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stance resembling liver of sulphur is stated by Chladni in his paper 

 JJeber der Ursprung der von Pallas gefundenen und anderer ihr 

 ahnlicher Eisenmassen, page 26, to have been found at Coblence. 1 

 Wohler 2 detected the presence of a little free sulphur in the carbon- 

 aceous meteorite of Cold Bokkeveldt (1838, October 13th) ; and 

 Roscoe 3 found 1*24 per cent, of sulphur in the remarkable carbon- 

 aceous aerolite which fell at Alais (1806, March 15th). 



Galle's paper contains a detailed examination of the observations 

 of the path of this meteor, made over a wide area. 



1873, August 24th— Marysville, California. 4 



All the facts that I have yet been able to gather respecting this fall 

 are that an aerolite, weighing 121bs., crashed through the tree-tops 

 with a bright flash, and was buried to the unusual depth of eight 

 feet in the ground. When dug out it was so hot that it could not 

 be handled. 



Found 1873, August 27tL — Eisenberg, Saxe-Altenburg, Germany. 5 



A block of metal, weighing 1-579 kilog., was left exposed on the 

 surface of the ground at the foot of the Schneckenberg, north of 

 Eisenberg, by a heavy thunder shower washing away the surrounding 

 soil. It is a finely granular iron, through which are disseminated 

 here and there yellow particles of magnetic pyrites or troilite. 

 Unlike metallic masses of undoubted meteoric origin, it contains 

 neither nickel nor cobalt ; when etched with nitric acid it exhibits, 

 in place of figures, minute star-like forms. It has the composition : — 

 Iron 97-27 



Phosphorus 

 Carbon ... 

 Silicic acid 

 Graphite 



0-21 

 0-44 

 1-50 

 0-90 



100-32 

 The presence of silica was confirmed by treating the white amor- 

 phous rounded particles, which remained undissolved, with hydro- 

 fluoric acid. 



1873, September 23rd, 5- 10 a.m. — Khairpur, 12 miles south of 

 Multan, 36 miles E.N.E. of Bhawalpur, Punjab, India. [Lat. 

 29° 56' N. ; Long. 72° 12' E.] 6 



The morning is described as having been remarkably clear, and the 

 sky unclouded, with a faint glow in the east, the sun still being 

 45 minutes below the horizon, when a meteor, or rather a cluster of 

 meteors, appeared to the west of an observer at Khairpur. Each 



1 Comment, de rebus in Scientia Naturali et Medicina gestis, xxvi. 179. 



2 F. Wohler. Sitzber. Wien. Akad. Wiss., 1863, February 24th. Phil. Mag., 



xxv. 319. 



3 H. E. Eoscoe. Proc. Lit. Phil. Soe. Manchester, 1863, February 24th. Phil. 

 Mag., xxv. 319. 



4 Nature, 1st January, 1874. (From Iron.) 



5 H. B. Geinitz. Sitzungs-Ber. der Isis zu Dresden, 1874, 5. 



6 H. B. Medlicott. Jour. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1874, pt. ii. no. ii. 33. The Pioneer, 

 Sept. 30th, 1873. 



