 / [The Soul of the Chimpanzee.] [MB-I; 419. (London Daily Express, April 7, 1926.)]


[Odds] / The ultimate of anything cannot be last thing. Ultimate reason in a state where nothing to reason aboutjustice where nothing to be just about. / Also only one ultimate. [MB-I; 420.]


[Odds] / [Tree Bangs at Forester.] / NY Times, Feb. 8, 1932. [MB-I; 421. (New York Times, February 8, 1932.)]


[Odds] / Woman said be possessed by spirit of another who had died / NY Herald, 1895, Feb 17-4-11-5. [MB-I; 422. "Had Another Spirit." New York Herald, February 17, 1895, s. 4 p. 11 c. 5-6. The article briefly reviews the spiritual possession of Lurancy Vennum, (the Watseka Wonder). See: 1877 July 11, (B: 154 to 159).]


[Odds] / + / Yarn of decapitated criminals. Heads put on and restored to life. / N.Y. Times, Nov 4-2-4, 1869. [MB-I; 423. (New York Times, November 4, 1869, p. 2 c. 4.)]


[Odds] / #14 / [untitled article about ancient stone in the East Riding of Yorkshire] / 14 / [The Wide World], [dated unidentified], [page 407]. [MB-I; 424. Magazine clipping. (Wide World Magazine, v. ??? p. 407; not vol. 14).]


[Odds] / [fragment of clipping about Ada Rehan and Daly] / [source unidentified]. [MB-I; 425. Newspaper clipping. (Unidentified source and date.)]


Organism / Earth's magnetic pole = 1500 miles from N. Pole. / This is ab 23 degrees. / Tilt of earth said to be ab. 23 degrees. / Well? [AF-III; 186. (Confirm.)]


[Other Phe]:


[Other phe] / [Fragmentsee illustration.] [SF-V; 128.2. (Ref.???)]


[Other phe] / Onondaga Lake / See Rev of Seybert Commission Report / Richmond / Y.R.C. [SF-V; 129. Richmond, Almon Benson. What I Saw at Cassdaga Lake: A Review of the Seybert Commissioners' Report. Boston: Colby & Rich, 1888. Richmond's book was a criticism of the Seybert Commission's Report concerning fraudulent spirutalists, such as those Richmond enocuntered at Cassadaga Lake, New York, (not Onongada Lake).]


[Other phe] Onand[aga] Seal / NY Times, May 2, 1882 / That a hair s[eal] had been shot. [SF-V; 130. ("Hair seal shot in Onondaga Lake." New York Times, May 2, 1882, p. 8 c. 7.) ("Yesterday," reported by Syracuse Standard of April 29, 1882. Ogensburg Journal, May 2, 1882, p. 3 c. 5.)]


[Other phe] / [Arizona Crater Meteor Exploded on Impact with Earth, Says Astronomers] / Herald Tribune, Nov. 23, 1931. [SF-V; 131. (New York Herald Tribune, November 23, 1931.)]


[Other phe] / 1928 / Feb 22, H. Tribune / [Dog That Talks Demonstrates in New York Home]. [SF-V; 132. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald Tribune, February 22, 1928.)]


[Other phe] / + / Coon Butte / Nature 96-596. [SF-V; 133. "A Terrestrial Crater of the Lunar Type." Nature, 96 (January 27, 1916): 595-596.]


[Other phe] / + / Crater Lake, Oregon / Nature 57-375. [SF-V; 134. Mill, Hugh Robert. "Crater Lake, Oregon." Nature, 57 (February 17, 1898): 375-376.]


[The following eleven notes were clipped together by Fort. SF-V: 135 to 145.]


[Other phe] / Fancher / Writer of the book is Judge Dailey. [SF-V; 135. (Ref.???)]


[Other phe] / Fancher / Opened a store-speaking tube from her room to the store below. / Religio-Philosophical Jour, June 28, 1890. [SF-V; 136. (Religio-Philosophical Journal, June 28, 1890.)]


[Other phe] / Fancher / Substitution / At times sightless, but "saw". [SF-V; 137. (Ref.???)]


[Other phe] / Fancher / That she was hypnotized. / See green note on Hypnotism. [SF-V; 138. (Ref.???)]


[Other phe/] / Fancher / Hammond, W.H. / charges against / 1877, N.Y. Times Index, p. 9, Jan-July. [SF-V; 139. (New York Times Index, 1877 Jan-July, p. 9.)]


[Other phe] / Fancher / See Cent Library, 133.9H / A.C. Holmes. "Facts of Psychic Science." [SF-V; 140. Sdd: (Holms, Facts of Psychic Science,)]


[Other phe] / fasting / Fasting Girls / Wm. H. Hammond, M.D. / (W R M). [SF-V; 141. (Hammond, Fasting Girls.)]


[Other phe] / Fancher / For a series, see if Mary Reynolds died ab. time Fancher taken. / I think Mary died ab 1859. / Reynolds 1811-59 / Roff 65 / Fancher 65 - 74? . Vennum 77. [SF-V; 142. (Refs.???)]


[other phe] Fancher / Holms, p. 104 / Spirits hostile  to each other. When in one control, crochet work done in another be undone. [SF-V; 143. (Holms. Facts of Psychic Science, p. 104.)]


[Other phe] / Fancher / The German stigmatist fasted more than a year. / See Ap 8, 1928. [SF-V; 144. See: (1928 Ap 8).]


[Other phe] / Fancher / Sleepers / Walkers. / N.Y. Times, Feb. 23-3-6, 1880 / Account of a man named Adams, of Ottawa, much upset by a shock during a th. storm. Had not slept for 10 months. No ill effects. [SF-V; 145. (New York Times, February 23, 1880, p. 3 c. 6.)]


[Other phe] / Fusco / N.Y. Times, Aug 24-Sept 28, 1924 / 109 volumes of Livy's History of Rome found by Prof Martino-Fuscoauthenticity doubted when Prof M-F disappearsstory confirmedstory confirmed again by Prof. Dells. / Sept. 6Fusco deniessays a mistake. / 7interview with Prof. Nicola Barone"The New York Times can announce officially that Prof de M-F's discovery is quite authentic. / Prof F in hiding. / Prof R S. Conway, of Manchester, England, convinced of the discovery, because of Prof M-F's integrity and competenceTo suggest fraud would be a "disgrace to the national intelligence". / 17M-F said to have declared his regret for his indiscretions. Prof Conway marvels at the "extravagant announcement" and "pciturresque and sensational fiction", and is rather all three himself asking whether, as suggested by a Zurich newspaper, could be a "mysterious and religious intrigue" . / Seems he had simply come upon data indicating the books existed, and was so sure of finding them, he announced had found them. / Great excitement‎—Italian Govt excited, fearing some American millionaire get it—police watching for this—100 telegrams a day—offers from publishers. Director of the Neapolitan Library / —demonstration in Naples in his honor—Prof R. S Conway convinced of the books' authenticity—no such books found—only some data about them. [SF-V: 146.1 to 146.6. (New York Times, August 24, 1924, to September 28, 1924.)]


[The following three notes were clipped together by Fort. SF-V: 147, 148, & 149.]


[Other phe] / [Monster in Ice Has Long Snout] / N.Y. Sun, Nov 28, 1930. [SF-V; 147. Newspaper clipping. (New York Sun, November 28, 1930.)]


[Other phe] [Ice Bares Strange Animal] / NY Times, Nov. 26, 1930. [SF-V; 148. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, November 26, 1930.)]


[Other phe] / 1930 / Nov. 28 / Ev. World, [page 33] / [Confirm Finding of Pre-Historic Monster in Ice.]. [SF-V; 149. Newspaper clipping. (New York Evening World, November 28, 1930, p. 33.)]


[Other phe] / [Magic on the Ivory Coast] / [source unidentified] / Most persons I have known—said to be psychic—were generally not of a high order, mentally. Is this nature's compensation?—Can we explain the substance of this article on this premise, or the possible "hangover" of earlier knowledge possessed by the race and still handed down among the ancient peoples. C.S.M. / Fakir Basket Trick / Clipping sent by Charles McDaniel, 816 Ivy St, East Liberty P.O., Pittsburgh, Pa. [SF-V: 150.1, 150.2. Magazine clipping. (Ladies Home Journal, 1930.)]


