The Queensland Naturalist, Vol. 1 « 
Avriter can learn, the first description of a specimen from 
this region is due to W. Flight. This meteorite was 
derived from Victoria, and the account of it is contained 
in a paper entitled, “ The Siderites of Cranbourne, near 
Melbourne, Victoria.” — Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. Loud. 
1882. Since then we have papers, principally from’^the 
pen of A. Liversidge, on meteorites from New South Wales, 
Tasmania and Queensland. New Zealand also has yielded 
one that has been examined and described. 
The Queensland meteorites were derived from speci- 
mens from Thunda, near Windorah, Diamantina District, 
in 1886 ; from Mungindi, on the south-western border, in 
1887 ; and from Roebourne, Hammersly Range, in 1894. 
That from Thunda weighed Icwt. or more, and por- 
tions of it have been examined by many investigators, 
including Liversidge, Avho was the first to write about it. 
Even now specimens derived from it are on the market. 
According to E. Cohen, alrea^dy quoted, it contains 98*85 
per cent, of nickel iron. He cites also the findings and 
accounts given of the iron by different investigators, who 
are in general agreement regarding its composition. Vid. 
Meteoreisen Studien, Part XI., Vienna, 1900. 
All the meteorites hitherto described as found in 
Australia are iron meteorites, with the exception of the 
Delaquin one of which Prof. A. Liversidge has given an 
account, which is partly iron and partly of stone composi- 
tion. 
The writer Avill now allude to two specimens that he 
has seen and handled that are not iron meteorites. As, 
however, the overtures for the loan of the specimens in 
1896 did not result in their being forwarded to Brisbane 
for description, he can only produce the briefest notes 
(made in May, 1896), concerning them that were made 
on a hurried examination, when the opportunity for a more 
extended investigation appeared to be a matter of certainty. 
These meteorites fell at Rockhampton, Queensland, 
in the spring of 1895, or nearly tAvelve months j>rior to 30th 
April, 1896, when they Avere inspected- 
No. 1. — This meteoric stone AA^as seen by Mr. J. Howe, 
of North Street, to come during a bright afternoon from a 
south-Avesterly direction, betAA'een 4 and 5 p.m., and to 
fall in Candle Street. It buried itself in the ground on 
striking the earth and Avas picked up, 
•The stone, on being found, Avas in four pieces, and had 
been shared by tAVo Avitnesses to the occurrence. On these 
pieces being fitted together, the object AAmghed 21bs., but 
missing fragments AAnuld amount to quite lib. more. 
It was sub-pyramidal, slightly rounded and narrowed 
at one end, and concavely flattened at the other, having 
interior and posterior irregularly-convex faces meeting 
