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Mr. Kunz exhibited a green jade wedge from New Zealand, 

 evidently used for splitting wood, weighing 7 lbs. and measur- 

 ing 31 cm. by 9 cm. by 5 cm. in thickness. It had evidently 

 seen considerable wear, and was made from a fragment taken 

 from the exterior of a boulder, as one corner of the chisel edge 

 is broken off on account of its impaired toughness, and the stone 

 here is yellowish-brown, a color to which jade usually weathers 

 in New Zealand. It shows considerable polish on both sides 

 from usage. The sides only were rudely shaped. 



Mr. Kuxz also exhibited : 



Two jade celts from the guano islands ; 



Four " " " New Zealand ; 



A rude pebble hollowed-out for a snuff-bottle, from China ; 



A nephrite from Jordansmiihl, Silesia ; 



A series of carved jades from China ; 



A polished jade from India ; 



A series of serpentine chloritic rocks, green basalts, and a se- 

 ries of imitations of jades and jadeite, from Burmah ; casts of 

 the most famous aboriginal jade objects in the European muse- 

 ums, as well as a series of photographs and engravings fully 

 illustrating the subject. 



The topic was discussed by Dr. Philip Valentini and the 

 President. 



(b) description of the meteorite which fell near cabin 



creek, JOHNSON CO., ARKANSAS, MARCH 27tH, 1886. 



The meteorite which I exhibit this evening fell about six 

 miles east of Cabin Creek, Johnson Co., Arkansas, in longitude 

 93° 17' W. of Greenwich, latitude 35° 24' North, within seventy- 

 five yards of the house of Christopher C. Shandy. Mrs. Shandy 

 states that about three o'clock in the afternoon of the 27th of 

 March, 1886, while in her house, she heard a very loud report, 

 which caused the dishes in the closet to rattle and which she 

 described as louder than any thunder she had ever heard. At 

 first she thought it was caused by a bomb shell, and ran out of 

 the house in time to see the limbs fall from the tops of a tall 

 pine tree, which, she says, stands about 75 yards from her dwell- 



