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bok Eiver specimens in the British Museum * and Bement's t 

 Collection. 



It follows therefore that three only of these localities — Great 

 Namaqualand, Orange River, and Lion River — can be regarded as 

 yielding separ.ate irons, j Cabaya, given for the Tubingen specimen, 

 and Great Pish Eiver for the one in Gottingen, must be abandoned ; 

 Springbok River is doubtful, while Namaqualand as given for the 

 Cape Town specimen and Captain Alexander's Great Fish Eiver 

 are probably identical. 



Great Namaqualand being a somewhat extensive region, it is 

 desirable that a less vague local name be attached to the iron here 

 described. It will also avoid confusion with the Great Fish River 

 and Orange River irons which already appear in the literature 

 under "Great Namaqualand" if, as in the title, the designation 

 ' Bethany, Great Namaqualand," be adopted. Even when, as 

 I conjecture, the identity of Captain Alexander's iron and that in 

 Cape Town is proven, this name will still remain more correct, since 

 Alexander himself has stated that his specimen was found near 

 Bethany, and " Great Fish River " is nearly as indefinite a designa- 

 tion as " Great Namaqualand." 



In the two photographs sent by Professor Corstorphine the 

 Bethany iron shows a rounded form. One view presents a surface 

 closely covered with depressions, which, however, appear to have 

 been reduced by the exfoliation caused by rusting (Plate VI.) ; the 

 other view shows a surface less rounded and with fewer indentations, 

 but these are, at least in part, much deeper, and are confined to a 

 narrow central zone (Plate VII.). 



Of the meteorite itself I had for examination ten slices, weighing 

 together 1,590 grams, and having a total polished surface of 480 sq. 

 cm., five having each from 60-75 sq. cm. 



Of the larger slices not one remains uniform after etching, but all 



* Fletcher in his catalogue simply states that the piece came fromi the Burkart 

 Collection. 



f Fourth rough list of meteorites. Philadelphia, 1897. 



I After the above lines had been printed, I had occasion to compare some 

 pieces from Lion River in Vienna. Those in the Hofmuseum are really rather 

 different from the South African Museum mass from Bethany ; but a slice in the 

 collection of Dr. Brezina shows the same development of Plessite as the latter 

 iron, so that I am now convinced that Lion River described by Shepard (Notice 

 of meteoric iron near Lion River, Great Namaqualand, South Africa. Am. 

 Journ. of Science, 1853, (2) xv. 1-4) belongs to the same fall as Bethany. Accord- 

 ingly there only remain Orange River and Bethany as proved different falls 

 from South-West Africa. 



