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orites, as in that of Parnallee, the minerals are tolerably isolated 
from each other; and the fact, that the chemist, in dealing with 
such meteorites as those of Chantonnay, Stannern, Luotolax, Bok- 
kevelde, and Bishopville, is enabled to place each of them as 
the characteristic member of a group, may furnish ground for 
the hope that approximate methods may be found for at least de- 
termining the nature of the minerals contained in ~~ given me-. 
teorite. One such method appears to be furnished 
I have sought by these means to determine the lithological 
character, if I may so call it, of some of the undescribed me- 
teorites in the British Museum. As a nomenclature is much 
_ wanted in our language to represent what is so completely ex- 
3 Sieg by the terms Meteorstein and Meteoreisen in the German, 
propose calling the former (the meteoric stone) by the original 
term Aerolite, the meteoric iron by the term Aerosiderite, anc 
the intermediate varieties (including the Pallasites of Rose), in 
which the iron is continuous and associated with silicate, by the 
: with the National Museum in London their valuable acquisitions 
in Indian aerolites. These five stones fell at four distinct places, 
