Metallic Meteorite, Queensland. 
By A. Liversipcr, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry in the 
University of Sydney. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S.W., 2 June, 1886.] 
PRELIMINARY NOTICE. 
Tus meteorite was found at Thunda, Windorah, in the 
eoreussapenl district, Queensland, and was kindly lent to me for 
examination by Mr. C. 8. Wilkinson, F.G.S., Government 
Ge ological Surveyor of New South Wales. 
Mr. Wilkinson was informed that this specimen was broken off 
a larger mass weighing a hundred weight or more, and it certainly 
has every appearance of having been recently detached.. The 
large piece is said to be buried about 4 inches in the ground, and 
the natives had covered it with stones, so that they evidently 
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found to be 7° 77 at 16° C, being ape mean of two distenandishas 
made on separate pieces, viz., 15 a ‘79. In form it is very 
irregular, the internal crystallised mes is all shown by the 
fractured surface, the plates standing out in bold relief and 
meeting one another at fairly regular angles which are apparently 
those of the octohedron. In the hollow on one side a distinct 
pitted structure is seen showing that this apparently formed 
one of the external surfaces of the meteorite, although the usual 
well marked skin of fused magnetic oxide is not present. 
Up to the present I have not had time to make more than a 
preliminary qualitative examination, but this shows clearly that 
this specimen has the usual ar ora of the metallic group of 
meteorites. It consists mainly of iron, with nickel, and a trace of 
cobalt, both sulphur and phosphorus are present, and apparently a 
trace of carbon, and I think it will “tis found not to differ materially 
from the New South Wales meteorite found at Bingera. (See 
Journ., Roy. Soc., N.S.W., 1882, p. 35.) 
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