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Tron Nickel Phosphorus Insol. in H?C 
be Yd 0°37 0°05 O07 == 2°66 
The nickel and cobalt of the insoluble part was found to be 15°49 
nickel and 0°19 cobalt. This left 81°66 for the iron. Raimondi 
found three pieces of it to contain 81°42, 85°61, 87°59 of iron, and 
18°52, 14°37, 12°38 of nickel. 
3. Meteorites—A meteorite which fell near Virba (?) in Turkey 
on the 20th of May last has been described before the Academy 
of Sciences of Paris by Daubrée. It has a grayish silicated ex- 
terior and contains numerous grains of nickeliferous iron and _sul- 
phide ofiron. It contains also some grains of chromic iron, 
Daubrée states also that he had obtained four ne gments 
of the meteorite which fell at Saint Amand (Loir-et-Cher) in 1872. 
—L’ Institut, Aug. 5. 
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