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The meteorite in question is so intimate a mixture of metallic 

 and stony matter that it is difficult to say whether to rank it 

 among the stony or metallic meteorites. Treated with a mix- 

 ture of nitric and chlorhydric acids, and slightly warmed, the 

 metallic portion is rapidly dissolved without the form of the 

 mass being altered. Its mineral constituents are readily sepa- 

 rated by the combined aid of chemical and mechanical means, 

 and besides the iron I have been enabled to separate small but 

 distinct particles of chromic iron, small spherical masses of 

 olivine as beautiful in color and as transparent as that from 

 the Pallas meteoric iron, and also a pyroxenic mineral; and 

 perhaps with a larger amount of material to work upon other 

 minerals might have been recognized. 



I have nothing to add to the careful chemical examination by 

 Prof. Joy, having detached mechanically most of the minerals 

 that he deduced from analysis. 