[Other phe] / [The Wonder Cave Maraa] / [source unidentified] / #3. [SF-V; 151. Newspaper clipping. (Unidentified source, no date.)]


[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort. SF-V: 152 & 153.]


[Other phe] / [Nuremberg 'Iron Virgin' Revealed As Spurious Torture Instrument] / H-Trib, March 8, 1931. [SF-V; 152. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald-Tribune, March 8, 1931.)]


[Other phe] / 1931 / "Iron Maiden" Menaced.] / [The New York Times]—Feb 15. [SF-V; 153. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, February 15, 1931.)]


[Other phe] / Phantom City / Maine / Randolph Searles, West Orange, N.J. / [typescript] / One of the New York papers, a Sunday edition, magazine section, date and name of paper not recorded. [SF-V; 154. Typescript. (New York newspaper, no date.)]


[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort, SF-V: 155 & 156.]


[Other phe] / [Plot to Poison Wilson Charged in New Book] / [source unidentified]. [SF-V; 155. Newspaper clipping. (Unidentified source, no date.)]


[Other phe] / [The American Black Chamber.] / Review in NY Times Book Review, June 14, 1931. [SF-V; 156. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times Book Review, June 14, 1931.)]


[Other phe] / Pressure upon people at times of phe / See Hair (China). / See late in Oct., 1891. [SF-V; 157. See: (1891 Oct).]


[Other phe] / [Relief for the Layman.] / [The Sun, September 3, 1930, page 22]. [SF-V; 158. Newspaper clipping. (New York Sun, September 3, 1930, p. 22.)]


[Other phe] / "Six-weeks-old baby that talked mysteriously then died." / Religio-Philosophical Journal, Feb 5, 1876, p. 1 / YRA ++. [SF-V; 159. (Religio-Philsophical Journal, February 5, 1876, p. 1.)]


[Other phe] / Smyth / In the year 1883, W.M. Flinders Petrie's book, The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, was published. / Smyth's work in 1865. / Four base lines differed by several inches—mean was 9068.8 inches. / Pyraclinic, ac to Prof. Smyth's measurements. Ac to him the height of the pyramid symbolized the distance of the sun. / Perhaps Smyth;s measurements right enough in his time and Petrie's right enough in his time, because there had been settling and other distortions in the meantime—but Smyth gave what he considered the absolute measurements and he can not consider changes in a few years after his measurements, without also considering changes in thousands of years before his measurements. / Ac to Petrie other mistakes—in one of the passages of the Pyramid, 3 inches wrong. / Petrie, that Grand Gallery of the Pyramid is 1883.6 inches, and not 1882.8—8 tenth. Piazzi had predicted that in 8th month of 1882m going to be direst of catastrophes on this earth. / Smyth not the founder but had measured and written harmonically with the ideas of John Taylor, of London, year 1859. / Computations were largely in British inches and British pounds, supposed to be inspired by God, whose standards were British standards. [SF-V: 160.1 to 160.6. (Flinders Petrie, W.M., The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, pp. 143, 163.) ("Pyraclinic"; or pyrmid inch???)]


[Other phe] / Smyth / For records of the latest survey of the Great Pyramid, (1925), by J. H Cole, Survey of Egypt Paper, no. 39. Agreement with Petrie's determinations are close—difference for the mean length of base lines is 6 tenths of an inch. [SF-V; 161. Cole, James Humphrey. Determination of the Exact Size and Orientation of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Survey of Egypt Paper No. 39, Cairo: Government Press, 1925, 7.]


[Other phe] / The Alaska Mirage discussed in San Francisco, ab July 7, 1889. [SF-V; 162. See: (1889 ab July 7).]


[Other phe] [Truck Gardener Discovers Comet.] / [source unidentified]. [SF-V; 163. Newspaper clipping. (Unidentified source, no date.)]


[Other phe] / 18[note cut off] / Ap. 30 / Hailstorm, 100 miles East of Delhi, India / 250 persons killed / Sci Amer, Dec., 1931, p. 418. [SF-V; 164.  (Scientific American, n.s., 145 (December 1931): 418.)]


[Other phe] / 1800 = Jan. 15, 1932. [SF-V; 165.]


[Other phe] / 1800 = Jan. 15, 1932. [SF-V; 166.]


[Other phe] / 1836 / May 19 / See Ap. 12, 1831 / Nov., 1832 / Feb. 9, 1835 / Jan 28, 1836 / Feb. 5, 1842. [SF-V; 167. See: (1836 / May 19 / See Ap. 12, 1831 / Nov., 1832 / Feb. 9, 1835 / Jan 28, 1836 / Feb. 5, 1842.).]


[Other phe] / 1849 / Sept 14-17 / Eruption Merapi, Javanot again tillSee Dec. 4, 1930. [SF-V; 168. See: (1849 Sept 14-17), (1930 Dec. 4). There were additional eruptions of the Merapi volcano in 1861, 1862, 1865, 1872, 1878, 1883, 1885, 1889, 1891, 1893, 1894, 1897, 1902, 1905, 1906, 1908, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1922, and 1924.]


[The following twnety-seven notes were clipped together by Fort. SF-V: 169-195.]


[Other phe] / 1871 (?) / Feb / Met and fishes / See met and seeds / Ap. 28, 1893. [S-V; 169. See: (1871 Feb???), and, (1893 Ap 28).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / Meteors and substance / Oct 25, 29, ab 1841? [SF-V; 170. See: (1871 Feb), and, (1841 Oct 25, 29).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb 4 / Living and meteoric stones / See a Birmingham fall. [SF-V; 171, See: (Birmingham fall).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb 4 / Larvae with meteoric dusts / See Feb, 1892. [SF-V; 172. See: (1892 Feb).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / Frgs and met. stone / Aug 13, 1871. [SF-V; 173. See: (1871 Aug 13).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb 4/ Successions / Met and fishes, Peru / Feb and March, Quakes / D-291. [SF-V; 174. (D-291.)]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / (Peru) / Meticeq / Dec. 29, 1820. [SF-V; 175. See: (1820 Dec 29).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / Meteors and ice / Dec 29. 1820. [SF-V; 176. See: (1820 Dec 29).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / Metite and clbrst / Oct 21, 22, 1841 / and ice. [SF-V; 177. See: (1841 Oc t21, 22).]


[Other phe] / 1871 /Feb / Metite, ice, floods / Oct 21, 1844. [SF-V; 178. See: (1844 Oct 21).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / Substance and metite / March 14, 1813. [SF-V; 179. See: (1813 March 14).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / Rain and metites / See th. stone. [SF-V; 180/ See: (Thunderstones).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / Cinders and ice / Aug 10, 1901. [SF-V; 181. See: (1901 Aug 10).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / Insects and great meteor / Sept 5, 1880 / See June 7, 1879. [SF-V; 182. See: (1880 Sept 5), and, (1879 June 7).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / The Dhurmsalla Series. [SF-V; 183. See: (Dhurmsala series).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / (Peru) / See all q-substances. / May be also q-meteors and substance. [SF-V; 184.]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / Metite and fishes, etc. / Dhurmsalla series / July, 1860. [SF-V; 185. See: (Dhurmsalla series, July, 1860).]


[Other phe] / (+) / 1871 / (Feb) / Volumes of water with meteoric substance / Jan 4, 11, 1880 / like that at Sicily, not in water, March 29, and April. [SF-V; 186. See: (1880 Jan 4, 11), and, (1880 March 29 and April).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / Peru / metites and hail / Oct 20, 1824. [SF-V; 187. SeeL (1824 Oct 20).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / Substance after a fireball / Dec 17, 1824. [SF-V; 188. See: (1824 Dec 17).]


[Othe rphe] / 1871 / Feb / Metite and substance / ? / Ap. 15, 1857. [SF-V; 189. See: (1857 Ap 15).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / Methail / q / deluge / Dec 29, 1820. [SF-V; 190. See: (1820 Dec 29).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / Torrents or rain and meteors / June 23, 1838. [SF-V; 191. See: (1838 June 23).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / Metite and clbrst / Sept 23, 1899 / India. [SF-V; 192. See: (1899 Sept 23).]


