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Notices of some Meteorites, by Dr. Ilornes, Professor Wdhler, and 
Director W. Haidinger. Read before the Imperial Academy of 
Sciences, Vienna, July, 1858, and January, 1859. Communicated 
by Count Marschall, of Vienna. 
1. — On the Meteorite of Ohaha (Transylvania). By Dr. Hornes. 
This meteorite fell in the night, between October 10th and 11th, 
1857, at Ohaba, east of Carlsberg, in Transylvania, and was subse- 
quently acquired for the Imperial Mineralogical Museum of Vienna. 
Soon after midnight of October 10th, the curate of Ohaba was 
frightened out of his sleep by a thunder-like noise, attended by a 
liery mass moving through the serene atmosphere, in a descending 
direction, and finally falling on the ground with a stunning detona- 
tion. Next morning, the meteorite was found in an orchard, where 
it had penetrated the tough, moss-covered ground. It is completely 
covered with the black crust peculiar to meteorites ; its shape is that 
of an irregular trilateral pyramid, fourteen and a half inches high ; 
two of the irregularly curved surfaces are smooth, the third and the 
basal one exhibit the characteristic roiind impressions. 
A fresh fracture at the base exhibits the interior, of a light greeu 
colour, slightly tinged with dark bluish grey, with indistinct spherical 
concretions, a great plenty of coarse and fine particles of metallic iron, 
very minute particles of magnetic sulphuret of iron, and a very 
scarce admixture of olivine. The crust is thin and opaque. 
This meteorite is very similar to that of Chateau-Renard (June 
12th, 1841 ; -weight, between 70 and 80 lbs.) ; and on account of 
the indistinct form of its spherical concretions, it must take its 
place amongst Partsch's " Normal Meteorites." It weighs 29 lbs. ; 
its specific gravity is 3.11. An analysis, made by Dr. Buckeisen, iu 
Professor Wohler's laboi-atory, pi-oved it to be a compound of olivine, 
augite, and a felspar-like mineral, with interspersed particles of 
metallic and sulphuretted iron. 
2. — On the Meteorite of Kaba {Hungary). By Dr. Hornes. 
This meteoric stone fell April 15th, 18.j7, near Kaba, south-west 
of Debreczin, in Central Hungary. About 10 p.m. an inhabitant of 
Kaba, sleeping in the open air, was awakened by a noise, different 
from that of thunder, as he described it, and perceived in the serene 
sky a luminous globe, of dazzling brightness, following a parabolic 
course during four seconds. This phenomenon was observed by 
several inhabitants of the same place. As one of them was riding 
