PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



Vol. 4, PP. 225-231. JUNE, 1906. 



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THREE NEW CHILIAN METEORITES. 



By Henry A. Ward. 



Read by Title, January 22, 1906. 



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During a visit in the spring of 1905 to places along the coast 

 of Chili, from the southern border of Peru southward to 

 Valparaiso, with inland excursions, the writer had the pleasure of 

 examining a number of interesting meteorites. Three of these 

 being new to science, he takes the present occasion to put them 

 upon record with a preliminary description. We first notice the 

 siderite 



* ILIMAES. 



This most interesting pallasite is in the mineral collection of 

 the Lyceo, at the small city of Copiapo, Chili. We first saw it 

 there in 1889; a huge, dirty mass on the floor under a table. My 

 efforts to obtain a specimen piece by exchange, were met by the 

 remark that it would require a year of correspondence with the 

 authorities at Santiago. In late years there has been a change in 

 the administration of the Lyceum. It now possesses, as an 

 important adjunct, a School of Mines (Escuela de Minas). of 

 which the able director is Senor Casimiro Domeyko, son of the 

 well-known Ignacio Domeyko, geologist and naturalist, cele- 

 brated in the scientific annals of Chili during the middle half of 

 the last century. The meteorite is now mounted on a stand, and 

 adorns a central part of the fine Museum. Its label records that 

 it came from Imalaes (sic) 12 leagues southwest from Taltal, 

 Department of Taltal, Province of Atacama. Its weight is given 

 as 95 kilograms. It measured about 16x10x8 inches, and 

 appeared to be an entire boloid, with the exception of a few cor- 



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