140 Scientific Intelligence. 
3. St. Denis- Westrem.*—At the meeting of the Imp. Acad. of Vienna 
of October 4th, 1860, Director Haidinger gives an account of the me- 
teorite of St. Denis-Westrem. * Sapo 
The fall took place without detonation and accompanied only by slight 
noise, similar to the rattling of carriages, on June 7th, 1855, 73 P. M. near 
the town of St. Denis-Westrem, about 24 miles from Ghent in Belgium. 
It fell about 30 paces from a man and woman. It penetrated the ground 
7005 grammes, its sp. gr. = 3'298. 
orm is very remarkable, similar in shape to an “ Ananchites,” : 
is more ev 
equally rounded, especially on the edges. The edges between the rough 
erust being very thin and of very little lustre. 
he absence of a detonation in this case as well as at Linum near 
such as occu at New Concord for instance, is worthy of our fullest 
attention. The size of the meteorites seems to have nothing to do with 
i very 0 as an independent motion through space, until, after 
itself has a rapid motion roun un, every point of its surface one 
corresponding with the daily rotation round its own axis. It certainly 
an occur that a meteorite rushes from space tangentially upon the 
of compression of the air but not a total absence of it. At the same ume, 
however, the resistance in the rotation of the atmosphere may have its 
influence, which can act in opposition to the rotation of the meteorite 
round its own axis. 
The stone resembles those of Reichenbach’s 2d family, “ somewhat blue- 
ish stones,” Slobodka, Chateau-Renard, Lissa, etc., and especially that of 
ew Concord, Ohio, 
The stone contains finely disseminated iron and pyrrhotine, the latter 
sometimes filling up vein fissures, which give it the character of a fragment 
rom a very large mass, a real mountain of rock. : 
Disseminated through the whole mass are spots of so called ironrust 
* Der Meteorite von St. Denis-Westrem im k.k. Hof. Mineralien-Cabinete von 
W. Harinerr. 1860 (Oct.). . 
