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in form, but is much larger. Like the Bingera one it is a 

 siderite or metallic meteorite and is also somewhat pear- 

 shaped; it is a little over five inches long by about three 

 inches broad at the widest part, and it weighed before 

 cutting 2057*5 grammes. Its sp. gr. at 14° C. was found 

 to be 7*85. It was covered with the usual closely adherent 

 skin of fused oxides, except in one place where the skin 

 had been detached, probably when the meteorite first came 

 in contact with the ground — the Bingera meteorite also 

 showed a similar bare spot — the exposed metal had a bright 

 lustrous appearance like nickel iron. In places thin crack- 

 like markings are present in the skin; some of these are 

 evidently closely related to the crystalline structure of the 

 mass within, as they are straight as if ruled and meet at 

 definite angles. A few pits are noticeable upon the surface; 

 these are probably due to the former presence of granules of 

 troilite (FeS), inasmuch as some granules of this mineral 

 were found when making the sections of the interior ; 

 fissures in the skin are seen starting from these pits, but 

 these are irregular cracks quite distinct from the sharper 

 and straight lines, meeting at definite angles, previously 

 referred to. In addition to the larger and deeper pits 

 which pass into the substance, there are in places numer- 

 ous small ones due to the escape of gas bubbles from the 

 fused skin of the meteorite; these small pits resemble the 

 gas bubbles met with in slags and fused iron scale, see 

 Plates 3, 4, 5 and 6. 



There is, in addition, a very remarkable structure in the 

 skin; shown most clearly at the two ends of the meteorite, 

 which I have not observed in any other meteorite. At the 

 thick end of the meteorite the fused oxides forming the 

 skin have been thrown into well defined concentric waves 

 with transverse furrows running in the direction of the 

 thinner end of the meteorite, the waves and furrows gradu- 



