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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Immense
number
of
black
insects
in
a
snowstorm,
in
1827,
at
Pakroff,
Russia.
(Scientific
American,
30-193.)
Fall,
with
snow,
at
Orenburg,
Russia,
Dec.
14,
1830,
of
a
multitude
of
small,
black
insects,
said
to
have
been
gnats,
but
also
said
to
have
had
flea-like
motions.
(Amer.
Jour.
Sci.,
1-22-375.)
Large
number
of
worms
found
in
a
snowstorm,
upon
the
surface
of
snow
about
four
inches
thick,
near
Sangerfield,
N.Y.,
Nov.
18,
1850
(Scientific
American,
6-96).
The
writer
thinks
that
the
worms
had
been
brought
to
the
surface
of
the
ground
by
rain,
which
had
fallen
previously.
Scientific
American,
Feb.
21,
1891:
"A
puzzling
phenomenon
has
been
noted
frequently
in
some
parts
of
the
Valley
Bend
District,
Randolph
County,
Va.,
this
winter.
The
crust
of
the
snow
has
been
covered
two
or
three
times
with
worms
resembling
the
ordinary
cut
worms.
Where
they
come
from,
unless
they
fall
with
the
snow
is
inexplicable."
In
the
Scientific
American,
March
7,
1891,
the
Editor
says
that
similar
worms
had
been
seen
upon
the
snow
near
Utica,
N.Y.,
and
in
Oneida
and
Herkimer
Counties;
that
some
of
the
worms
had
been
sent
to
the
Department
of
Agriculture
at
Washington.
Again
two
species,
or
polymorphism.
According
to
Prof.
Riley,
it
was
not
polymorphism,
"but
two
distinct
species"--which,
because
of
our
data,
we
doubt.
One
kind
was
larger
than
the
other:
color-differences
not
distinctly
stated.
One
is
called
the
larvae
of
the
common
soldier
beetle
and
the
other
"seems
to
be
a
variety
of
the
bronze
cut
worm."
No
attempt
to
explain
the
occurrence
in
snow.
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