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and felspar can rarely be detected in the high proportions in which they are asserted 
by the chemist to be present in the chondritic variety of meteorite, though con- 
stituting the mass of other kinds. In the former kind, on the other hand, the 
crystals seem, in the majority of cases, to exhibit the planes of polarization in 
directions which belong to minerals crystallizing in the prismatic system. 
The following meteorites, many of which had been recently acquired by the 
British Museum, were next described in detail. 
Chondritie Aérolites. 
J. From Akbarpir, Shahjehanpur, India, lat. 27° 48’, long. 79°43’. An entire 
stone, for a long while in the British Museum, which fell at this place, April 18, 
1838. It weighs 33 lbs. Its sp. gr.=3-73. It presents a beautifully marbled 
surface when polished, richly veined with a dark mineral (chromite, probably). 
2. The stones, some incrusted and some only partially so, the fall of which has 
been above alluded to, and which fell on the banks of the Gunduk, near Butsura, 
on May 12, 1861, lat. 27° 7’, long. 84° 9', at four places. Sp. gr.=3-60. 
3. Nellore, in Madras. A stone weighing 30 lbs., which fell at Yatoor, near this 
place, on January 23, 1852. Its sp. gr.=3-63. 
4, Mhow, Ghazeepur, lat. 25° 54’, long. 83° 57'.. A stone that fell on the 16th 
February, 1827; sp. gr. =3°521. 
5. Dhurmsala, in the Punjaub ; fell July 14, 1860; sp. gr.=3°42. 
6. Kheragur (perhaps Dhenagur), near Agra; fell March 28, 1860 ; sp. gr. =3°39L. 
7. Parnallee. The largest of the two stones which fell at that village, in the 
Presidency of Madras, on February 28, 1857. Its weight is 180 lbs., and its sp. 
= SA, 
a Durala. Fell February 18, 1815, at Durala, in the territory of the Putteala 
Rajah, lat. 30° 2’, long. 76°52’. For a long time at the East India House, It 
weighs 20 lbs. per ? 
9. Agra. A stone the property of William Nevill, Esq., part of the stone recorded 
to have fallen on August 7, 1822, at a village in the neighbourhood of Agra, 300 
miles N.W. of Allahabad. Its sp. gr. =3-666. : 
10, 11. Two stones that fell, the one at Umballah, at an uncertain date, in one of 
the years 1822 or 1828, and the other at Bitoura, 75 miles N.W. of Allahabad, on 
November 30, 1822; sp. gr. of Umballah stone=3-448 ; of Bitoura stone=3'57. 
12. A part of one of the several stones that fell at Allahabad and Futtehpur on 
the last date. These last four stones may all belong to one and the same fall ; but if 
the date of Mr. Nevill’s Agra stone be correct, it is certainly a distinct one from 
the other three, Its high specific gravity, its large amount of iron, and general 
aspect would render it probable that it is so, which would confirm the correctness 
of its date. The Umballah stone is very unlike either of the others, and is probably 
a separate fall. 
That from Bitoura certainly belongs to the fall of Allahabad and Futtehpur. 
The sp. gr. of the Allahabad stones range from 3:54 to 3°57. 
13. A small stone fell in the field called the North Inch, close to Perth, in Seot- 
land, on May 17, 1830. A small portion of it was reserved by Dr. Thomson of 
Glasgow, and has since passed into the possession of Mr. Nevill. The British 
Museum is indebted to that gentleman for the half of it. It is a remarkable little - 
meteorite, very rich in a peculiar mineral with a radiated structure; sp. gr. =3-494, 
To the class of aérolites devoid of marked spherular structure belong— 
14. The Shalka stone that fell, on November 30, 1850, at Shalka in Bancoorah, 
engal. 
15. That of Bustee, in Goruckpur; lat. 26° 49', long. 82°44’. Perhaps the most 
singular of all known aérolites. It fell near that place on December 2, 1852. 
In it Mr. Maskelyne has detected a mineral to which he gives the name of Old- 
hamite—a yellow transparent body of cubic crystallization, consisting of a sulphide 
of calcium containing more than one equivalent of sulphur. Four other minerals 
in this aérolite were also crystallographically described, one of a golden-yellow 
colour, and cubic in its crystalline system. 
16, Moradabad ; sp. gr.=3'143 ; fell at that place in 1808, 
