Prof. Maskelyne and Dr. Lang's Miner alogical Notes. 149 



gitic and felspathic ingredients of the aerolite. The Labradorite 

 crystals in some Melaphyrs, and especially in a specimen from 

 Darmstadt (among several that M. Kesselmeyer was so good as 

 to forward to me), present a remarkable similarity to some of 

 these bacillary aerolitic minerals, and are similarly associated 

 with a white nearly opake body. 



The section of the Kusiali meteorite is sprinkled with small 

 iron-particles, and by Troilite in a somewhat smaller amount. 



Kaee, Oude, 



Among the recent acquisitions made to the Collection of 

 Meteorites in the British Museum is a stone presented by Tho- 

 mas Maclear, Esq., Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope. 



This unique little aerolite was accompanied by a document in 

 Persian, which was " a copy of the original in the intelligence 

 department of the district of Sandee in the Elakar or country 

 of Aga Mirza (in the kingdom of Oude), dated 2nd of Zeekad, 

 1253 hizree, corresponding with January 29, 1838." 



The stone, and the record of its fall, were sent by the King 

 of Oude to Col. Caulfield, Acting Resident at the Oude Court, 

 to be forwarded to the Resident, Col. Low, C.B. Col. Low 

 gave them to the Astronomer Royal at the Cape, to whose libe- 

 rality the British Museum has been indebted for them, as on 

 previous occasions it had been for specimens of the Cold Bok~ 

 keveldt Meteorite. 



The certified translation of the Persian document runs as 

 follows : — " To-day, after sunset, though there were no clouds, 

 thunder was heard, and the men were astonished ! It was 

 afterwards ascertained that in the village of Kaee, held in nakar 

 (rent-free) by Hidayut Allee, the Taalookdar of the village of 

 Kugtalee, &c, a stone fell from the sky. The aforesaid 

 Taalookdar sent that stone to the reporter of intelligence; its 

 colour is black, and it weighs 17 tollahs and 6 massahs." 



This " sky-stone," as it is called in the Persian superscription, 

 is a small complete aerolite, presenting the well-known appear- 

 ance of an irregular solid, bounded by planes comparatively flat 

 with their edges rounded. The crust had been broken away 

 along two of the edges, and one of these has been worked so as 

 to exhibit a considerable polished surface, in which the characters 

 of the stone may be seen. The weight of the stone is 

 7 oz. 160 grs. In external appearance the Kaee stone much 

 resembles the aerolites of Doroninsk, Ohaba, and Griinberg, 

 and is, like them, a member of the large Chondritic class of Rose, 

 They present on their polished faces much meteoric iron, in 

 small but thickly sown and pretty equably disseminated grains, 

 rather showing a tendency to agglutination or to being strung 



