Letter, regarding a shower of aerolites from H W Addington to the Secretary of the Royal Society Addington shares an extract of a letter from Viscount Palmerston, dated 25 January 1850, sharing observations on the 'astronomic phenomenon' of a shower of aerolites which fell in Tripoli [Libya]. Subject: Astronomy / Meteorology Received 28 February 1850. Read 16 May 1850. Written by Addington at the Foreign Office [London]. This letter was published in full in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as '[Letter from Mr. Addington to the Secretary of the Royal Society]'. 20 March 1850