‘On the Bingera Meteorite, New South Wales. 
yop erpamiea, pmo ei oe of Chemistry and Mineralogy 
in the University of Sydney. 
PRS Notice.) 
[* Read before the Royal Society of of N.8.W., 8 December, 1880.] 
meteorite was found by some gold-miners in the course o of 
shade work at Bingera, and was placed at my ese for examina- 
tion by the oe Department in eydney: 
In form this meteorite roughly resembles a pear ; it is about 
2 inches in length and 1} inch across at the thick end, ou. down 
ex one place where it had 
been rubbed off by the miners. This is lily 
recognized in the photo-heliograph as a white (See plate 
No. 4, fig. 2.) 
The skin is hard, brittle, of about the thickness of stout stout writing- 
7 - Paper, and possesses a laminated structure. At the yp r= of 
1 
with the internal crystalline structure, since some are 
where the erust or akin i sealed of t aagrren chen Feo” 
cody ey adadercorel yam peli he eat 
a" age say fms = prin gos geo in the crust 
the contracti culde after mi. 
Alsat vchhs depwentions seth obscurely shown in fig. 2, plate 4. 
ate De well marked polarity, de thin i i 2 ne 
tthe ted welgha af the the meteorite was 240°735 grammes, at 
228° ©., and its specific patie a5 5 sald 7-834 ; the specific 
ane feleoaeain ch cut off with a cold chisel was found to 
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