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Sonthern States, one of which weighs 1-45 kilogrammes, or 32|^ oz. 

 avoirdupois. 



1879, November 4. — Kalumhi, "Wayee (Wai, Jaluca), Sattara, 



Presidency of Bombay, India. ^ 



Brezina records the presentation to the Vienna Collection of a 

 piece of a meteorite weighing 165 grammes by Mr. M. Wood, of the 

 Bombay Branch of the Eoyal Asiatic Society. The fall occurred at 

 the above place and date, and the stone has the form of a foux'-sided 

 wedge, with a nearly square base. Its weight is 10^ lbs. and 197 

 grains, and its density is 3-45. According to an incomplete analysis, 

 58-75 per cent, was insoluble in hydrogen-chloride (consisting of 

 silicates, and the silicic acid of the decomposed portion), and, in ad- 

 dition, there was iron oxide, or rather iron protoxide with alumina 

 27-62, nickel 1-56, lime 0-83, and magnesia 11-88 per cent. The 

 meteorite resembles Forsyth, has a light yellowish ground-mass ; 

 the chondra are firmly inclosed in the ground- mass, and for the most 

 part white and felspathic. This stone is to be classed with the 

 white chondrites. 



1880, February 18, early in the Morning. — Kuritawaki-mura, 



Yosa-no-gori, Tango, Japan.^ 



An eye-witness of the fall of this stone states that in the early 

 morning he was washing his face, when he saw a ball of fire ci'oss 

 the sky from north-east to south-west. He was much astonished 

 when a small stone fell before him from the sky. He caught it up 

 and found it was vei-y hot, and gave forth a smell like that of 

 gunpowder. The stone is about 1^ inches long and three-quarters 

 of an inch wide, and weighs about 100 grains Troy. It is com- 

 pletely covered with a hard black glaze. It appears to be a stone 

 and not a meteoric iron. 



The same correspondent mentions a meteoric stone of large size, 

 preserved at Toji, which is said to have fallen from the heavens in 

 ancient times ; and reports another at Chionin. He also says : " I 

 learn that a stone of several pounds weight fell at Tamba a few 

 years ago." 



The same number of the Ja'pan Gazette contains a short reference 

 to another aerolite. The mineral stone which fell some time ago 

 at the front of a gate of Iwata, of Takeda-mura, Yabe-gori, Tajima, 

 with a brilliant light and report, is about 1^ sun thick and 9 sun in 

 circumference, and weighs about 200 momme. This stone has been 

 sent to the Bureau of Agriculture of the Home Department, and will 

 be investigated by Prof. Kinch. 



1880 (early in). — Colorado Basin, Ivanpah, Southern California.^ 



This block of iron was found in the Colorado Basin, within eight 

 miles of Ivanpah, which is about 200 miles north-east of San 



' A. Brezina, Sitzher. Akad. TFiss. 1880, Ixxxii. Oct. part. 



2 The Japan Gazette, April 19, 1880. 



3 C. U. Shepard, Amer. Journ. Sc. 1880, xix. 381. 



