Notice of the Fall of an Aërolite near Middlesborough, Yorkshire, on the 14th of March, 1881; and brief Account of some of the Particulars of the Occurrence.
Book Description: Newcastle, “Daily Chronicle” Office, 1881. Small8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from the Newcastle “Daily Chronicle”, March 30th, 1881. Light soiling to extremities, otherwise fine and clean. 7 pp. Scarce offprint issue inscribed by the author to Professor E. F. Stone of this short memoire on the observations of the fall of an aërolite near Middlesborough in Yorkshire.Alexander Stewart Herschel (1836 – 1907), son of John Herschel and the grandson of William Herschel, did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy. Herschel was the first to observe a meteor spectrum.
Binding: Soft cover