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" On a Meteoric Stone found at Makariwa, near Invercargill, 

 New Zealand." By Professor G. H. F. Ulrich, F.G.S., of 

 the University, Dunedin, New Zealand. Communicated 

 by Professor J. W. Judd, F.R.S. Received December 14, 

 1892,— Read February 2, 1893. 



Introductory. 



The stone under notice was not seen to fall, but the following de- 

 scription regarding the site of its discovery, its mineral character, and 

 structure can leave no doubt of its being of meteoric origin. 



Towards the end of the year 1886, when a large party of mining 

 prospectors were preparing, with Government aid, for departure to 

 the Big Bay district, west coast of Middle Island, Mr. Th. Fenton, a 

 student of the Dunedin University School of Mines, was sent to Inver- 

 cargill, where the party assembled, to instruct those of the men who 

 desired it in rough assaying for gold and the use of the blowpipe. 

 On the occasion of one of his lectures, he received from a Mr, Arch. 

 Marshall, for examination, a piece of stone which, from its weight 

 and appearance, was supposed to be something out of the common. 

 Mr. Fenton made a rough qualitative analysis of a sample of the 

 stone, and on finding strong reactions for nickel, thought it of suffi- 

 cient interest to preserve the several small fragments remaining of 

 the piece received from Marshall and to bring them with him to 

 Dunedin, where be placed them at my free disposal. One of these 

 fragments I devoted to the preparation of a number of thin sections 



