98 Meteoric Stones. 



not equally blended, but separate into imperfectly formed crys- 

 talline series. If the iron is dissolved in an acid solution of sul- 

 phate of iron, the pure iron is set free almost by itself and its lam- 

 inae fall down in flakes. 



The elementary bodies hitherto found in the meteoric stones 

 make up just a third of those we are acquainted with, namely, 

 oxygen, hydrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, carbon, silicon, chrome, 

 potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, aluminium, iron, man- 

 ganese, nickel, cobalt, tin and copper. 



The following analyses of the meteoric iron may be cited j 

 some conducted at the same time by Wherle are added. 



Iron of Pallas. Iron of Ellenbogen. 



Berzelius. Wherle.* 



Iron, - - - - 88.043 88.231 89.90 



Nickel, - - 10.732 8.517 8.44 



Cobalt, - - - 0.455 0.762 0.61 



Magnesium, - 0.050 0.279 



Manganese, - - 0.132^ 98.95 



Tin and copper, 0.066 I 



Carbon, - - - 0.043 f ^ ^^^*^®- 



Sulphur, - - - a trace. J 



Metallic phosphurets 0.480 2.211 . 



The metallic phosphurets were found to contain : 



Of the Pallas Iron. Of the Ellenbogen. 



Iron, - - - - 48.67 68.11 



Nickel, - - - 18.33 > 17 '72 



Magnesium, - - 9.66 3 



Phosphorus, - - 18.47 14.17 



95.13 100.00 



This last result cannot possess entire precision, for the whole 

 quantity of the metal, which I was able to take for analysis, 

 was of the former only 3, and of the latter 2.8 centigrammes. 

 Wherle's analysis will be seen to agree more exactly with mine, 

 when I add that he had in the iron the alloy of phosphorus and 

 manganese, and also of magnesia, which fell as the ammonio- 

 phosphate of magnesia with the oxide of iron. 



Wherle has cited (in the forementioned Journal) still other 

 analyses of meteoric iron which I here communicate. 



* Baumgartners Zeitschrift HI, 222. 



