OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



71 



Date of Fall or Find. 



Fell 1852. 



Jan. 23, 4£ P. M. 



No. 



Weight 



in 

 Grams. 



7.5 



7 



198 



Fell 1852. 



Sept. 4, 4J p.m. 



Fell 1852. 

 Oct. 13, 3 p. m. 



Fell 1852. 

 Dec. 2. 



199 



200 



201 





64 



35.5 



51 



22.5 



12 

 3.5 



9 



Description. 



are others which are markedly curved. 

 These curved plates must have origi- 

 nally formed through the liquid mass 

 as true planes, like their neighhors, 

 and have been bent in the subsequent 

 solidifying of the remaining material. 

 For, if they had been distorted by an 

 exterior force, the regularity of the oc- 

 tahedron would have been at the same 

 time destroyed. f 



* Thin slab, with crust on edges. 

 [Smith Collection.] 



* Same as the previous specimen. 

 [Smith Collection.] 



* Same as the previous specimen. 

 [Smith Collection.'] 



Yatoor, Nellore, Madras, India. 



Stone. Gray, with three polished 

 faces showing considerable iron. Dull, 

 black crust, and also crust partially 

 formed. [Smith Collection.] 



* Four polished faces and crust. 

 [Smith Collection.] 



* Two small fragments, weighing 

 half a gram each. [Smith Collection.] 



Fekete, Mezo-Madar as, Transylvania. 



Stone. Dark rock, with light-col- 

 ored grains surrounded by iron. One 

 face polished. Dull, black crust on 

 two sides. [Smith Collection. From 

 C. U. Shepard.] 



Polished slab. [By exchange with 

 C. U. Shepard.] 



Borkut, Marmaros, Hungary. 



Bustee, near Goruckpur, India. 



Stone. White, with black and white 

 crust. Perfect cleavage with pearly 

 lustre, looking like partially decom- 

 posed felspar. [Smith Collection.] 



Polished block, showing round, pink 

 grains. [Smith Collection.] 

 * Like previous specimen. 



t Oliver W. Huntington 

 loc. cit. 



1 On the Crystalline Structure of Iron Meteorites,' 



