- 
_ 2. Charwallas, 30 miles from Hissar, India, June 12th, 1834. 
¢. 
of Prof. Jameson, to whom it had been presented by a relative 
36 4) C. U. Shepard on Meteorites. 
Art. III].—On Meteorites ; by Cuarntes Uruam SHeparp. 
Read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at New 
Haven, August, 1850. 
1. Tuttehpore, Hindostan, Nov. 30, 1822. 
Tis stone, so far as I am informed, has not been described. 
It is barely mentioned by Prof. Partsch, in the appendix, p. 142, 
of his Catalogue of Meteorites in the Imperial collection at 
Vienna, (1843) as not yet brought into Europe. While in Edin- 
burgh last year, I was informed by Alexander Rose, Esq., that a 
ne specimen of this locality existed in the cabinet of Thomas 
McPherson Grant, Esq., by whom I was very obligingly pre- 
sented with a fragment, and the means of making the present 
communication. 
The fall took place inthe evening at Tuttehpore, which is 
situated seventy-two miles from Allahabad on the Cawnpore road, 
in lat. 25° 57’ N., and long. 80° 50’ E.. The meteor from which _ 
the stone was ejected, was of large size, surpassing the full moon 
in apparent magnitude as well as splendor. It passed from south- — 
east to northwest. A number of stones fell, the largest of which 
weighed 22 lbs., but that in the possession of Mr. Grant was the 
only one in an entire state, which was found. It was brought — 
from India by Dr. Tytler, by whom it was presented to its pres- _ 
ent owner. 
he stone is oval, slightly compressed, indented, and possesses 
a brownish black crust. Its weight is about two pounds. It is 
fine grained, trachytic and resembles most closely the stones of 
a. (March 12, 1811), and of Castine (May 20, 1848.) Sp. 
» =3°352. 
* This is another stone of which the only notice I have met - 
‘with is found in the Appendix of the above mentioned work, (p. 
143),—Prof. Partsch remarking that no portion of the mass had 
made its way into Europe. The entire stone is in the possession 
resident in India at the time of its fall. Its exact weight Iam 
not able to give; but I have the impression that it cannot fall. 
short of 7 or 8 lbs. I owe a fine slice of several ounces weight — 
to the kindness of Prof. Jameson, from an examination of which, 
{am able to give the following description. 
eS ae 
ote WS Lamon 
