78 Dr. Walter Flight — History of Meteorites. 



Found 1870.— Iquique, Peru. 1 



This mass of iron was discovered on a mountain slope on the 

 western border of the pampa of Tamarugul, ten leagues east of 

 the harbour of Iquique. It lay at a depth of from two to four feet 

 below the surface, being imbedded partly in a bed of nitre, of the 

 hardness of stone, partly in the overlying soil. When found, the 

 metal was so hard that two chisels were broken in an attempt to 

 remove a fragment of it. A piece that had been heated became 

 malleable, and was beaten into very thin plates. 



The Iquique iron has the form of a plate, 6 cm. in thickness ; on 

 one side it is convex, somewhat bent inwards on the other, with a 



on the nickel-iron, which had the composition : Fe = 88 - 55; Ni=ir5; the meteorite 

 resemhles that found at Hainholz some years earlier. 



(4). 1863. Siderolite (Brit. Mus. Coll.). Copiapo, Chili. — In the Ainer. Jour. So. 

 (1864) xxxvii. 243, C. A. Joy describes a siderolite from the Janacero Pass, 50 

 English miles from Copiapo, Province of Atacama, Chili. The spec, gravity of his 

 specimen is 4-35, and it was composed of nickel-iron, troilite, and silicates. J. L. 

 Smith (Amer. Jour. Sc, xxxviii. 386) considers it to he identical with the Sierra di 

 Chaco meteorite described by Eose (see No. 3). Captain Gilliss, of the United 

 States Observatory at "Washington, believes ' Janacera ' may he a misprint for 

 ' Jarquera,' the name of a river which rises in one of the Atacama passes. 



(5). (No date). Siderolite (Brit. Mus. Coll.). Atacama, Bolivia. 



(6). 1866. Iron (Brit. Mus. Coll.). Cordilleras of Atacama, Chili.— M. Daubree 

 (Compt. rend., lxxvi. 569) describes a large iron, weighing 104 kilog., acquired in 

 1867 for the Paris Collection. It was found in November, 1866, on the west slope 

 of the high cordillera of the Andes, between the Bio Juncal and the Salt-works of 

 Pedernal, 50 leagues N.E. of Paypote. (The difficulty of transporting heavy masses 

 across such an arid region is very great ; according to Dr. Phillippi ( The Times, 

 August 31st, 1874), it only rains about once in from 20 to 50 years.) This mass 

 bears on the surface the systems of lines which Tschermak observed on the Ilimae' 

 iron, and D amour finds them agree in composition. They are probably all members 

 of the same aerolitic fall. 



(7). (No date). Iron (Brit. Mus. Coll.). Sierra di Deesa, Chili. — Under this 

 name M. Daubree has given [Compt. rend., lxxvi. 571) a description of a brecciated 

 iron from the cordillera of Deesa, near Santiago, acquired in 1867. It closely re- 

 sembles the iron found in 1840 at Hemalga, in the Desert of Talcahuayo, in Chili. 

 It contains 2-4 per cent, of silicate, which has been chemically examined by Meunier. 

 (Sitz. Wien Ak., lxi.). 



(8). 1866. Iron (Brit. Mus. Coll.). Juncal, Cordilleras of Atacama, Chili. 



(9). 1864. Siderolite (Berlin Coll.). Atacama, 50 miles from Copiapo. — It 

 appears probable from the rough description of the locality that this may be the 

 same meteorite as the one mentioned under No. 4, although the dates do not corre- 

 spond. In that case J. L. Smith's view of the identity in character of the meteorites 

 will have to be extended to Nos. 3, 4, and 9. 



(10). 1870. Iron (Vienna Coll.). Ilimae, Desert of Atacama, Chili. 



(11). (No date). Siderolite. Taltal, Desert of Atacama. — J. Domeyko {Compt. 

 rend., lviii. 551) describes some masses of considerable size on the high plateau of 

 the Desert near the copper mine of Taltal, south of Imilac. The spec, gravity of a 

 fragment was 5 "64. 



(12). 1863. Siderolite (Vienna Coll.). Copiapo, Chili.— Described by Haidinger 

 (Sitz. Wien Akad. t xlix. 499), as a coarsely granular brecciated meteorite. The 

 nickel-iron, according to Von Hauer, consists of : Fe = 93 ; Ni=6 - 4. 



(13). 1859. Iron? Toconado, Desert of Atacama.— J. J. von Tschudi, writing 

 under the above date to Haidinger (Sitz. Wien Akad., xlix. 494), mentions a meteoric 

 mass, weighing 80 arobas (20 cwt.), which lies 20 leagues N.E. of Toconado. He 

 states that it agrees in structure and appearance with the Atacama iron lying 50 

 leagues southward. 



1 G. Rose. Abdruck aus der Festschrift der Gesell. Naturforsch. Freunde zu 

 Berlin, 33, Berlin : Diimmler, 1873. 



