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grammes was found to possess a density of 4-36. The fractured 

 surface showed a grey, passing into green ground-structure, with, in 

 places, single pieces of an oil-green mineral, with a lustre of glass, 

 probably olivin. In the mass lay, closely strewn together, small 

 and large granules of white iron ; also little plates of this metal lay 

 inclosed in it, and violet-blue tinted grains, similar in their play of 

 colour to copper pyrites. 



The pulverized mineral is pretty light, and almost entirely soluble 

 in hydrochloric acid. The fractured surface was covered in a few 

 days with a thin oxidized crust, although some portions of it are as 

 fresh after five months as at first. 



In his note on this meteorite Brezina ^ states that the fall took 

 place at Veramin, in the month of April, not May. He received 

 a fragment from Baron Godel-Lannoy, Secretary of the Legation at 

 Teheran ; the portion which Dietzsch I'eceived appears to have been 

 lost. Brezina's piece weighs about 16 grammes, the meteorite itself 

 weighs 20 to 25 kilogrammes, and is preserved by the Shah in 

 a garden. This stone, it appears, belongs to the rare group of 

 mesosiderites, of which but two members, Barea (1842) and Esther- 

 ville (1879), have been seen to fall. The remaining members of this 

 group, Niakornak (1856), Hainholz (1856), Janacera Pass (1860), 

 Newton Co. (1860), Sierra di Chaco (1862) and Sierra di Deesa 

 (1865), have no crusts. The Persian stone has a fused crust of 

 a lustreless, granular, dull grey colour, with, in places, rusted spots ; 

 it closely resembles that of Daniell's Kuil (1868), it is exceedingly 

 thin, from 0*05 to 0'08 mm. On the freshly-fractured surface the 

 Persian stone bears the greatest resemblance to that of Newton Co. ; 

 numerous crystals of olivine, some 2 mm. in diameter, in one 

 case a mass 7 mm. across, are inclosed in a highly crystalline gi'ound- 

 mass, which appears to consist for the most part of olivine. 



1880. Found in May. — Lexington County, South Carolina.^ 



A mass of iron, weighing 10 J lbs., was found at this locality, in 

 May, and sent to the Shepards, father and son, for examination. It 

 has the form of a cylinder with two flattened edges ; the surface is 

 nearly free from yellow hydrated peroxide of iron, being mostly 

 enveloped with a black and brittle coating, which, though contain- 

 ing some troilite, is yet almost entirely formed of magnetite. Amyg- 

 daloidal masses of troilite, of the size of filberts, are met with. 

 Magnetite and graphitoid are found coating the troilite. The Lex- 

 ington iron closely resembles the Bohumilitz iron, found in 1829, 

 and preserved at Prague, especially in the two etched surfaces : they, 

 in fact, are the only two which strikingly show the moire metallique 

 lustre ; the crystalline bars in the Lexington iron are nearly twice 

 as large as those in the Bohemian specimen. The included spaces 

 are filled with extremely minute lines of tanite, crossing each other 



1 A. Brezina, Sitzher. K. AJcad. Wiss., 1881, Isxxiv. July part. 

 ^ C. U. Shepard, Amer. Jour. Sc. 1881, xxi. 117- 



