J. L. Smith— Victoria Meteoric Iron. 107 
Art. XIIL—A description of the Victoria Meteoric Iron, seen to 
fall in South Africa in 1862, with some notes on Chiadnite or 
Enstatite ; by J. LAWRENCE Situ, Louisville, Ky. 
_ Tux Victoria Meteoric Iron, although found about ten years 
since, has never been described; and yet it is one of the most 
interesting of this class of metorites. I have succeeded in col- 
lecting the following facts in connection with it. It was seen to 
fall in the year 1862 by a Dutch farmer in Victoria West, Ca 
Colony, South Africa, and was given by him to Mr. Auret the 
Civil Commissioner of that district, who presented it to the 
South African Museum at Capetown. 
Although it is an iron which has a tendency to decompose 
farmer have every confidence in his statement, we are led to 
conclude that it is to be placed along side of the Agram, Bran- 
A small fragment of it was first brought to Europe i 
n 1868, 
by which its true meteoric character was established. In 1870 
the trustees of the South African Museum had it cut, retaining 
one half of it, and sending specimens to the British, Calcutta, 
Vienna and Berlin Museums, also to Mr. Nevill of Godalming, 
and a mass weighing about twelve ounces to mysell, 
rom the s pobnee in my ssion I here (boa its char- 
acteristics, The iron is compact, with a tendency to fissure 