[Other phe] . 1871 / Feb / Perhaps birds and d. fog / Oct 16, 1846 / "Current" phe. [SF-V; 193. See: (1846 Oct 16).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / Meteor and great dustcould not have come far together / March 27, 1894. [SF-V; 194. See: (1894 March 27).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Feb / (fish and metite) / Substances and metiteSee May 22, 1808 / March 14, 1813. [SF-V; 195. See: (1808 May 22), and, (1813 March 14).]


[Other phe] / 1871 / Oct 9 / Shock / 9:30 a.m. / Salem, N.J. / Wilmington, Del. / N.Y. Times 10-8-2. [SF-V; 196. (New York Times, October 10, 1871, p. 8 c. 2.) See: (1871 Oct 7).]


[Other phe] / Like Automobile / 1874 / Oct 11 / N.Y. Times, 5-2 / Man named John Plamer driving along on the wwaterford road in the town of Waterford, N.Y. Near Place where a house had burned down not long before, the wagon received a tremendous push, forcing it and the horses up a hill. Horses and wagon and man were then [note cut off] against a fence. [SF-V: 197.1, 197.2. (New York Times, October 11, 1874, p. 5 c. 2.)]


[Other phe] / 1877 / Oct 5 / [LT], 10-b / Myst lights. [SF-V; 198. (London Times, October 5, 1877, p. 10 c. 2.)]


[Other phe] / (Fifth page, reverse side) 1878 / Oct. 5 / (First page, front side) One afternoon early in Oct, 1878, Mr. Davy, a naturalist, employed at the Aquarium, walked through streets of London with an animal that blocked streets with crowds wherever it went. Cabs stopped and busses drew up at pavements. Mr Davy kept on with the animal and more excitement was caused by a party of ex-slaves, then playing in London, in Uncle Tom's Cabin, following, shouting, shreiking, clapping their hands. It was such an animal as no one had ever seen before. It had a tail like a pig's, and a wirey hair; as if with no abdomen, the hind legs were joined to the fore ribs: the head was like a wild boar's, but somewhat dog-like. To inquirers Mr. Davy said that the animal had been given to him by Mr. Lemann, who had seen it with some peasants in the south of France, and had bought it, but had been unable to learn anything about it because he could not speak their patois. Finally Mr. Davy fled to the Underground Railway. Here he was compelled to travel in the brake, because it was feared that there would be a panic among the passengers. Mr. Davy showed the animal at the Aquarium, where it was thought to be a hybrid between a dog and a wild boar. Davy took the animal to his home. Here the landlord ordered him to take it out, and the animal, turning toward the landlord, frightened him so that he shut himself in his parlor. Then Davy took the animal to Frank Buckland. In Land and Water, of which he was editor, issued of Oct 5, 1878., Buckland writes that of all hideous monsters dead and alive that he had ever seen this was the most curious. The creature was about two feet square. "He looks like a gargoyle or one of Fuselli's satanic animals. "What became of the animal is not said. Mr B does not say what he thought of it. In the next issue of L. and W. Thomas Worthington, a naturalist, argues that the idea of the boar-dog hybird was "utterly untenable". He thought it was a tame hyena, of some abnormal kind. How an abnormal hyena got into the possession of French peasants, he does not take up. [SF-V: 199.1 to 199.11. (Land and Water, October 5, 1878.) (Land and Water, October 12, 1878???) Davy, (no first name found, also called Auceps, Latin for a fowler, by Buckland), is mentioned in a few newspapers and in Buckland's book, "Notes and Jottings From Animal Life," as an eminent bird-catcher, (neither Humphrey Davy nor John Davy). No mention of this incident was found in contemporary newspapers, (which did report the Uncle Tom's Cabin play and the manatee at the Royal Aquarium, nor in Buckland's later books.]


[The following three notes were clipped together by Fort. SF-V: 200, 201, & 202.]


[Other phe] / 1880 / summer / Mastodon6 miles northwest of Hoopston, Iroquois Co., Ill. In place between ribs where stomach had been “a crushed mass of herbs and grasses, similar to those which still grow in the vicinity.” / Sc. Am. 44-360. [SF-V; 200. “The Mastodon in Recent Times.” Scientific American, n.s., 44 (June 4, 1881): 360.]


[Other phe] / Mastodon bnes found buried not 2 feet deep, at Little Breton, in 1783. / Canadian Naturalist 1/381. [SF-V; 201. (Canadian Naturalist, 1-381.)]


[Other phe] / Sc Am 86/361 / Skeletonvery large whale / Yuma Desert. [SF-V; 202. “Science Notes.” Scientific American, n.s., 86 (May 24, 1902): 361.]


[Other phe] / 1882 / May 2 / N.Y. Times of / Hair seal shot, Ap. 28, in Lake Onandaga. Attempt to explainup St Lawrence and from Lake Ontario overland to Onandaga. / Imagine the poor flopping of a seal. [SF-V; 203. (New York Times, May 2, 1882.)]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Aug 26 / Sunsets return. See Jan, 1884. / Sept-Oct, 1884 / July 3, 26, 1885. [SF-V; 204. See: (1884 Jan); (1884 Sept-Oct); and, (1885 July 3, 26).]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Aug 26 / Afterglows / Hawaii / Octmiddle, etc.1892. [SF-V; 205. See: (1892 Oct).]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Aug 26 / See the metites that fell in Java / Oct 3, 1883 / March 19, 1884. [SF-V; 206. See: (1883 Oct 3), and, (1884 March 19).]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Aug 26 / Glows reappear at Hawaii. / July 13 etc., 1889 / Nature 40-415. [SF-V; 207. Bishop, Sereno Edwards. “Sunset Glows at Honolulu.” Nature, 40 (August 29, 1889): 415. See: 1889 July 13, etc., (VI; 1842).]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept / Sandwich Islands / La Nat 83-2-412 / light in sky / back several nights / Called Aurora. [SF-V; 208. "Une Aurore Boréale aux Iles Sandwich." La Nature, 1883 pt. 2 (no. 547; November 24): 412. Altho the explanation of an aurora was given in La Nature, the afterglows, (observed since September 5), were attributed to volcanoes in the Hawaiian newspapers. Bishop, Sereno Edwards. "The After Glow." Saturday Press, (Honolulu), September 22, 1883, p. 4 c. 2. "I desire to put on record what I have noticed in relation to the singular lurid after-sunset glow that has been observable several times in our skies for more than two weeks. It is impossible not to surmise a connection between these and the enormous volcanic emissions at the Straits of Sunda." Bishop, Sereno Edwards. "Again the After-Glow." Saturday Press, (Honolulu), October 13, 1883, supplement, p. 1 c. 2. "News of the Week." Pacific Commercial Advertiser, (Honolulu), September 29, 1883, p. 5 c. 3-6. "The unusual phenomena of nature, the glowing sunrising and setting and the peculiar aspects of the skies still continue, That the late volcanic eruptions have had some mysterious effect upon the atmosphere seems certain."]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept / Evidently no blue sun in Calcutta. No mention in the "Englishman", though in the issue of Sept 18, the effects at Madras are told of. [SF-V; 209. (Englishman, September 18, 1883.) "The Season at Bangalore." Times of India, September 26, 1883, p. 7 c. 4-5. "You will read full descriptions of these singular manifestations of nature from 'Isis' and other scientific writers in the Madras Mail. The phenomena in question were witnessed even more clearly and unmistakably in Bangalore than in Madras, as I had an opportunity of judging by personal observations in both places. Just before sunset the sun was observed to be of a deep sea-green colour, and the moon, when it rose, was of the same hue and did not resume its normal colour and brilliance till it had reached its zenith. On the evening of Saturday last [September 15] another curious feature of the phenomenon was observable, which I have not seen noticed in any of the local papers. The sun set at 6 p.m., in I

its hired coat of green, but twilight of a peculiar rich, golden colour, continued till very near 8 o'clock. At the same time the western horizon was bathed in a blaze of red, while the eastern sky looked as if it had been painted with indigo. The moon itself was of a green hue till it was on the decline, when, at about 2 a.m. on Sunday morning, happening to look out of my bedroom window, I observed that the orb was of a bright pick colour."]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept 1 / BirdsU.S. / At Independence, Iowa, during th. storma pelting of houses, at night, heard all over town. Next morning, thousands of unknown birds, some dead, some alive. Somewhat larger than snowbirds, and colored like quail. No such birds ever seen there before. / Madras Athenaeum, Oct 23. [SF-V: 210.1, 210.2. (Madras Ateheaeum, October 23, 1883.) (Not found in U.S. newspapers.)]


