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Proposed by the President, seconded by the Secretary. 



Dr. S. M. Shircore, Civil Surgeon, Twenty-fourPergunnahs. 

 Proposed by Dr. Partridge, seconded by the Secretary. 



In accordance with the notice given at the last meeting, A. Grote, 

 Esq., was balloted for and elected an Honorary Member of the Society. 



The election of H. Blochmann, Esq., as General Secretary of the 

 Society, reported at the last meeting, was confirmed. 



The President said that while the ballot was proceeding, he would 

 submit for the inspection of the Society, a magnificent specimen of a 

 Meteorite, which he had recently received. This was a portion of the 

 known fall which took place at Klein Menow, near Fiirstenberg in 

 Mecklenburg-Strelitz, on the 7th October 1861, in the day time, about 

 half-past one o'clock. The stone, as it fell, was tolerably perfect, 

 being coated in most places with the usual vitreous crust. This, in 

 the present fall, was much more rough and irregular than was usual. 

 The stone was purchased entire by Baron Reichenbach, who then was 

 forming a fine collection of these objects, and it has since then remained 

 with him. He declined to cut it, so as to allow other collections to 

 have portions. More recently he has been anxious to dispose of it, and 

 about the beginning of the present year, it passed into the hands of Wm. 

 Nevill, Esq., Grodalming, whose collection of Meteorites is known to all 

 interested in these enquiries, as the finest private collection now 

 existing. Indeed his series will rank fourth or fifth among all collec- 

 tions, either public or private. To the kindness of Mr. Nevill, he was 

 indebted for this splendid specimen, which is about one-third of the 

 whole mass. As yet he had only been able to examine the polished 

 surface of the mass where cut — and it is not easy to determine the exact 

 structure of the fall in this way. The members would see the appear-t 

 ance it presents. Round sub-angular and occasionally globular-looking 

 masses of a darker colour are irregularly scattered though the mass of 

 the block, which consists of a kind of net work of iron. The mass is 

 magnetic. 



From Mr. Nevill, he had also received a specimen of the rarest of 

 all known meteorites hitherto only known to be represented in his 

 own collection and in that of the British Museum. The only known 

 fragment originally belonged to the Lettsom collection which passed 

 into Mr. NevilPs hands, and was divided with the British Museum. 



