246 Professor C. U. Shepard on Meteorites. 



2. Char wallas, 30 miles from Hissar, India, June 12, 1834. 

 This is another stone of which the only notice I have met 



with is found in the Appendix of the above-mentioned work 

 (p. 143), Prof. Partsch remarking that no portion of the mass 

 had made its way into Europe. The entire stone is in the 

 possession of Prof. Jameson, to whom it had been presented 

 — for the Museum of Natural History in the University of 

 Edinburgh — by a gentleman resident in India at the time of 

 its fall. Its exact weight I am not able to give ; but I have 

 the impression that it cannot fall short of 7 lb. or 8 lb. I owe a 

 slice of it to the kindness of Professor Jameson, from an exa- 

 mination of which I am able to give the following description. 



It is one of the toughest stones, if we except those of 

 Chantonnay (Aug. 5, 1812) and Cabbarras Co., N.C. (Oct. 31, 

 1849), with which I am acquainted. It is filled with iron 

 rust, like certain weathered, fine granular granites, in conse- 

 quence of which, and the smallness of the particles of com- 

 position, it is impossible to recognise the mineral species 

 (with the exception of the nickeliferous iron) of which it is 

 made up, although olivinoid, and one of the feldspar species, 

 appear to be the leading ingredients. 



On exposure to the air, it deliquesces, yielding chloride of 

 iron ; but this does not prove chlorine to have been an ori- 

 ginal ingredient of the stone, since the mass, as in the case of 

 one of the Iowa (Feb. 25, 1847) stones, may have been since its 

 fall in some situation where chlorine has been imparted to it. 



Its specific gravity is 3*38. It contains 15*07 per cent, of 

 nickeliferous iron, with traces of sulphur. The stony part con- 

 sists of silica, magnesia, protoxide of iron, alumina, and lime. 



it ni) bar 



3. Meteoric Iron, County Down, Ireland. Fell August 10, 



5 P.M., 1846jr nT i m 



For a knowledge of this meteorite I am indebted to my 

 friend Dr John Scouler, Prof, of the Royal Dublin Institu- 

 tion, who wrote me as follows, respecting its fall, in February 

 1848. " I believe 1 must give you the credit of having dis- 

 covered another meteorite in Ireland, or in other words, but 

 for you I would not have been at the pains of finding it out. 

 The stone or stones fell in 1844, in the north of the county 