[Other phe] / Wrms / 1883 / Sept 1 / Field of, p. 394Cor writes that he had received a letter telling of a fall of large hailstones near Bahia Blanca. In each exmained was a luminous worm. each about an inch long, but not much thicker than coarse thread. "What puzzles us is where they would come from." [SF-V: 211.1, 211.2. (Field, September 1, 1883, p. 394.)]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept, beginning / On island of Cebu (Philippines) sun and moon at rising and setting, colored. / Straits Times, Nov. 2. [SF-V; 212. (Straits Times, November 2, 1883.)]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept. 1 / Dispatch from Detroit, in Quebec Daily Mercury, Sept 11, that Sept 1, in New Boston Lake, near Belmont, fish floated into shore, thousands of bushelsno explanationthought poisonous spring at bottom of lake had broken forth. [SF-V: 213.1, 213.2. "Dead Fish." Quebec Mercury, September 11, 1883, p. 1 c. 2.]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept-Dec / Toronto Globe / Column read. [SF-V; 214.]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept-Dec / Have London (Ont.) Advertiser. [SF-V; 215.]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept / Have Hamilton Spectator/ Quebec Mercury / London Advertiser. [SF-V; 216.]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept. 1, etc. / Sun = that vapors went up virtually to the nearby sunso all places in its latitudes affected. / not in northern lats. [SF-V; 217.]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept 1 or 2 / Cape Coast Castle / Blue sun in the morning and then "white like the moon." / Nature 29-133. [SF-V; 218. "The Remarkable Sunsets." Nature, 29 (December 6, 1883): 130-133, at 133.]


[Other phe] 1883 / Sept early / Many letters in Weekly Ceylon Observer upon large n. eye sunspot early in Sept. [SF-V; 219. (Weekly Ceylon Observer, ca. September, 1883.)]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept 2 and 3 / Capt. Brehant of British ship Achievement reported having seen blue sun and 3 distinct spots on it on 3rd. / Lat 12 S / Long 28 W. / Sun, 1884, Jan. 26-1-5. [SF-V; 220. (New York Sun, January 26, 1883, p. 1 c. 5.)]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept 1 or 2 / Sun whitish like moon, / Cape Coast Castle / L.T., Dec 5. [SF-V; 221. (London Times, December 5, 1883.)]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept 2 / Simultaneous almost at antipodes / blue sunColumbo, Ceylon; and Panama / Toronto Globe, Oct. 26. [SF-V; 222. (Toronto Globe, October 26, 1883.)]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept 1, etc. / Pale sun due to earth's atmosphere, because especially at sunrise and set. [SF-V; 223.]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept 1, etc. / Zone / Peculiarly blue sun appeared east and west, but not north and far s. Also q's and sounds, e and w. [SF-V; 224.]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept 2 / Daylight till noon, and 3 p.m. till sundown, in Venezuela, sun like burnished silver. [SF-V; 225. (Ref.???)]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept. 2 / Extrord. sunsets first seen in Peru. / Sci Amer 49-327. [SF-V; 226. “The Peculiar Sky Appearance in Peru.” Scientific American, n.s., 49 (December 15, 1883): 377. “A correspondent, writing from Tocopillo under date of October 28, says: 'We first observed, on the evening of September 2, that after sunset the sky was overcast with a bright yellow light, which gradually became orange-colored. It lasted for about half an hour after sunset. Several nights later it was again seen, but the light was redder.'” “Green Sunlight.” Scientific American, n.s., 49 (November 24, 1883): 327. A green sun was observed in Ceylon from September 9 to 12, 1883.]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept 1 / 20 new sunspots appear. / Sid Mess 5-239 / Altogether 95 in 7 groups. [SF-V; 227. (Sidereal Messenger, 5-239.)]


[Other phe] /1883 / Sept 4 / Great Hurricane / Martinique. [SF-V; 228. (Ref.???)]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept 1-21 / No phe at B Ayres, ac to B A Standard. [SF-V; 229.]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept 1-2 / night / Tremendous th. storms / Naples and Rome / D. News 3-3-2. [SF-V; 230. (London Daily News, September 3, 1883, p. 3 c. 2.)]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept 2 / Destructive gale in England, Started evening of 1st. [SF-V; 231. (Ref.???)]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept. 4 / morning / Shock, Fiji / Fiji Times, 5th. [SF-V; 232. (Fiji Times, September 5, 1883.)]


[Other phe] 1883 / Sept 5 / Narrow beam in sky. / Nova Scotian Inst Nat. Sci. 6/100 / or Nature 45/7. [SF-V; 233. MacGregor, James Gordon. “Note on Peculiar Aurorae.” Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 6 (1883-1886): 100. “A Rare Phenomenon.” Nature, 45 (November 5, 1891): 7.]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept. 4 / Coast of Yorkshire, flies like those of Sept 2, 1880of the family of Bibionidae. The wind blew from the sea"thousands upon thousands of them. / The Field, Sept 15, 1883, p. 394. [SF-V; 234. (Field, September 15, 1883, p. 394.)]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept 4 / Demerara "Royal Gazette" of / Remarkable aurora-like sunsets "for the last few evenings". / I get quoted in  St Christopher Advertiser, 18th. [SF-V; 235. (Demerara Royal Gazette, September 4, 1883.) (St. Christopher Advertiser, September 18, 1883???)]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept 2 / Hurricane in France. / Violent th storms, Italy. / L.T. 3-3-c, d. / In region of Lake Como deluges fell and swept away two bridges. / 4-3-c. [SF-V; 236. (London Times, September 3, 1883, p. 3 c. 3-4.) (London Times, September 4, 1883, p. 3 c. 3.)]


[Other phe] / 1883 / Sept 2 / 8 p.m. / Sharp shock, Frascati, Alban Hills, 12 miles from Rome. / L.T. 3-3-d / Panic there, 4-3-c. [SF-V; 237. (London Times, September 3, 1883, p. 3 c. 4.) (London Times, September 4, 1883, p. 3 c. 3.)]


[Other phe] / O / 1883 / Dec 29 / Religio-Philosophical Journal, 7-1, copying from Toronto GlobeThat at Port Hope, Ontario, in a rain, 5 speckled trout had fallen from sky on sidewalk. Put in water, they were lively. 3 to 4 inches long. [SF-V; 238. (Religio-Philosophical Journal, December 29, 1883, p. 7 c. 1.) “Port Hope.” Toronto Globe, December 1, 1883, p. 2 c. 5. See: 1883 Nov 30, (B; 583).]


[Other phe] / 1885 / March 7 / R-P. J (?), 4-5 / Ghost stopping horses, of carriages, point of road where a man had been murderedtown of Franklin, Franklin Co., Pa. [SF-V; 239. (Religio-Philosophical Journal, March 7, 1885, p. 4 c. 5.)]


[Other phe] / 1886 / about / Ghost, Knebworth, home of Lord Lytton, Hertfordshire / [A Ghost Vistant] / [The Sun]Jan 29, 1932. [SF-V; 240. (New York Sun, January 29, 1932.)]


