* Astronomy

At a meeting of the Imperial Academy of Vienna on October 4th 1860, Director Haidinger gave an account of this meteorite. The fall took place without detonation, and only a slight noise was heard similar to the rattling of carriages, on June 7th, 1855, 7¾ P.M., near the town of St. Denis-Westrem, 2½ miles from Ghent. It fell thirty paces from a man and woman, penetrated the ground about 2 feet, and was immediately dug up ; it was hot, of a bluish-black colour and smelled sulphurous.
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