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miles from Bugaldi Post Office. Mr. Gould was driving a team 

 of horses and passed over it and examined the broken ground to 

 discover the cause." 



In reply to another letter of mine asking for further data, 

 Mr. Wilcox informed me that he accompanied Mr. Gould to the 

 side of the Box Ridge where he obtained the meteorite, and with 

 him examined the spot where it struck the earth. There was 

 only a small impression as there had been general showers of rain. 

 The spot was viewed from all sides, and from the impression on the 

 ground and by the way the meteorite was lying, it must have 

 <3ome from the north-west. When picked up it was lying flat, the 

 larger end slightly in the earth, but it had probably shifted from 

 the position when it first struck the earth. 



Shape and General Description. — Its greatest longitudinal 

 measurement is about 5f inches, its greatest breadth about 3^ 

 inches, and its greatest thickness about 2J inches. It is pear- 

 shaped, or as one person described it, similar to a bicycle 

 seat. This meteorite belongs to that class known as siderites, 

 and is probably composed of iron and nickel. It has a well defined 

 closely adhering 'skin' of black magnetic material, while the 

 metal immediately beneath this coating is silvery white in appear- 

 ance. This ' skin ' has apparently formed after the impact. At 

 the extremity of the larger end a smooth portion remains, and on 

 this can be seen very distinctly, Widmanstatten figures. 



The specimen has an exceedingly new appearance as if it had 

 only just arrived upon the earth. It is almost a replica in shape 

 of the Bingara Meteorite described before this Society by Prof. 

 Liversidge in 1882, but much larger than that one. It has similar 

 cracks and pits on the surface. The narrow end appears from 

 indications in the skin to have slightly twisted, but whether this 

 end is the original mass and the thick end to have twisted from 

 it can only be determined by analysis. The skin on the upper 

 surface and towards the base of the thicker end is undulate, and 

 on the corresponding part of the lower surface is longitudinally 



