402 Prof. Cassels on the fall of a Meteorite in Hindostan. 
This meteoric stone has all the appearances of this class of me- 
teorites; it is coated with the usual black vitrified crust, and 
with a corresponding varying depth; some of them being a 
having numerous circular spots of dull white. Throughout ils 
recent surface are numerous brilliant specks of nickel, and dis- 
tinct crystals of nickeliferous iron with a good deal of iron 
rust. Olivine and schreibersite can also be identified with 4 
magnifier, : ; 
The meteorite is remarkable for the great amount of nickel it 
contains—nearly 17 per cent, while the iron is about 3 per cent. 
This metal is not uniformly distributed throughout the mass, 38 
is plain even by an examination of the surface by a magnifier, 
The magnet abstracts 21:151 per cent from the powdere 
stone. Color of the powder olive green. Sp. gr. 3-421—3:464. 
An examination of the stone detected the presence of silica, 
lime, potassa, soda, oxyd of iron, sulphid of iron, oxyd of chro- 
ium, oxyd of manganese, iron, nickel, cobalt, copper, sulphur 
and phosphorus. y 
[A pisolitic structure is very evident in the stone, spherica 
asses of meteoric pyrites enclosing often a minute grant 
white silicate, and surrounded with a coating of a blackish 000 
and magnetic. A similar pisolitic structure has been noticed in 
other meteorites, as for example in that of Weston, Co 
- 14). The mottled character of the fresh fracture, en 
large patches of gray and white contrasted with a darker groun 
is strikingly similar in these two stones. Very unlike howev® 
is the distribution of the iron which in the Connecticut stop? 
