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thus covered ; while interspersed were patches with the pecu- 

 liar tiny vaceolar " goose skin " depressions often seen on the 

 outer rind of iron meteorites, where they seem to be a phe- 

 nomenon of the cooling of the crust. The lower side of the 

 mass is more irregular and rough, with apparently little crust, 

 but it has a thin coat of mnd still adhering to it, acquired 

 doubtless while it lay for several days by a tank in the Palace 

 yard. A fine, thread-like black line, faintly distinguishable, 



Yeranrin. About ^ nat. size. 



passes obliquely across the face, and is clearly a line of flow- 

 ing. This is 12^ inches long, and it, with several shorter lines 

 of coinciding direction, shows clearly the direction of the 

 stone in its passage through the air. Certain small areas of 

 the mass are veneered by a flake of thin iron. Some of these 

 appear to enter the mass as thin plates. The crust or rind 

 of the meteorite is of a dull grayish brown color, and is exces- 

 sively thin, a mere varnish. Through this rind project count- 

 less little points of metallic iron, making little burrs or sharp 

 protuberances on the surface, which have often been flattened 

 or blunted. The surface shows also a few little buttons, barely 

 2 mm across, of jblack, shining iron oxide ; with one or more 

 nodules, from 5 to 10 mm in diameter, of crystalline honey-yellow 

 olivine. The ends of the stone have been much abraded by 



