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Amer. Met. Jour.,_ 4-589:
“They are of an amusing character, thus clearly showing that they were of a terrestrial and not a celestial character.”
I’m sure—not positively, of course—that we’ve tried to be as easy-going and lenient with Mr. Symons as his obviously scientific performance would permit. Of course it may be that sub-consciously we were prejudiced against him, instinctively classing him with St. Augustine, Darwin, St. Jerome, and Lyell. As to the “thunderstones,” I think that he investigated them mostly “for the credit of Englishmen,” or in the spirit of the Royal Krakatoa Committee, or about as the commission from the French Academy investigated meteorites. According to a writer in Knowledge, 5-418, the Krakatoa Committee attempted not in the least to prove what had caused
