MUSEUM METEORITES—HONEYMAN. P21 
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meteorite. It is thus described in “ Geology of Canada 1863. 
“Tt was found in 1854 upon the surface of a field and weighed 
370 lbs. Its shape is rudely rectangular and flattened on one 
side. The surface is irregularly pitted, as is generally the case 
with meteoric masses, and coated with a film of oxide of iron. 
This iron is malleable and highly crystalline in texture, and when 
etched by an acid exhibits beautifully the peculiar markings 
which are known as the Widmanstettian figures. Its analysis 
shows it to be an alloy of iron with 6.35 per cent of nickel. 
Small portions of the phosphuret of nickel and iron are dissem- 
inated through the iron and in making a section of it rounded 
masses of magnetic iron pyrites are met with.” 
In the United States Government building were the Smith- 
sonian collections. Here was a fine display of meteorites. A 
ring-shaped one was the most remarkable, and not readily to be 
forgotten. This is called the Tucson meteorite. The greatest 
diameter is 49 inches. Its weight is 14 ewt. 
Our second Museum specimen differs from all these, as far as 
Ican remember. It is from Atacama, Bolivia, South America. 
The late H. B. Bland, Esq., Hill-fields, Berks, kindly presented it. 
It is a fine specimen ; its size is 3x 2} x 1} inches; its weight 1 
lb. 580 grs. It belongs to the 2nd sub-division of Daubree, Ist 
division of which the Pallas meteorite is the type. 
Mr. Kuntz, of New York, has kindly given me a series of 
beautifully illustrated and instructive memoirs on meteorites. 
In one, “ On two new meteorites from Carroll County, Ken- 
tucky, and Catorze, Mexico,” we read: “The mass is largely 
made up of fine yellow transparent olivine, resembling closely 
that of the famous Pallas iron. This meteorite belongs to the 
Siderolites or Syssidieres of Daubree.” 
This is compared with the meteorites of Atacama, such as our 
Museum specimen. 
“Their specific gravity is 4.33. 
“Taking the specific gravity of iron as 7.6, and that of olivine 
as 3.3, these meteorities consist of about three parts of olivine 
and one part of iron.” 
