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Imperial Vienna Collection. If you compare it with Mr. H. Pid- 

 dington's Catalogue of the Meteorites preserved in the Museum of 

 the Asiatic Society, published in 1844., Vol. XIII. No. CLV., N. 

 S. 71, page 885, you will find that we possess none at all of those 

 mentioned in your Catalogue, and that in your Catalogue also none 

 is mentioned of those preserved in ours, if we except the Pallas 

 iron of Siberia and the Mornay Iron of Sergipe in your Catalogue, 

 which are the same as No. 94, Krasnoyarsk, and No. 104, Bahia, of 

 ours. Now we propose a fair exchange. Probably since 1st of 

 January, 1845, your collection may have been considerably enlarged. 

 I would therefore be very much obliged to you in the first place, if 

 you would kindly communicate to me a catalogue of the Meteorites 

 aud Meteoric iron, at present in your Museum. To state the num- 

 ber and weight of specimens, would be most interesting in this 

 catalogue. Then we should be obliged, and very much obliged in- 

 deed, for your communicating to us specimens, either fragments or 

 entire masses, where you possess several of the same fall. If in 

 some case or other there should not have been any chemical ana- 

 lysis published, I should be most happy not only to give a new 

 description of the Meteoric stone or iron mass, but also to get an 

 excellent new analysis performed. I should be particularly happy, 

 to receive from you any information, additional to what is pub- 

 lished in your journal respecting the fall or other history of the 

 specimeus. 



The box containing the specimens might be sent with the Over- 

 land Mail, directed to " Kaiserlich-Konigliche Geologische Reich- 

 sanstalfc "Wien" with the declaration " Mineralogical Specimens." 

 If you would send specimens for examination, like for instance No, 

 4 of the Meteoric Irons, the Pulgur Stone of Nepal, " not examined, 

 perhaps meteoric" I should be glad to undertake the examination, 

 and then return the specimen, if you did not entitle me to keep 

 perhaps a portion of it for our own collection of Meteorites. I 

 should be glad also to get a portion of your Kurruckpore iron. 

 But there is the difficulty of cutting off a portion of it. It never 

 should be treated with a hammer. This spoils the structure altoge- 

 ther. I should advise you to get a portion sawed off in the direc- 

 tion here indicated making use of a steel seesaw without teeth, and 



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