[Other phe] / Elec of ghst / 1888 / May 5 / G-Dem of, 12-2 / That 20 miles s. east of Frankfort, Kansas, was a house in which there were electric or ghostly manifestationspersons had been seized upon and thrown out of windows by an unknown force. Others thrown against awall with great force. Theer was an investigation by some persons from frankfort. For several hours nothing, and then they were suddenly scattered "by some unseen terrific force"all felt an electric shock. Saw flashes and balls of fireand heard "A wild, piercing scream". It is said that all manifestations were in one room, and in that room, a woman had been killed or had committed suicide 16 years before. [SF-V: 241.1 to 241.4. (St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 5, 1888, p. 12 c. 2.)]


[Other phe] / 1892 / Jan 8 / Ref. in La Nature, is Aug. 26, 1893. / N.Y. Lib, this is vol. 21. / 2 books of a year to a vol. [SF-V; 242. (La Nature, 1893 pt. 2, Aug 26.)]


[Other phe] / 1892 / Ap. 20 / NY Trib, 1-3 / q. / California. [SF-V; 243. (New York Tribune, April 20, 1892, p. 1 c. 3.)]


[Other phe] / 1892 / May 18 / night / Rain of frogs "all sizes" near Mexico, Mo. / B.Eagle 19-6-3. [SF-V; 244. ”Saw Nothing But Frogs.” Brooklyn Eagle, May 19, 1892, p. 6 c. 3.]


[Other phe] / Lightning Clear Sky / 1892 / [July 24] / July 31 / Daily Picayune, Aug 4-4-4 / J. Hough, of Denver, Col., was driving a pin in the earth with a hatchet. "The sky was perfectly clear." He suddenly fell unconscious. Several hours later, he recovered "and found that he had been struck by lightning". Hair singed. A spot the size of a quarter burned bare hole burned in his shirt and a livid mark from shoulder to shoulder. [SF-V: 245.1, 245.2. (New Orleans Daily Picayune, August 4, 1892, p. 4 c. 4.). "Lightning From a Clear Sky." Pittsburg Dispatch, August 1, 1892, p. 4 c. 7.]


[Other phe] / 1892 / Dec 17 / B. Eagle, 4-4. / Mauna Loa in eruption. [SF-V; 246. "Recent Events." Brooklyn Eagle, December 17, 1892, p. 4 c. 4. The Mauna Loa volcano.]


[Othe rphe] / 1895 / (Jan) / Story of boy and fires (Willie Brough) is abridged in N.Y. Herald, Oct 16-5-5, 1886. / "The people are greatly excited. Leading business men testified to the alleged facts." / At Stockton, Cal. [SF-V: 247.1, 247.2. "An Eye of Fire." New York Herald, October 16, 1886, p. 5 c. 5.

"Electrical Scientific." Electrical Review, 9 (October 30, 1886): 8. "Investigation of the story about Willie Brough, the boy living at Turlock, in the San Joaquin valley, who was supposed by superstitious people to set fire to objects by merely fixing his eyes upon them, exploded that part of it, of course. He is evidently overcharged with electricity to a remarkable extent. The snapping of his fingers causes sparks to fly. Popular excitement has been so great since the story of the sinister power of Master Brough was circulated, that the father has felt impelled to move away, and has gone to reside on the other side of the San Joaquin river, taking refuge with his family in a cottage in the cottonwood timber, a long way from village or railroad. A correspondent found him there. He denied that his son had caused fires, but admitted that he had told him that when lying in bed at night he saw sparks flying about him. Willie is an extremely nervous boy, eleven years old, with a largely developed head. In a melancholy way he told the correspondent that he did not know how the mysterious fires occurred, but said he saw sparks about his own body at night. M.A. Kuhlman, who keeps a school in Mercer county, in which the alarm first began, describes how five fires broke out in one afternoon in different parts of the school-house, being caused by no visible agency. Other scholars were hastily dismissed, but Willic Brough was detained. A few minutes later he fixed his eyes on a hay shed a few yards distant and called the teacher's attention to the fact that smoke issued from the same. Very soon it was in a blaze. The teacher forbade him to come to school any more. He does not believe him guilty of arson, but is inclined to think he is a victim of supernatural agencies. On the previous Sunday eleven mysterious blazes occurred in the house of William's father. One broke out at a corner of the roof, another in some bedding in the middle of the floor and the third charred grain sacks in the barn. Willie looked at a straw stack near by, and flames issued out of the top. The mother of the boy is prostrated with excitement and anxiety."]


[Other phe] / 1896 / Feb 4 / B. Eagle, 1-3 / q. / Minnesota / Sk. Ho. / Onondaga. [SF-V; 248. "Earthquake in Minnesota." Brooklyn Eagle, February 4, 1896, p. 1 c. 3.]


[Other phe] / 1896 / Feb 5 / B Eagle, 1-4 / 18-1-2 / q. / Cuba. [SF-V; 249. "Severe Earthquake in Cuba." Brooklyn Eagle, February 5, 1896, p. 1 c. 4. "Earthquake at Santiago." Brooklyn Eagle, February 18, 1896, p. 1 c. 2.]


[Other phe] / 1899 / (Aug) / Mylodon, or Ground Sloth, parts of which in most of the great museums, first reported in Zoologist, Aug., 1899. Parts of skin brought to England by Dr. F.P. Moreno, who believed it been preserved for ages, though ha;f-gnawed tree stumps near it. But Dr. Ameghino, who got specimens of skin from the natives, said that they told that they had shot it. Thought been size of a bear. [SF-V: 250.1, 250.2. (Zoologist, August 1899.)]


[Other phe] / 1901 / July 3, etc. / Ghostly driver of horses / Geneva, N.Y. / Cur. Lit, 31-333. [SF-V; 251. (Current Literature, 31-333.)]


[Other phe] / 1901 / Aug ? / Ghost, home of Mrs D.M. Francis, 437 Richmond Street, Cincinnati, Ohiodoors that opened in front of her hands. / Current Literature, Sept., 1901, p. 333. [F-V; 252. (Current Literature, September, 1901, p. 333.)]


[Other phe] 1903 / Feb / (Cattke) / [Babboons as Cattle Raiders] / D. Mail, May 18, 1925. [SF-V; 253. Newspaper clipping. (London Daily Mail, May 18, 1925._]


[Other phe] / 1903 / July, early / White spot, Saturn, by Prof E.E Barnard / N.Y. Trib 12(S)-9-3. [SF-V; 254. (New York Tribune, July 12, 1903, (S), p. 9 c. 3.)]


[Other phe] / 1904 / Dec. 31 / Explosion / Blyth / See Blyth News, [SF-V; 255. (Blyth News, ca. 1904.)]


[Other phe] / 1905 / Ap. 24 / Began polt phe which continued till 1908, sometimes long intervals, in her home, at Tackley, Oxen, told of by Ada M. Sharpe, in a booklet, "A Distrubed House and its Relief. / Mostly loud sounds, some like exploding bombs. [SF-V; 256. (Sharpe, Ada M. A Disturbed House and Its Relief.)]


[The following five notes were folded together by Fort. SF-V: 257 to 261.]


[Other phe] / Sim. polts / 1905 / Nov. 12 / Said that at Belmont, Trinidad, there were phe in a housechairs rockingdoors unlockedsounds. [SF-V; 257. (Ref.???)]


[Other phe] / 1905 / Nov 12 . Told in Port of Spain Gazette, Nov 21house, Queen StreetMrs Lorelhei, a widow, and some relatives who had occupied the house several months. Stones bombarded till 18ththen furniture moved. Told of the doctor visiting a sick inmate, seeing objects flying around. [SF-V: 258.1, 258.2. (Port of Spain Gazette, November 21, 1905.)]


[Other phe] / 1905 / Nov 12 / Port of Spain Mirror, Nov 21 / In boarding house kept by Mrs Lorelhei, in Queen street, near St. Vincent street, P. of Spain. House assaulted with stones and went on 2 days. Then inside house, they dropped on people in beds. After that objects in the house thrown about. But it seems that after the publication of this account, the phe stopped. Chairs falling and whirling. Potatoes in a basket flying upward. / Said other cases known in Trinidad and called "Jumbieism". [SF-V: 259.1, 259.2, 259.3. (Port of Spain Mirror, November 21, 1905.)]


