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THE GEOLOGIST. 
out the next morniug, his horse was frightened by the sight of a 
black stone, deeply bedded in the soil of the road, the ground around 
it being depressed and creviced. When dug out the meteorite 
■weighed al)out 7 lbs. The fiuder broke off some fragments, and the 
remainder, weighing 5^ lbs., was deposited in the Museum of the 
Reformed College at Debreczin. This meteorite has the shape and 
size of a small loaf of bread. Its crust is black, covered with con- 
centrically radiate furrows and tubercles. Its mass is greyish-black, 
with globular concretions, and acts energetically on the magnetic 
needle. Its internal structure, in general features different from that 
of any meteorite hitherto known, most resembles. in its structure 
that which fell at Renazzo. 
The Kaba meteorite has been found to contain a certain quantity 
of carbon, together with another substance into the composition of 
which carbon enters. Professor Woliler, of Gottingen, found the 
composition of this substance to bear a great analogy with certain 
minerals of a wax-like constitution, such as ozokerite, 'scheererite, &c., 
which ai"e all carburets of hydrogen. 
3. — On the Meteorite of Kakowa {Banat). By Pkopessor Wohler 
AND M. HaIDINGER. 
The fall of this meteoric stone, on May 19th, 1858, at 8 a.m., was 
attended with the usual phenomena : a small black cloud in the air, 
a hissing and thunder-like noise, heard at two Austrian (five English) 
miles distance, a short and loud explosion at the moment when the 
stone — in a state of considerable heat — touched the ground, into 
which it penetrated to a depth of three inches. Lieutenant-General 
Count Coronini, Governor of the Banat, sent the stone to the Imperial 
Geological Institute, and it is now added to the rich collection of 
meteorites in the Imperial Museum of Mineralogy. 
The meteorite of Kakowa (although complete as in the moment of its 
fall) bears the appearance of being a fragment from a larger mass, with 
markedly rounded angles and edges, and a black cortical substance, 
about half an inch thick, extending into the interior in the shape of a 
vein. Minute particles of metallic iron are nearly uniformly spread 
throughout the whole stone. 
Professor Wohler submitted it to an analysis. The portions extracted 
by the magnet give; metallic iron, 82.95; nickel, 11.41; cobalt, 
1.08 ; and inappreciable quantities of phosphorus, copper, and oxide 
of chrome. 
The analysis by means of carbonates of potash and soda gave : 
silica, 41.14 ; magnesia, 27.06 ; oxidulated iron, 27.47 ; hme, 0.68 ; 
and some oxidulated manganese. 
Fluoric acid decomposed the substance of the meteorite into : 
silica, 41.96 ; magnesia, 27.06 ; oxidulated iron, 23.95 ; alumina. 
