98 Meteoric Stones, 



not equally bleiidedj but separate into imperfectly formed crys- 

 talline series. If the iron is dissolved in an acid solution of sul- 

 phate of iron, the pure iron is set free almost by itself and its lam- 

 inae fall down in flakes. 



The elementary bodies hitherto found in the meteoric stones 

 make up just a third of those we are acquainted with; namelyj 

 oxygen^ hydrogeU; sulphur, phosphorus, carbon, silicon, chrome, 

 potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, aluminium, iron, man- 

 ganese, nickel; cobalt, tin and copper. 



The following analyses of the meteoric iron may be cited ; 



some conducted at the same time by Wherle are added. 



Iron of Pallas. Iron of Ellenbogen. 



Berzelius. . Wherle* 



Iron, - . . . 88.042 88.231 89.90 



Nickel, - - 10.732 . 8.517 8.44 



Cobalt, - . - 0.455 0.762 0.61 



Magnesium, - 0.050 0.279 



Manganese, - - 0.132^ 98.95 



Tin and copper, 0.066 I - . ' 



Carbon, - - - 0.043 f ^ ^^^^^■ 



Sulphur,- - - a trace. J 



Metallic phosphurets 0.480 2.211 



The metallic phosphurets were found to contain : 



Of tlie Pallas Iron. Of the Ellenbogen. 



Iron, - - -■ - 48.67 68.11 



Nickel, - - - 18.33 

 Magnesium, - - 9.66 



17/72 



Phosphorus, - - 18.47 14.17 



95.13 100.00 



This last result cannot possess entire precision, for the whole 

 quantity of the metal, which I was able to take for analysis, 

 was of the former only 3, and of the latter 2.8 centigrammes- 

 Wherle's analysis will be seen to agree more exactly with mine, 

 when I add that he had in the iron the alloy of phosphorus and 

 manganese, and also of magnesia, which fell as the ammonio- 

 phosphate of magnesia with the oxide of iron. 



Wherle has cited (in the forementioned Journal) still other 

 analyses of meteoric iron which I here communicate. 



Baumgartners Zeitschrifl III; 222. 