[Other phe] / Stones / 1905 / Nov 12 / Nov. 21, Port of Spain (Trinidad) Mirror of, quoteat a boarding house in Queen street, pelted with stonesarticles in house rose and whizzed past persons in roomschairs moved. A doctor who attended a sick person in the house quoted as having seen some of the phe. [SF-V: 260.1, 260.2. (Port of Spain Mirror, Nov 21, 1905.)]


[Other phe] / 1905 / Nov 12 / At Tacarigua, Trinidad, a young East Indian woman, named Seedhawa, was compalined of and accused of insanity, for pulling ears of other women, and for stone throwing, Woman ordered taken in custody for examination. / The Mirror (P. of Spain, Nov 21). [SF-V: 261.1, 261.2. (Port of Spain Mirror, November 21, 1905.)]


[Other phe] / 1908 / Grimsby skull / See March 27, 1923. [SF-V; 262. See: (1923 March 27).]


[Other phe] / 1908 / Skull is like this. / Ophil Ophilhalmosaurus / Figured in Geol Mag., 1915-145. [SF-V; 263. (Geological Magazine, 1915-145.)]


[Other phe] / 1908 / June / 1923 / March 27 / D. Chronicle 28-7-3 / Skull brought to Grimsby from North Sea, taken in net of trawler Savaria. "The skull is like that of some huge bird, and is armed with great beak-like jaws which are almost 3 ft. long." / 5 feet long. Across frontal bone 29 inches. / Eye sockets noted. / "Defied classification by local students of natural history." [SF-V: 264.1, 264.2. (London Daily Chronicle, March 28, 1923, p. 7 c. 3.)]


[The following three notes were clipped together by Fort. SF-V: 265, 266, & 267.]


[Other phe] / 1908 / June 25 / S S / Proboscis / Daily News, June 26, 1908 / That trawlers of the steamship Balmedie had brought to Grimsby, skull of an unknown monster dredged up by them in the North Atlantic, north of Scotland. Size of the skull indicated an animal size of an elephant "in a wonderful state of preservation". Unlike any cetacean skullthe eye sockets each a foot across. There was a protuberance from the "jaws". "This protuberance is leathery to the touch, three feet long, eight inches in circumference, and tapering to a point. [SF-V: 265.1, 265.2, 265.3. ("A Sea Monster." London Daily News, June 26, 1908, p. 7 c. 3.) (“Prehistoric Monster.” Inverness Courier, June 30, 1908, p. 6 c. 5.) (Darren Naish identifies this object as the skull of a minke whale. https://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/03/03/rorquals-part-ii ]


[Other phe] / BO / 1908 / June 25 / Photo of the object reproduced in the Grimsby Telegraph, June 29. The protuberance was the tongue, about equal in length to a jaw-bone's length. Skull was bought by Mr. J. Norton. [SF-V; 266. (Grimsby Telegraph, June 29, 1908, p. 3 c. 3-4.)]


[Other phe] / 1908 / June 25 / [illustration] / The neck socket of a cetacean would be at "X". [SF-V; 267. Illustration.]


[Other phe] / (See other case / road.) / 1908 / Aug 15 / Weekly Budget of, 5-5 / Mrs Walton M. Peckham died from injuries in a motor accident a few weeks before. Brakes failed to work down a hill, and ran into a tree. Year before, car ran into same tree and 3 occupants killed. [SF-V; 268. (Weekly Budget, August 15, 1908, p. 5 c. 5.)]


[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. SF-V: 269 & 270.]


[Other phe] / 1910 / June 10 / Gas / W. Dispatch, 12th / "One of the most remarkable and mysterious cases of gas poisoning that has occurred in London in recent years." In Neale Street, Longacre. A woman awakened at 3 a.m., and smelled gas. She caused an investigation. From 3 houses the police took 6 unconscious persons, In one house between two so affected, no one affected and no gas smelled. Men sent by the gas company searched long but could not learn where the gas came from. [SF-V: 269.1, 269.2. (London Weekly Dispatch, June 12, 1910.)]


[Other phe] / 1910 / June 10 / Holborn Guardian of 17th / NamesCharles Pannell / Rose Pannell / Janie Sutton / Frances Bontellier / Kate Fowler / Mrs. Gillett. [SF-V; 270. (Holborn Guardian, June 17, 1910.)]


[Other phe] / 1911 / Jan. / Poison fog, Belgium, like Dec 5, 1930 / See Dec 5, marked (+). [SF-V; 271. See: 1930 Dec. 5, (XII; 266).]


[Other phe] / 1911 / Jan / Poison fog / See Ciel et Terre, Nov., 1913, article by Bertyn. [SF-V; 272. Bertyn, Félix. “Action Morbide du Brouillard.” Ciel et Terre, 34 (1913): 343-346.]


[Other phe] / 1911 / Sept 9-10 / Greatest rainfall recorded in U.S.at Taylor, Texas / 23.11 inches / N.Y. Times, Aug 17, 1930. [SF-V; 273. (New York Times, August 17, 1930.)]


[Other phe] / [untitled article, citing the Homes News of July 11, 1912, about hairclipping in the Bronx] / [source unidentified]. [SF-V; 274. Newspaper clipping. (Unidentified source, no date.)]


[Other phe] / + / 1917 / Dec 25 and ab 10 days more / Disatrous qs / Guatemala / N.Y. Times, Jan 23, 1932. [SF-V; 275. (New York Times, January 23, 1932.)]


[Other phe] / Like Lake Onand. / 1920 / July 1 / D. Mail of / Cor writes, belief in Gibraltar of some natural tunnel to mainland of Africa because ext disaps and reaps. of the Barbary apres of Gib. All known to the staff of the signal station top of the Rockm many having pet names. "The numbers sometimes change in a most unaccountable waywell known monkeys are absent for months and then suddenly reappear with new, strange adult monkeys of a similar breed. Those who know Gib will agree that there is not a sq. yard on the Rock where they could have hidden. [SF-V: 276.1, 276.2, 276.3. (London Daily Mail, July 1, 1920.)]


[Other phe] / + / 1920 / Nov. 3 / Red rain / Australia / See Dec 31, 1927. [SF-V; 277. See: (1927 Dec 31).]


[Other phe] / Celeste / See May 11. / 1921 / June 22 / D. Mail of, 7-3 / Dispatch from N.Y. / 3 steamers equipped with wireles apparatus had disappeared. Several months before, the 5-masted steamer(?) Carroll A. Deering had been seen, all sails set, but nobody aboard. A few weeks later went ashore on the Diamond Shoals off the New Jersey coast. Was seen in Jan. Near Diamond Shoals a bottle found, purporting by Capt. that he had been taken prisoner by the crew and put on another vessel. This not thought genuine. Neither Capt nor crew of 13 men heard from up to June 22. [SF-V; 278.1, 278.2, 278.3. (London Daily Mail, June 22, 1921, p. 7 c. 3.)]


[Other phe] / 1923 / Feb. 26 / D. Mail, March 2, 23 / Boy of 16, William Nelson Abbott, who on Feb 26, 1923, discovered change in Beta Ceti / of Athens. [SF-V; 279. (London Daily Mail, March 2, 1923.) (London Daily Mail, March 23, 1923.)]


[Other phe] / + / 1923 / Sept 11 / Tidal waveWest coast, Lower California / NY Times 13-1-2. [SF-V; 280. (New York Times, September 13, 1923, p. 1 c. 2.)]


[The following three notes were clipped together by Fort. SF-V: 281, 282, & 283.]


[Other phe] / 1924 / Ap. 5 . [The Daily Mail] / [Ray to Stop Aeroplanes.] [SF-V; 281. Newspaper clipping. (London Daily Mail, April 5, 1924.)]


[Other phe] / Sept, 1923 / [The Daily Mail] / [Ray to Disable 'Planes.] [SF-V; 282. Newspaper clipping. (London Daily Mail, September 1, 1923.)]


[Other phe] / [German Finds New Death-Ray] / [The Sun]June 3, 1931. [SF-V; 283. (New York Sun, June 3, 1931.)]


[Other phe] / + / 1924 / Dec. 30 / Eruption of Acatenango, Guatemala / N.Y. Times, Jan. 23, 1932. [SF-V; 284. (New York Times, January 23, 1932.)]


