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In another: “On Chatooga County, Georgia, Meteorite,” he 
observes: “ This, too, is of the ‘Caillite group’ of Meunier. 
Part of it was worked into a horse shoe, nails and other forms, 
by the local blacksmith.” 
Yet another: “On Taney County Meteorite, Mo:” “This is 
one of the ‘Syssidieres’ of Daubreé. Two large crysials of 
olivine are present.” 
Before proceeding farther, I would observe that the announce- 
ment of Professor Macgregor’s lecture, delivered before our 
Institute at the March meeting, “On Lockyer’s Spectroscopic 
investigation of Meteorites,” directed special attention to “ Our 
Museum Meteorites.” I had intended to show them as illustra- 
tions, but was prevented by indisposition. Subsequently, Mr. 
Kuntz’s Memoirs, in their allusion to the Atacama Meteorites, 
led me to examine my specimens with new interest. Their 
frequent allusion to Daubreé reminded me of the Bulletin de la 
Société Geologique de France and Daubreé’s ‘ Communications.’ 
Referring to this Journal I found, in that of 1866, page 391, one 
of which this is the title (translated), “Synthetic experiments 
relative to Meteorites. High-probabilities (rapprochements), to 
which these experiments lead, as well for the formation of these 
planetary bodies as for that of the terrestrial globe : By Daubreé.” 
As far as I can learn from the report of Prof. Macgregor’s lecture, 
Daubreé’s investigations seem to be very much akin to those of 
Mr. Lockyer. I consider, therefore, that I am doing some service 
in submitting to the Institute a translation of the salient points 
of Daubreé’s paper, with an occasional illustration from our local 
investigations. 
Daubreé observes: “Already, for a long time, we could not 
doubt that among the matters that fall from the atmosphere on 
the surface of our globe, they (the Meteorites) are in origin in- 
contestably foreign to the planet which we inhabit. Their fall 
is recognized by the considerable production of light and of noise 
which accompanies it, by the trajectory almost horizontal which 
they describe, and by the excessive speed with which they are 
animated,—a velocity which has not its analogue on earth, and 
which we can only compare with that of the planets gravitating. 
