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Meteorites. 



By Presentation : 



Mokoia, Taranaki province, North Island, New Zealand ; 

 fragments, weighing 196-3 grams, of the stone which fell on 

 November 26, 1908 : by the Curator of the Public Museum, 

 Wanganui, New Zealand. 



By Exchange : 



Leighton, Alabama; a slice, weighing 91*4 grams, of the 

 stone which fell on January 12, 1907. 



South Bend, Indiana ; a slice, weighing 181 grams, of the 

 iron found in 1904. 



By Purchase : 



LaTnpa, Sierra de Chicauma, Chili ; a fragment weighing 

 220 grams. 



Sheiusbury, York Co., Pennsylvania, an etched slice, 

 weighing 938 grams, of the iron found in 1907. 



Goamus Farm, near Gibeon, German South-West Africa, 

 an etched slice weighing 6,610 grams. 



All these Meteorites belong to falls hitherto unrepresented 

 in the Museum Collection. 



IX. — Students and Visitors. 



The number of visits recorded as made to the Department 

 for the purposes of consultation or study is 850. 



The Gallery being no longer reserved on particular days of 

 the week for use by students, and study-series having been so 

 arranged as to be directly accessible to the public, and so 

 labelled as to render reference to the staff for information 

 thereon almost completely unnecessary, it has become difficult 

 to distinguish, for statistical purposes, " Students " of minerals 

 from ordinary " Visitors," and stress can no longer be laid on 

 the distinction. 



X. — Demonstrations. 



Demonstrations on the physical characters of minerals were 

 given to the members of the Battersea Field Club on March 5, 

 and to the members of the Croydon Natural History and 

 Scientific Society on April 16. 



G. T. Prior. 



