384 . Jo. L. Smith on Lead in Meteorie Irons. 
washed with hot water, with all the usual precautions when 
nickel is precipitated by an alkali. The precipitate is dried, 
ignited and weighed; after which it is dissolved in nitric acid 
The mixture of oxyd of iron and phosphate is now to be 
heated in a platinum crucible to the soint of fusion of the car- 
«8, Lead in Meteoric Irons. a 
instance of the finding of lead in meteoric irons is 
paca iron, found in 1840, in Chili, which was 
