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I DREW attention to hailstones possessing the above form in Science Gossip of December 1884. These pellets, which fell in my garden at Polmont, Stirlingshire, on the morning of May 6, 1884, were about one-fourth of an inch in length, and nearlythree-sixteenths of an inch across. I did not see any horizontal stratification as observed by your correspondent Mr. Middlemiss, but found that each transverse section, when examined by a good lens, exhibited a fairly well-marked internal radiated fibrous structure, somewhat similar to that shown in sections of the mineral wavellite. Below are two (transverse and longitudinal) diagrammatic sections of the Polmont hailstones.
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JOHNSTONE, A. Top-Shaped Hailstones. Nature 35, 536 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035536b0
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