446 Dr. Walter Flight— On Meteorites. 



be more likely to be ruptured along this suture than anywhere else, 

 as no doubt the lateral portions of the shield were free, as in the 

 living genus Apus, the appendages being all fixed near the head to 

 the anterior portion of the carapace in front of the cervical suture. 



Ellipsocaris Deioalquei is not an exception to this rule, being also 

 destitute of the small (cephalic) anterior portion of the shield in. 

 front of the cervical suture.^ 



IV. — Supplement to a Chapter in the History of Meteorites. 



By Walter Flight, D.Sc, F.G.S. 



{Continued from p. 429.) 



Part II. 



1744, December 10th (before this date). Hizen, Japan.^ 



Dr. Divers has drawn attention to two Japanese meteorites, the 

 property of a gentleman, Mr. Naotora Nabeshima, formerly Daitniyo 

 of Ogi or Koshiro, in the province of Hizen, Japan. They are 

 heirlooms in his family, and used to be in the care of the priests of 

 one of the family temples in Ogi, called Fukuchi- in Gomado. After 

 the revolution the temple was closed. In the family archives there 

 is a record of these stones having been entrusted some years after 

 their fall to a priest named Jishobo, which is dated December 10th, 

 1744, and his receipt for them is also preserved ; they must there- 

 fore have fallen about 150 years ago. They were formerly among 

 the offerings annually made in the temple in Ogi to Shokujo 

 (Tanabatatsume) on her festival, the 7th day of the 7th month ; they 

 were connected with her worship by the belief that they had fallen 

 from the shores of the Silver Eiver, Heavenly Eiver, or Milky Way, 

 after they had been used by her as weights with which to steady 

 her loom. 



The meteorites are somewhat similar in appearance, being angular 

 masses, evidently fragments, irregular quadratic jayramids in shape. 

 The smaller shows a number of small pits or depressions. Faintly 

 marked thin ridges and streaks are to be seen on both stones, 

 radiating with some regularity from about the centre of the base 

 over the basal edges towards the apex ; the edges and faces are all 

 rounded, and have the usual very thin, nearly black, coating. The 

 interior is light grey in colour, earthy, porous, somewhat soft, and 

 interspersed with particles of nickel-iron and a few of troilite. The 

 larger stone weighs 5 -6 kilog., the smaller 4-6 kilog. The density 

 of the stone was found to be 3-62. 



The analysis made by Mr. Shimidzu, one of the students of the 

 Kobu dai Gakko, led to the following results : — 



1 Since this paper appeared in the Annals of the Geological Society of Belgium in 

 August last I have published descriptions of a series of five new forms of Phyllopod 

 shields from the Upper Devonian of the Eifel under the genera Cardiocaris and 

 Fholadocnris. See Geol. Mag. 1882, September No., pp. 385-390, PL IX. 



2 E. Divers, Asiatic Soc. Japan, Tokiyo, Feb. 9th, 1882. Chemical News, 1882, 

 slv. 216. 