[Other phe] / + / 1925 / July 30 / qTexas / See Aug 16, 1931. [SF-V; 285. See: (1931 Aug 16).]


[The following four notes were clipped together by Fort. SF-V: 286 to 289.]


[Other phe] / + / 1926 / [Why Professor Shot Himself.] [SF-V; 286. Newspaper clipping. (Unidentified source, ca. 1926.)]


[Other phe] / Sci / Kammerer case / Nature (1923) 111-841, 878. [SF-V; 287. MacBride, Ernest William. "Dr. Kammerer's Experiments." Nature, 111 (June 23, 1923): 841-842. Bateson, William. "Dr. Kammerer's Alytes." Nature, 111 (June 30, 1923): 878.]


[Other phe] / + / Kammerer doubted far back. / Nature, May 22, 1919, p. 225, 344. [SF-V; 288. MacBride, Ernest William. "The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics." Nature, 103 (May 22, 1919): 225. Bateson, William. "Dr. Kammerer's Testimony to the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics." Nature, 103 (July 3, 1919): 344-345.]


[Other phe] / Sci / Kammerer / Nature 118-555, 264, 661, 518 / See index, Kammerer. [SF-V; 289. (Nature, 118: 555, 264, 661, 518.)]


[Other phe] / T.P.'s & Cassell's Weekly, [September 11, 1926] / [A face on the Wall]. [SF-V; 290. Newspaper clipping. (T.P.'s & Cassell's Weekly, September 11, 1926.)]


[Other phe] / 1928Feb 14 / [Mitchell Hedges Loses Libel Suit and 'He-Man' Halo] / N.Y. Ev Post. [SF-V; 291. Newspaper clipping. (New York Evening Post, February 14, 1928.)]


[Other phe] / ["Talking Dog" really Talks, Amazes Experts at Boston Show] / Herald-Tribune, Feb. 21, 1928. [SF-V; 292. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald-Tribune, February 21, 1928.)]


[Other phe] / 1928 / April / Vast dust fall, supposed blown up from dry soil of Southern Russia. [SF-V; 293. (Ref.???)]


[Other phe] / April [27, 1928], N.Y. Herald Tribune / [Quakes Spread To Adrianople and Old Varna]. [SF-V; 294. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald Tribune, April 27, 1928.)]


[Other phe] / [Alaska's Phantom City Arises In Mirage Over Muir Glacier] / H Trib, Aug 51928. [SF-V; 295. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald Tribune, August 5, 1928.)]


[Other phe] / 1928 / Oct 6-10 / Dust said of Australian originpale chocolate color, fell in New Zealand. / NY Times, Dec. 7, 1930, Section X. [SF-V; 296. (New York Times, December 7, 1920, s. X.)]


[Other phe] / 1929 / June 19-20 / Fumes at El Paso, Texas / Seeother collectionclipping, N.Y. Sun, Dec. 6, 1930. [SF-V; 297. (New York Sun, December 6, 1930.)]


[Other phe] / 1929 / early in August / Clouds of deadly gas from Mt. Etna / N.Y. Sun, Dec 6, 1930. [SF-V; 298. (New York Sun, December 6, 1930.)]


[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort. SF-V: 299 & 300.]


[Other phe] / 1929 / Sept 19 / N.Y. American of / Alligator / [Believe It or Not, Alligator Shot In Jersey marsh]. [SF-V; 299. Newspaper clipping. (New York American, September 19, 1929.)]


[Other phe] / 1929Sept 23 / NY Sun . [Alligator Found In New York Creek]. [SF-V; 300. Newspaper clipping. (New York Sun, September 23, 1929.)]


[Other phe] / + / 1929 / November / Eruption of Santa Maria, Guatemala. / 100 deaths. / Eruption before was in Oct., 1902. / N.Y. Times, Jan. 23, 1932. [SF-V; 301. (New York Times, January 23, 1932.)]


[Other phe] / [Ferns That Survive Kilauea's Flow of Lava. / N.Y. Sun, Ap 14, 1930. [SF-V; 302.Newspaper clipping. (New York Sun, April 14, 1930.)]


[Other phe] / + / 1930 / July 3 / Volc eruption of Moyuuta, in Guatemala. / q's before this. / N.Y. Times, Jan. 23, 1932. [SF-V; 303. (New York Times, January 23, 1932.)]


[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort. SF-V: 304 & 305.]


[Other phe] / + / 1930 / Sept. 30 / N.Y. Times, June 16, 1931 / [New Isles May Start International Race]. [SF-V; 304. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, June 16, 1931.)]


[Other phe] / [2 New Islands Hailed As Return of Atlantis] / N.Y. Herald Tribune, June 18, 1931. [SF-V; 305. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald Tribune, June 18, 1931.)]


[Other phe] / [Mr. Ruseell May be Right] / [The New York Times]Nov. 9, 1930. [SF-V; 306. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, November 9, 1930.)]


[Other phe] / [Miracles a Daily Routine Here] / W-Telegram, July 24, 1931. [SF-V; 307. Newspaper clipping. (New York World-Telegram, July 24, 1931.)]


[The following six notes were clipped together by Fort. SF-V: 308 to 313.]


[Other phe] / [Own Brain Trap Trips Author of Irvington Test] / N.Y. H. Trib, Aug 12, 1931. [SF-V; 308. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald Tribune, August 12, 1931.)]


[Other phe] / Law / [Out]in a few months / NY H-Trib., Jan 17, 1931. [SF-V; 309. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald Tribune, January 17, 1931.)]


[Other phe] / Law / World-Telegram, March 25, 1931 / [His Own Invention?] [SF-V; 310. Newspaper clipping. (New York World-Telegram, March 25, 1931.)]


[The following three notes were clipped together with the paper clip by Fort. SF-V: 311, 312, & 313.]


[Other phe] / Jury / Taboo / [A Juror] / [Evening Post], Ap 8, 1931. [SF-V; 311. (New York Evening Post, April 8, 1931.)]


[Oher phe] / Teachers / N.Y. Times, Aug. 12, 1931, [page 20] / [Teacher Test Held 'Obsolete' in Part]. [SF-V; 312. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, August 12, 1931, p. 20.)]


[Other phe] / Jury / H. Trib, Ap. 2, 1931 / ['Mental Limitations' No Bank Jury Excuse]. [SF-V; 313. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald Tribune, April 2, 1931.)]


[Other phe] / 1931 / Aug. 13H. Trib / ['Human Cork' Is Dead, His Secret Unrevealed]. [SF-V; 314. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald Tribune, August 13, 1931.)]


[Other Sciences]:


[Other Sciences] / Anti-Sci / JacksonRussell / [Scientists and Artist Dispute Newton and Kepler Findings] / [The New York Times, August 3, 1930.] [SF-V; 111. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, August 3, 1930.)]


[Other Sciences] / Clouds / [Noctilucent Cloud Mystery Studied in radio's Behalf] / N.Y. Times, Ap. 8, 1928. [SF-V; 112. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, April 8, 1928.)]


[Other Sciences] / Disease / (Taboo) / NY Sun, Jan 17, 1930 / [278 Carry Typhoid in State]. [SF-V; 113. (New York Sun, January 17, 1930.)]


[Other Sciences] / Fakirs / or Prodigies / [John D. Reese, Bonesetterm 76m Is Dead in Ohio] / [New York Herald Tribune, November 30, 1931]. [SF-V; 114. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald Tribune, November 30, 1931.)]


[Other Sciences] / Hydrophobia / [letter by Mathew Woodsm of Philadelphia, Pa., in an article by Gustave Strykerm on hydrophobia] / N.Y. Telegram, Nov 26, 1929. [SF-V; 115. Newspaper clipping. (New York Telegram. November 26, 1929.)]


[Other Sciences] / Hydrophobia / [Parisians Eat More Fish] / NY Times, July 4, 1931. [SF-V; 116. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, July 4, 1931.)]


