The Barisal Guns and Similar Sounds

Abstract

ALLOW me to mention, for the information of those of your readers who take an interest in this subject—a considerable number, to judge from the correspondence that has lately appeared in these columns—that a very complete account of the phenomenon is now being published in Ciel et Terre, a review devoted to astronomy, meteorology, and terrestrial physics, published twice monthly at Brussels, from the pen of M. Ernest Van den Broeck, curator of the Royal Museum of Natural History of Belgium, who has devoted much time and labour to a study of the subject. The first article, containing a complete historical review of the subject, appeared on December 1; the second, on the 16th, dealt with the accounts of the phenomenon received by M. Van den Broeck from various observers in Belgium; and future articles will be devoted to a study of the facts as reported from Bengal, to the causes of the phenomenon, and to the methods employed in determining its orgin.