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One of those that descended at Jonsae, in the Department of the 

 Lower Charente, the 13th of June, 1819. 



Fragment of the largest of those that fell at Juve"nas, Dep. of the 

 Ardeche, 15th of June, 1821. 



A portion of the meteorite which descended at Nanjenoy, in Mary- 

 land, February 10th, 1825, formerly in the possession of the Author, to 

 whom it was presented by Professor Silliman. 



Fragment of one of the meteorites which fell, May 9th, 1827, at 

 Drake's Creek, Nashville, Tennessee. 



Another of that of Richmond, Chesterfield County, Virginia, observed 

 to fall June 4th, 1828. 



Another which was seen to fall at Aldsworth, 12 miles E. of Ciren- 

 cester, August 4th, 1835. 



A meteorite, weighing about four pounds, which fell at the village of 

 Akburpoor, in the district of Saharanpore, April 18th, 1838; presented 

 by Major Cautley, Bengal Artillery. 



. A fragment detached from one of the three stones which, on June 

 6th, 1838, simultaneously fell at three villages, about a mile distant 

 from each other, in the valley of Berar (situated Lat. 21 N., Long. 77 

 20' E.), in the East Indies. 



Two of those that were seen to fall, October 13th of the same year, at 

 Old Bokkeveld, at the Cape of Good Hope ; the larger presented by Sir 

 John Herschel, Bart., the smaller by E. Charlesworth, Esq. 



A fragment of that which fell at Little Piney, Missouri, February 

 13th, 1839. 



Two large portions of the stone that fell, June 12th, 1841, at Triguerre, 

 Canton of Chateau-Eenard, Department of the Loire. 



A large fragment of the remarkable meteoric stone that fell at Bishop- 

 ville, S. Carolina, in March, 1846, and another of that which descended 

 February 25th, 1847, near Marion, in Linn County, State of Iowa, North 

 America, and of which an account has been published in a late number 

 of Silliman's American Journal. Mr. Konig's Synopsis. 



3. [59.] Contains the chlorides : viz. chloride of sodium, ammonium, 

 lead, copper, silver, mercury, &c. 



4. [2.] Native silver, of which there are some very rich and beautiful 

 forms; native mercury, platinum, &c. ; palladium and osmiridium in a 

 wrought state; irite from the Ural Mountains. 



5. [58.] Fluorides; fluor spar; chlorophane ; fluoride of calcium, 

 yttrium, and cerium. 



[58 A.] Silicates containing fluorine. Saxon, Brazilian, and Siberian 

 topazes, some imbedded in rock crystal ; pyrophysalite from Fahlun in 

 Sweden ; choridrodite from New Jersey. 



6. [3.] Native gold, pure and alloyed ; electrum from Schlangenberg 

 in Siberia. 



" In this case (continued to case 12 of the minor notation) begin the 

 electro-negative metallic substances called metalloids, and their non- 

 oxidized combinations/' Mr. Konigs Synopsis. 



Tellurium and tellurets ; native antimony ; antimonial silver. 



7. [57.] Various phosphates. Phosphate of iron, manganese, copper, 



