130 MUSEUM METEORITES—HONEYMAN. 
some respects it may be subject to modification. From Mr. 
Kuntz’s memoirs we observe changes in nomenclature, e.g. In 
that on the Glorietta mountain meteorites, we have the meteor- 
ites of Division 1 and Ist sub-division characterized as the Holosi- 
derites of Daubreé and the “Caillites of Meunier.” Our first 
museum specimen is of this kind. The Atacama meteorites are 
also characterized as the “ Syssidieres of Daubreé.” Our second 
museum specimen is of this class. ; 
Our latest information regarding his operations is derived from 
Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, July 1871. 
M. de Chancourtois communicates a letter which he had 
addressed to M. Elie de Beaumont concerning the bombardment. 
In this he says: “The second obus fell on the night of the 12th, 
at 9 p.m. It penetrated into the room of M. Daubree, Professor 
of Mineralogy, traversing the thick stone wall at the side of the 
window and settling itself, without bursting, on end, like a bottle, 
right under the table of the Professor, about 2) metres from 
the opening of the wall. We have long known that the aérolites 
are chiefly formed of iron, other metals have been recog- 
nized, also sulphur and carbon, &c. Their composition has there- 
fore much analogy with that of the obus (small bomb shell). Is 
it not then striking to see one of these artificial missiles (bolides) 
coming right to the seat of the eminent mineralogist, who in 
these times has made a specialty of the study of natural bolides.” 
