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and globules, somewhat crystalline in their crdss-fracture, which leave 
impressions when falling out of the brittle mass. 
alcutta Meteorites.*—At the meetings of the Imp, Acad. of Vienna 
of June 8th, November 3d, and the last one of the year 1860, W. Hai- 
dinger has given some accounts of the “Caleutta Meteorites,” which had 
been acquired a.short time before by the Imperial cabinet of minerals, of 
which we give the following abstracts. 
(1.) The Meteorite of Shalka (or Shaluka) in Bancoorah fell about’ 80 
did not wake up the inhabitants of Bhora } of a mile distant. The stone 
peeled off and stuck to the earth in small fragments; the surrounding 
earth had the appearance of burnt clay. 
The stone is very peculiar, the fine grained portion of a whitish color 
Tesembles pumice, the darker ash-colored crystalline portion forming 
coarsely grained aggregations of individuals of two lines in every direc- 
Matic planes, The real fractur s greasy lustre @ mass - 
tremely friable and fragile; H.—=6:5; Sp. gr. at 19° R.=3°412, 
mall grains up to the size of a millet-seed of chromic iron, sometimes 
forms irregular reticulated particles, which show somewhat more lustre. 
t does not contain any metallic iron. The grey mass contained ac- 
Bilidie Heid, ee “los Gere = 57°66 ‘ == 30°50 
Alumina, onal - - ~ trace . * sete 
OxydofIron,- .- + + ==2066 = 
5 
= 1°53 = 0°43 oot 12°64 
=1900 =760 
la enr iddi bles in composition an o j 
; y Piddington, and resembles apo : 
mineral, (alleged to have come from the meteoric iron of Grimma) and 
Shepard’s Chiadnite. 
__* Die Calentta-Meteorite, von Shalka, Futtehpore, Pegu, Assam, und Segowlee 
im k, k, Hof Mineralien-Cabinete von W. Hamwinexe. 
