TI. A. Ward — Four New Australian Meteorites. 135 



Art. XX. — Four New Australian Meteorites ; by Henry 

 A. Ward, Rochester, K Y. 



[Read before the Rochester Academy of Sciences, Jan. 11th, 1898.] 



Three of the meteorites below described were obtained by 

 me during a trip through Australia in 1896. The fourth was 

 sent to me during the following summer. 



Roebourne. 



This iron meteorite was discovered in 1894 by Mr. H. 

 Reginald Hester on an alluvial plain 200 miles southeast of 

 Roebourne (the nearest town) and 8 miles from the Hammers- 

 ley Range of hills, in northwest Australia. The old aborigi- 

 nals say that it was always there ! The specimen was taken by 

 Mr. Hester to Perth, the capitol of West Australia, where it 

 was deposited in the Public Museum and lay for several years. 

 Casts of it had been made in the meantime and distributed to 

 various Australian and European Museums. In June, 1896, I 

 obtained the whole mass from Mr. Bernhard H. Woodward, the 

 curator of Perth Museum, who also gave me the above facts 

 as to the finding. 



The mass is shaped a little like the skull of an eagle. Its 

 length is 57 cm ; its width 34 cm and its greatest thickness 7 cm . 

 It weighed when entire 191 J lbs. or 86*8 kilos. 



Roebourne meteorite, 1 ft. 10| in. long. 



The entire surface is comparatively smooth, with the excep- 

 tion of the lower edge, which is characterized by large and 

 deep pittings, and further has the appearance of a portion hav- 

 ing been separated at this point either before or shortly after 



