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ous analysis of it has been made, I offer mine to you for the Journal, 
Prof. Shepard expressing a desire that it should be published. 
The piece of meteoric iron given me by Mr. Thompson, who brought 
it from Colorado, _ weighs four ounces, It has been heated in a forge fire 
the ean, was a crust about one-eighth of an in ch thick, sone 
of sulphid of iron. This base in the unaltered meteorite is a bisul- 
phid of iron mixed with oxyd o 
o eae of the clean Aa aid ‘off from the mass has the Sp. gtos 
chemical analysis Bs the most approved method, separating the 
oe 
iron from the nickel by succinate of ammonia and determining the nickel 
as oxyd of nickel and hee analyzing this oxyd for cobalt and co per— 
are as 
trae iron, -? - - - 90-650 
“ nickel, - - - - 7867 
* cabal, - - - - 0-010 
red - 0°020 
seta oki consisting of a a little silien} schrei- 
bersite and chrome as prov se by ih in- 
precedes 0°950 
99°497 
2. Hothaices ¢ in China; by 8. W. Wiittams.—On Tuesday at 6 P.M. 
on J une 5, 1866, a thunder storm came fr ortheast, and broke 
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peed to cease. The shower taeréd forty minutes, leaving the yards 
re with hailstones, but as pe wind was light no damage was done, 
€ very largest stones were 4 to 44 inches in circumference ; the pre- 
vailing shape was conical, and almost all the stones exhibited a ‘aiet of 
Strata of air through which they passed in their descent m 
of very apie degrees of temperature to pr roduce nee reer layers 
of ice and snow in the stones. Such hailstorms are not frequent in the 
North of China, and the people say that this one is the most remarkable 
since J uly, 1838, when the stones were like oranges and apples and mel- 
= for size, and "itd great damage to dwellings and trees. 
U. ff Coas : Su urvey.—The eminent mathematician, Prof. Pierce of 
Havari inted to the office d Superintendent of oes — 
office has recently been filled i the appointment of Mr. Ce 
Son, one of the best zoologists of the country. — ah ae 
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