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the report was so unexpected and surprising, that the herds were fright- 

 ened and ran away. No phenomena of light were observed. Haidinger 

 suggests that the fall took place perfectly vertically. This would give for 

 the season and geographical latitude of Nellore of 14° 23', N., about 

 three days after the entrance of the sun into the sign of Aquarius, and 

 for 4| p. M., about in the direction south from Ophiuchus towards the 

 earth ; and the Yatoor stone can be considered as having come pretty 

 nearly from this direction. 



According to Dr. Andrew Scott, it contains silicic acid, alumina, 

 magnesia, lime, sulphur, iron and nickel. . 



(2.) At the meeting of July 4th, 1861, he gave some additional infor- 

 mation about the Parnallee meteorite, (this Journal, [2], xxxn, 442.) 

 from observations made on a piece of 1 lb. H 'oth, (= 691 grammes,) 

 which had been sent to the Imperial Cabinet by Prof. Ch. A. Young, of 

 Hudson, Ohio. It forms on one side an uneven fracture plane, of about 

 4iX3i inches; about half of the other is covered with a crust, scarcely 

 of jV of one line in thickness, of a brownish black color, and with but very 

 little lustre. It shows the common roundish depressions, but remarkably 

 enough, some only one half or even one quarter of an inch in diameter, 

 and pretty steep ; the direction of the motion of the whole meteorite can- 

 not be determined therefrom. The whole piece is pretty flat. 



Numerous pale gray, partly whitish portions, mostly quite roundish 



imbedded through the mass, can be observed on a fracture ; on polished 



p'anes the structure becomes more perceptible, a homogeneous matrix 



'•■^'> not reallv exist, and a lens shows even the minutest portion to be a 



''^■i^ture of hetorogoneous particles. Quite a numerous collection ot van- 



■> meteoric rocks would result if we could separate the larger fragmente 



:^'ii rounded stones of this meteor, which it would be seen could have ob- 



' ''^---l their rounded form only in a previous condition. V^hitish gray 



=^^-':cl.-rounded frairnients, up to i of an inch in fi^f'.^^^^VMHWnn^S 



'^-'■t<of crvstallin^e stones, similar to those of chladnite and pidd.ngtonite 



■'' ' i^.^.^'igny and Shalka. The compact black ones without l^^t-'Y -^^^^^ 



- ■ • -xe. but remarkablv angular, remind us of the peculiar Cold-Bok- 



ineteorites; then there are, in the n^'-^^ure metallic, compaco 



->-ly grained masses of an iron-pyrites of ^-^/'^^ ^'^.^^^^^^^ J 



•■- and quite inditlerent to the magnetic needle, hardly to be con^d- 



■ rrhotine. although their specific gravity, ^^ k ,7 'JvpT; small 



■^■•ticles of metallic iron are also present, but'n very small 



•■■. ^0 that the snociHc crravity of the piece at 18 K. was d i ,a 



^tone was porou-. and continually giving out a stream ot air 



■m'lt^lTJ^ r'?\ ^'7!'itff„pnts however, are certain much rounded 



^-' -^h or 1^':;!;% X ofte^yello; within a.d daj brown 



. ^^i^l'out, simiiar to 'those from I'Aigle, Chantonnay, ^entz Segowlee 



*tich on polished nh.u.os appear hke being inclosed v^Mth bnll.ant 



jnetallic rings. B t is inclolure is not produced by metalhc iron bu 



* bv a s„l,...^,„. .:,.. : :..o Tf shows but very isolated traces of 



It shows but very i 

 c iron, as in the met 

 - characteristically i 



