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matter had been eaten out and dissolved, leaving the remainder 
1. 
sufficiently connected to main- 
tain the original figure of the 
body. This honeycomb appear- 
ance is also represented in three 
of the drawings (fig. 2) made by 
Dr. Porcher. 
This is all that I have been 
aps, in 
Berzelius detected what appear- 
ed to him to be an organic re- 
siduum (resembling burnt hay) 
in the French meteoric stone of 
. Alais that fell March 15, 1806; 
and bearing more distinctly still 
ganic nature (resinous) in the 
meteoric stone of Kaba, Hun- 
carbonaceous matter in the 
Stone that fell Oct. 13, 1888, 
at Cape of Good Hope, —a 
meteorite originally described 
by Sir John Herschell and Prof. 
araday. Prof. Harris states in 
his valuable thesis on meteor- 
ites (Gottingen, 1859), that he 
nds @ quarter per cent of bitumin 
Which is soluble both in aleohol and ether, 
ube over a spirit lamp. It finally burns with a bituminous odor 
and the deposition of carbon. 
SECOND SERIES, Vor, XXVIII, Ne. 83.—8EPT., 1359. 
35 
ous matter in the Cape stone, 
and fusible in a _ 
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