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into several fragments, and after an interval of about three minutes 

 three explosions were distinctly heard. One of the fragments of 

 the meteorite fell about three miles south of the village of West 

 Liberty in an open field, sinking, so it is stated, 15 feet into 

 the ground. Of the 100 kilog. which have been found, the 

 greater portion is in the Iowa State University Museum ; 25 kilog. 

 have been sent to Paris. Daubree traces a resemblance between this 

 stone and the aerolites of Vouille and Aumale. 



1875, April — . — Zsadany, Hungary. 1 



A preliminary note on this fall of meteorites has been communi- 

 cated to the Natural History Society by Krenner, the Keeper of the 

 Minerals in the Hungarian Museum at Pest. Their descent was 

 attended with an explosion, and the peasants who were witnesses 

 of the fall state that the fragments were cold at the moment they 

 reached the ground. Nine fragments, rather smaller than walnuts, 

 were collected, six of which, weighing 144 grammes, are in the pos- 

 session of the above Society. The investigation of this aerolite 

 has been undertaken by Wartha and Krenner; the former will 

 subject it to analysis, the latter examine its mineralogical characters. 

 It may be mentioned that the stones which fell at Dhurmsala in 

 India 2 (1860, July 14th) are stated to have been so cold that they 

 could not be held in the hand. 



186-. — Barratta Station, Deniliquin, Australia. 3 



It is stated in an issue of The Australasian of the date given below 

 that Mr. Eussell, the Government Inspector at Sydney, while visit- 

 ing Deniliquin, succeeded in acquiring for the Sydney Museum the 

 greater part of a meteorite which fell " some years ago " at Barratta 

 Station, 35 miles "below Deniliquin." The stone originally weighed 

 3001bs., but it had been broken up and fragments had been distri- 

 buted as curiosities. An announcement appeared last year to the 

 effect that Mr. Liversidge, of the University of Sydney, had made a 

 preliminary examination of its composition. No details have ap- 

 parently yet appeared. (As the date of the fall has not been defined, 

 I insert this imperfect notice at the conclusion of Part I.) 



Part II. 



In this Part it is proposed to present a digest, similar to that given 

 in Part I., of the memoirs and notices published during the years 

 1869 — 1875 in reference to meteorites, which either have been seen 

 to fall or have been found at a date earlier than the beginning of 1869, 

 including a description of their history, or of any investigations of 

 the physical and chemical characters of these meteorites, together 

 with such results as tend to correct earlier analyses. 



1 Egyetertes e's Magyar TIjsdg, 23rd April, 1875. 



2 W. von Haidinger. Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, xlii. 305 ; xliv. 285. 



3 The Australasian, April 22nd, 1871.— Nature, iv. (1871), 212.— See also The 

 Journal of Science, January, 1874, 123. 



