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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
252p MEETING. Aprit 26, 1884. 
Mr. Harkness in the Chair. © 
Thirty-eight members and guests present. 
Announcement was made of the election to membership of 
Messrs. Davip Porter Hrear and Toomas MAYHEW WoopRrvrFr. 
Mr. J. R. EASTMAN made a communication on 
A NEW METEORITE. 
[Abstract.] 
A mass of meteoric iron weighing 113 pounds was accccidently 
discovered in the making of an excavation at Grand Rapids, Mich- 
igan, and was examined by the speaker in 1883. One face shows 
evidence of fracture, and the greater part of the remaining surface, 
of fusion. A very small sample submitted to Mr. F. W. Taylor 
for chemical examination had a specific gravity of 7.53 and a com- 
position : 
Tron i ; r d 94.54 
Nickel : : : ! 3.81 
Cobalt : i i 3 .40 
Insoluble (about) ‘ : 12 
The stone is supposed by its holders to consist of gold and silver, 
and to be the buried treasure of a miser. This delusion has caused 
it to form the subject of a lawsuit. 
The communication was discussed by Messrs. Bates and F. W. 
CLARKE. 
Mr. W. H. Datu read a paper on 
CERTAIN APPENDAGES OF THE MOLLUSCA.* 
* Published in the American Naturalist, Vol. XVIII, pp. 776-778. 
