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e ”, Meieoric Stone of Borkut—This stone, according to Dr, Franz Ley- 
dolt (Sitz. Wien, = si fell on the 13th of October, 1852, at 3% p. w. 
jorkut in Hun It was found wets oe t under ground, and still 
The Maret piece weighed 7 Vienna pounds and 64 loths, and 
ound 
tic. 14 
=e 10-06, copper and tin 0°40, ecipie'a 4:19, phosphorus 0-18 
Si 1 the Ca Na 
ans 36°16 3°07 21°43 1°20 86°34 0°50 127 
2 Insoluble, 57:29 420 1208 890 1767 114 8°72 
The soluble part eh toe nearly to olivine; the insoluble to 34°93 
a5 oligoclase and 65:59 pyroxene. From these two analyses, there 
were excluded : pels nt first, before deducing the percentage, 0°82 sul- 
Dlureto of iron, and 13-09 nickeliferous iron; from the second, 1°60 chro- 
Fig and wp Naat of C Connon naga Remains 
02 PP 8vo, with 11 plates.—This third Decade on the Seah, Re 
a is the first yet issued. No.I is pre; by J. W. 
and nine out of the tem plates are already ney ee? ae II is 
by James Hatt of Albany, and will treat of Canadian G tes; there 
gist of the Survey, and nae of the Cystider, Star- 
Crustaceans. It e a work of great merit, ee our knowlege of 
one of the obscurest departments of Palson . Besides ¢ 
and Star-fishes, a new genus called Cyelocystoides, containing Niseoid 
species of Echinoderms, is described by E. Silnses and J. W. Salter 
r It is remarkable that the Canadian Lower Silurian rocks have furnished 
of B. Dawson & Son, Montreal, 
the case in this country that the Reports, made un cinerea: 
orders on scientific subjects, are are inaccessible to those who would value 
x4 fourth Decade is in hand which will illustrate the Crinoids of the _ 
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