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but were readily attacked by hot nitric acid, though still leaving 
undissolved a few particles of another metallic species, suppose 
to be the Partschite, and which were finally taken up by diges- 
tion in warm aqua regia. The thin, crystalline scales, undoubt- 
edly consist of the schreibersite (of Patera). 
From the hydrochloric solution a precipitate was obtained (by 
means of a stream of sulphuretted hydrogen), which, after wash- 
ing and reduction before the blowpipe, yielded metallic copper. 
A solution of the perchlorid was precipitated by ammonia, and 
the peroxyd of iron thus obtained was ignited with nitrate of 
potassa; when its solution gave decisive evidence of the presence 
of chromic acid. : 
The proportion of nickel obtained from the iron (without in- 
cluding the schreibersite and partschite) was 12-10 to 13-05 p. c. 
_-—thus placing the present meteorite, as regards the high propor- 
tion of nickel, in the rank of the following rather small number 
of meteoric irons, viz., that of Caille, which has 17-37, of Clai- 
borne, Alabama, which has 12°66, of Greene county, Tennessee 
14-7, of Krasnojarsk 10-7, of Bitburg 11-9, and of Cape Colony, 
Aftica 12-27. 
I have abstained from a complete analysis of the present iron, 
as Prof. J. Lawrence Smith is, as I understand, about to pub- 
lish full results of this nature. 
2. Haywood county, North Carolina. 
This specimen, which weighed scarcely {th of an ounce, was 
Sent to me by Hon. T. L. Clingman, accompanied by the follow- 
ing remark: “It was given me by a pérson in Haywood county, 
Whose father had obtained it in that region, but without his being 
able to designate the locality. It ‘is evidently meteoric iron, but 
1s perhaps from some mass already known.” 
_ The fragment is highly crystalline, and somewhat tetrahedral 
in form. One side was polished and etched. It displayed a 
marked character; and one which has no analogue among our 
Meteoric irons. It is irregularly veined by a black ore, which was 
hot acted upon by the acids; and which, when separated and 
submitted to examination, presented all the properties of mag- 
netite. The general ground of the etched pattern is almost iden- 
tical in character with that of the Hauptmannsdorf (Braunau) 
Iron, it being characterized by this, that instead of brilliant pro- 
Jécting lines, it has fine, depressed lines, or grooves, which how- 
ever are bright and glimmering in a strong light, and meet each 
other, mostly at right angles, parting off the ground into squares 
and rectangles, which are also to some extent, diagonally streaked, 
always in a much fainter manner. 
Specific gravity—=7-419. It dissolves in hydrochloric acid 
Without the odor of sulphuretted hydrogen. ‘The solution, when 
