V. On the detonating bolide of November 20th, 1887

Shortly after November 20th it was generally reported that an earthquake shock had been felt in the South Midland counties of England, and the author began to collect and examine the facts. It appeared that the records from Oxfordshire, and the western stations generally, indicated that much louder sounds were heard there than at the eastern stations,e. g ., Essex and Cambridge. The author thought that, although the phenomenon had been almost universally ascribed to an earthquake, it was more probably due to an explosive bolide, and on receiving from one of the local scientific societies a request for assistance in tracing the shock, the author suggested the alternative explanation.