AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[THIRD SERIES.] 
Art. XXI.—On the Gases contained in Meteorites. Second 
paper; by ArrHurR W. Wrieut, Yale College. 
In a previous article, published in this Journal, April, 1876, 
the writer gave the results of investigations upon the nature of 
the gases evolved from a number of meteorites of both the iron 
and the stony classes, when exposed to a more or less elevated 
More common type, containing a considerable percentage of 
nickeliferous iron, without any appreciable quantity of uncom- 
? 
Several other points of importance, referred to in the previous 
Yale College. Tt contains an inconsiderable propor- 
Sct.—Turep ct tae Vou. XII, No. 69,—Sspt., 1876. 
