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ous balls, almost touching each other and moving from N.E. towards 
S.W. Also another one* of Aug. 12th, 1850, which according to Coul- 
vier Gravier consisted of small balls, 
2. the same meeting Dir. W. Haidinger gives some details of the 
fall of the meteoric stones of Parnallee, near Madura in Hindostan, of 
which smaller piece is in possession of the Western Reserve College 
at Hudson, Ohio, containing according to the analysis of Dr. Cassels 
(this os . 402), 3 per cent of metallic iron and 17 per cent of nickel, 
r. HS. Taylor, chief of the American pee n at Madura, gave in the 
eéhicsenctlGts of the Geographical Society at Bombay in 1857, the first 
notice of the fall of two very large stones, one of 37 Ibs, the other four times 
that weight. The larger stone is in the Madras museum, the smaller has 
been sent to Hudson, Ohio 
According to the report of Mr. Taylor, ae stones fell a little S.E. of the 
village of Parnallee, 9° 14’ N. Jat., and 78° 21’ E. of Greenwich, the larger 
a few seconds before the smaller and two to five miles north of it. From 
the direction of the we which they produced by their fall, they came 
from about N. 10° making with the perpendicular an angle o of from 
15° to 20°, the small one almost erpendicularly, The most rounded 
convex part, in which the centre of gravity Jay, was ro wusinihe in the 
th. e larger mass Bae de ated the ground two feet five inches, the 
The fall was etek ied ‘e two Laible reports resembling thunder 
claps. They were heard at Tuticorin on the coast of the Gulf of Manaar, 
40 miles south, and very loud at Madura, 16 athe distant. Althou 
several persons stood in the neighborhood, where the fall took place, nei- 
id of the stones was seen falling; a cloud of dust rose from where the 
ruck, Their shape is compared with cannon-balls of large o 
Gand, although somewhat irregular, with a black smoky crust, the 1 
rior resembling granite with particles of iron. 
or about seven years it has been known that several huge masst® distr 
iron existed near Western-Port, stint of Melbourne, in Australia, : 
meteoric origin however, was first suggested by Mr. Fitzgibbon Severs of 
data relating to them obtained from a letter of G. Neumayer, Director od 
the Flagstaff Observatory to Prof. von Hochstetter, were oe ee eel, 
"at the neeting of the Imperial Academy of Vienna of April 18th, 
by Director W. Haidinger: om 
he % r mass weighs from five to six tons, the other about 1} he ‘ch 
They are covered with a crust of the well known constitution, in whi 
the usual cavities are not wanting. The relative ae of the 
_ masses is N. 20° E,, and they are about three f miles apa 
- Both masses lie near the surface, so deep that only ter tops projec 
above the ground. The tertiary sandstone, occurring a es 
also found there and basalt at the-depth of from 12 . 15 feet just 
.* Loe, cit., p. 224, 
