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THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



NOVEMBEE 8, 1871. 



Henry Hicks, Esq., M.E.C.S., of Heriot House, Hendon, N.W., 

 was elected a Eellow, Dr. Franz Hitter von Hauer, of "Vienna, a 

 Foreign Member, and M. Henri Coquand, of Marseilles, a Foreign 

 Correspondent of the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. The following letter from the British Embassy at Copenhagen, 

 transmitted by Earl Granville : — 



Copenhagen, Oct. 10, 1871. 



My Lord, — Two Swedish- Government vessels have lately visited 

 this port, having on board a scientific commission which has just 

 returned from an expedition to the coast of Greenland. They 

 brought with them a number of aerolites which had been found 

 on the coast upon the surface of the ground. These aerolites 

 are all of the iron class, and consist of masses of what is called 

 meteoric iron, of various sizes, the largest weighing no less than 

 25 tons. 



As these curiosities were discovered in Greenland, one of them, 

 the second in size, has been presented by the discoverers to the 

 Danish Government, and has been placed in the arsenal in this 

 city. 



I have, &c. 

 (Signed) Charles Lennox Wxke. 



Discussion. 



Mr. David Forbes having recently returned from Stockholm, 

 where he had the opportunity of examining these remarkable masses 



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