[Other Sciences] / O / Inscriptions / Oct 25, 1925 / [The "Moses" Inscription.] [SF-V; 117. Newspaper clipping. ("The Moses Inscription," and, "The Queen's Name." London Observer, October 25, 1925, p. 15 c. 2-3.) (Grimme. Hubert. Althebräische Inschriften vom Sinai. 1923.) (Grimme, Hubert. Die Lösung des Sinaischriftproblems: Die Altthamudische Schrift. 1926, includes copies of his transcriptions.) (Smith, J.M. Powis, "A New Disclosure from Sinai." Journal of Religion, 6 (no. 2; March 1926): 195-200.) (Kryvelev, Iosif Aronovich. Kniga o biblii. Moscow: Soksekgiz, 1958, 100.) (Petrovich, Douglas. The World's Oldest Alphabet. Carta, 2016. OKQ Z115.4 .P48 2016.)]


[Other Sciences] / Miracles / 1930 / Ev. World, Sept. [19] / [Boiling Blood Lifts Fears]. [SF-V; 118. Newspaper clipping. (New York Evening World, September 19, 1930.)]


[The following five notes were clipped together by Fort. SF-V: 119 to 123.]


[Other Sciences] / Squids / In Science, N.S., 16/947, Dec 12, 1902, Dr. John M. Clarke writes that a strange looking fish had been caught in Onodaga Lake, and brought to Syracuse. Was identified as a squid. A second specimen was caught. Dr. Clarke argues that because salt springs near the lake, might be salty water near bottom of lake where sea fishes could live, Also that from hotels, clam and oyster shells thrown into lakem abd in some of them might be eggs of squids. / Science NS, 17-31, Prof. Ortmann, of Princeton, writes that one of the specimens had been sent to him, Proved to be a "short-finned squid" of North Atlantic coast, full-grown; about 13 inches long. His suggestion is that, as on coast, squid used for bait, He asks if could be possible somebody had bought squid for bait in Onandaga. / Foolish to me, C.F.live squid. Ac to cor, Sci, 17-114, "On the authority of Prof. Hargitt, of Syracuse University, a sargassum fish (Pterophyyne histrio) said to have been caught in Onandaga Lake, was exhibited in Syracuse, some years ago." [SF-V: 119.1 to 119.6. Clarke, John M. "The Squids from Onondaga Lake, N.Y." Science, n.s., 16 (December 12, 1902): 947-948. Ortmann, Arnold Edward. "Illex Illecebrosus (Lesueur), The Squid from Onandaga Lake, N.Y." Science, n.s., 17 (January 2, 1903): 30-31. Smith, H.M. "Marine Animals in Interior Waters." Science, n.s., 17 (January 16, 1903): 114.]


[Other Sciences] / Obj / Onandaga / Strange fish / Chautauqua Lake / Sci Record 1874-473. [SF-V; 120. "A Singular Fish." Science Record, 1874, 473. See: BO / 1874 / Onandaga, (SF-V; 58).]


[Other Sciences] / (Cor) / Queer Lake / Onandaga Co., N.Y. / Sc Am, old. ser., 8/329. [SF-V; 121. "Singular Lakes." Scientific American, o.s, 8 (July 2, 1853): 329. Geddes, George. "Survey of Onondaga." Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society, 19 (1859): 219-352, at 260-262. "Besides these lakes, there are many ponds, that perhaps deserve notice. In the town of Manlius, on lot fifty-six, are two remarkable bodies of water, called by the various names of 'Crater Lakes,' 'Green Lakes,' and sometimes one of them is called 'Lake Sodom.' They are near each other, in the same valley, and are connected by a small brook, which flows from the southwest, or upper, to the lower pond. The upper one, or Lake Sodom, which is by far the most interesting, is nearly circular, having a diameter of a quarter of a mile, and a depth of water of one hundred and fifty-six feet. The surface being one hundred and fifty feet below the top of the banks, that in a circular form surround it, except on one side, makes the whole excavation over three hundred feet in depth." "Lake Sodom is forty-four feet above Onondaga lake. The lower pond is quite like the upper, except in its form, having a prolongation on its eastern side, running for nearly half a mile between gradually declining hills. It is one hundred and sixty-five feet deep. Both these bodies of water are in the gypseous rocks, and a quarry of this mineral is worked on the banks of one of them. To these rocks the waters owe their peculiar characteristics. Dr. Emmons found in a gallon, one hundred grains of saline matter, a large part of which was sulphate of lime, 'with a sufficient quantity of crenate of lime to impart a bitter taste.' Prof. Silliman says of Lake Sodom: 'The bottom is a grass green slate; the sides white shell marl, and the brim black vegetable mold; the waters perfectly limpid. The whole appears to the eye like a rich porcelain bowl, filled with limpid nectar. But to the taste it is the Harrowgate water.' Dr. Beck says, that 'the water drawn from the bottom of the pond, is strongly charged with sulphuret of hydrogen. It blackened silver powerfully, and gave copious precipitates with solutions of oxalates of ammonia and muriate of barytes, indicating the presence of sulpureted hydrogen and sulphate of lime. Its specific gravity was scarcely above distilled water, and it contained not even a trace of iron. Thus we have here a spacious sulphur bath; a fact which exhibits, in a most striking manner, the extent and power of the agency concerned in the evolution of this gas.'"]


[Other Science] / Squid in Onandaga Lake / Science, N.S., 17/31. [SF-V; 122. Ortmann, Arnold Edward. "Illex Illecebrosus (Lesueur), The Squid from Onandaga Lake, N.Y." Science, n.s., 17 (January 2, 1903): 30-31.]


[Other Sciences] / Onandaga / S Am 43/176. [SF-V; 123. (Scientific American, 43-176; not found here.)]


[Other Sciences] / Teleport / [Breeding Habits of Eels Puzzle] / N.Y. Times, Nov 30, 1930. [SF-V; 124. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, November 30, 1930.)]


[Other Sciences] / TOnsils / [Blueblood of Canines That Ate from Fork Dies after Operation] / N.Y. Ev. World, Feb. 13, 1931. [SF-V; 125. Newspaper clipping. (New York Evening World, February 13, 1931.)]


[Other Sciences] / Sci / transmutation / NY Times, Oct. 18, 1931 / [Alchemist's Dream Is Still Far Away]. [SF-V; 126. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, October 18, 1931.)]


[Other Sciences] / Vampire / Human / B. Eagle, 1892, Nov. 4-1-4 / Portuguese sailor, James Brown, been transferred from the Ohio Penitentiary to the National Asylum, D.C. In the year 1867 he had shipped on a fishing smack from Boston. 2 of the crew missing. Searched for, and Brown was found in the hold, sucking the blood from one of the bodies, The other body was found, It had been treated similarly, Brown was tried, convicted, and sentenced to be hanged, but President Johnson had commuted the sentence to life imprisonment, He had been transferred to Ohio from a Mass. prison, where he had committed 2 murders. / A week later, in the Eagle, appeared a story, said be from London Telegraph's Russian Correspondent, of a woman named Akkerman, living in the Ismail district of Bessarabiawhile under the influence of vodka, in another peasant's home, had killed the baby of her hostess, and had gnawed the body and sucked the blood. [SF-V; 127. "A Human Vampire and a Murderer." Brooklyn Eagle, November 4, 1892, p. 1 c. 4. "Awful Story of Cannibalism." Brooklyn Eagle, November 11, 1892, p. 10 c. 2.]


[Other Sciences] / Weather Control? / N.Y. Herald Tribune, Nov. 27, 1930, [page 8] / [Weather 'Ruler' Showers Woe Upon Burglar]. [SF-V; 128.1. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald Tribune, November 27, 1930.)]


Owls


Own Sci / My relations not the invariable. / But magnetic effects on earth time of sunspotsfinally clear relationstill been mag disturbance at times of no sunspots. See volc times, May, 1902. (See IndexMagnetic.) [AF-III; 187. (Ref.???)]


O Sis / A does great favor for Bbut reactions of it great disfavor. B pays backreactions of that equally bad. [AF-III; 188.]


O Sis / X / Its reaction / They compromise. / Science vs Bible to Organic Science. [AF-III; 189.]


O Sis / A thing (X) that cannot realize itself. It merges away into Y. Y that cannot realize. It into Z. / (Synthesis). [AF-III; 190.]

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