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was accepted ; and an election was ordered for the next meet- 
ing to fill the vacancy. 
r. N. Holmes stated, that the lithographic plate which 
had been ordered, at a previous meeting, to represent the 
mass of Meteoric Iron found in Nebraska Ter. and mentioned 
in the Transactions of the Academy (p. 307), had been 
executed. It gives a very good representation of the object. 
The only data, historical or descriptive, concerning it, 
which he was able to furnish, were the following : 
This mass of iron was brought down from Fort Pierre to St. Louis by 
the American Fur Company’s steamer in charge of Mr. C. P. Chouteau, in 
1857, and by him presented to the Academy, in the spring of 1858. It 
was said to have been found in Nebraska Ter., at a point about twenty 
miles from Fort Pierre, which is situated on the right nk of the Mis- 
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a piece having been eviously cut 0 a specimen Since that time, 
two other specimens, weighing together about 34 Ibs been cut off, 
t the same end, and presented by tne Academy, the one to Prof. 
Shepard of New Haven, and the other to the al Mineralogical Mu- 
seum of Vienna. A;portion of the cut surface is visible at a in the accom- 
panying plate. 1. X XI.) 
d shape it irregular, hat flattened, with rounded cor- 
ners and obtuse edges. On three sides, the surface was covere with irregu- 
lar depressions or indentations. One of these sides, being a concave surface 
filled . . 
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there had been but a slight degree of oxydization of the s . . C. 
U. Shepard, who had an opportunit of examining it, thought it could not 
have been upon our earth more than some four or five . The iron was 
been called to it, at the time, had been well satisfied that they observed a 
distinct smell of something like camphor in the process of seg ee ‘ 
The length was 11 inches, breadth 4.6 inches ; thickness at oe ; 
Prof. Litton, to whom it had been referred for examination, I 
‘ i i bsence from completing the 
been prevented by illness and Dg tage aa ee coal conented 1 
T. o dhe v 
e work in his stead, the result of which he had communicated 
in the following note : 
Sr. Lours, August 20, 1860. 
N. Hotmes, Esq., Cor. Secretary of the Academy of Science. 
Dear Sir :—You will find below the result of the analysis, which I have 
made, of the Meteoric Iron, which was refe to 
ne thousand parts of the mass yield : 
Theses eer este onevee © oF 
Calcium +++++* eoaree oer 
Sulphur “seuee weaewetr* 
