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heai-d afar off, there fell in the town of Ensisheim a stone weighing 260 pounds. 

 It was seen by a child to strike the ground in a field near the canton called 

 Gisgaud, where it made a hole more than five feet deep. It was taken to the 

 church as being a miraculous object. The noise was heard so distinctly at 

 Lucerne, Villing, and many other places that in each of them it was thought 

 that some houses had fallen. King Maximilian, who was then at Ensisheim, 

 had the stone carried to the castle. After breaking ofE two pieces, one for the 

 Duke Sigisniuud of Austria and the other for himself, he forbade further 

 damage, and ordered the stone to be suspended in the parish church. 



The stone is stated to have remained in the church until the French 

 Revohition. Since then it has been frequently broken, and accord- 

 ing to F. Crook, writing in 1868, but 40 or 50 kilograms remained. 

 The fragments have been widely distributed and only a little over 70 

 kilograms are accounted for by Wiilfing. 



Accordmg to Crook's determinations, the stone consists of : 



Per cent. 



Iron mouosulphide 5. 642 



Metal 9- 243 



Chromite • 600 



Silicates 84. 079 



99. 564 



The mass or bulk composition as recalculated by Farrington from 



this analysis is : 



Per cent. 



Silica (SiOj) 36.65 



Alumina (AI2O3) 2.31 



Ferrous oxide (PeO) 34.19 



Magnesia (MgO) ■- 13.13 



Lime (CaO) 1.78 



Soda (Na=0) -38 



Potash (K2O) -22 



Iron (Fe) 8.00 



Nickel (Ni) 1-23 



Sulphur (S) 2.05 



Phosphorus (P) 1-01 



Chromic oxide (CrzOs) .41 



Manganous oxide (MnO) .21 



101. 57 



Reference. — F. Crook, On the chemical constitution of the Ensis- 

 heim, Mauerkirchen, Shergotty, and Muddoor meteoric stones, In- 

 augural Dissertation, Gottingen, 1868, p. 21. 



ERGHEO, SOMALILAND, AFRICA. No. 320. 



Stone, Ckb. Fragment weighing 416 grams. Fell July, 1889. 

 Total weight of fall, 20.375 kilograms. A compact, dark gray stone 

 composed principally of olivine and a rhombic pyroxene with minor 



