264 BROWN : CATALOGUje OF CALCUTTA METEORITE COLLECTlOisf. 
Date of 
Fall or Find. 
Name and Description. 
Fell 1818, June 
FeU 1850, November 30 
Fell 1865, August 26 
SERES, Macedonia, Turkey. 
Stone. Grey chondrite, Cg. 
Fragment from interior, with 
one polished face. Interior 
dark-grey and rusted, with 
lighter chondri, and many 
metallic grains. Reg. No. 86 
SHALKA, Bishnupur, Bankura 
District, Bengal, India. 
Stone. Chladnite, Chi. Large 
mass partly covered with 
crust. Interior, texture 
coarse and very friable, large- 
ly made up of big, dark green 
and greenish-grey bronzite 
crystals. It is traversed by 
a few, thin, light coloured 
veins. Crust thin, smooth, 
reddish -black, traversed by 
a system of minute cracks. 
Reg. No. 174 . 
Fragment with crust. Interior 
like previous specimen, but 
rather more broken. Crust 
rougher and rather scoriace- 
ous. Reg. No. 174 (2) 
Fragments, some of which bear 
crust, and dust. Reg. 
No. 174 (5) ... 
1851 : Piddington : Journ. Asiatic 
Soc, Bengal, Vol. XX, pp. 
299-307. 
8HERGH0TTY, Gya, Bihar, India. 
Stone. Shergottite, She. Main 
mass of the stone, covered 
for the greater part with 
crust. Interior pale greenish- 
grey, crystalline, rather 
friable, showing abundant, 
long, rod-like augite crys- 
tals. Crust thin, dull black, 
with the exception of the net- 
work of scoria lines, which 
are shining black and give a 
roughened appearance to the 
