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softer than the surrounding substance, and the iron within them is 
distributed in a different way. Several globules have darker grey 
tints ; one of them l-§"' in diameter is positively dark-grey. Several 
of these included corpuscules are of angular, not rounded, section, 
occasionally with plate-like bright planes indicative of crystalline 
structure. 
The crust is brownish-black, opaque, with here and there isolated 
or grouped, roundish shallow depressions not referable to the figure 
of the stone, as they appear only in a fragment. Short fissures cut 
the cortical surface into angular irregular tablets of T ’ ¥ to J- of an 
inch in diameter. On the surface of fusion, some fissures or included 
globules of the inner substance are perceivable by aid of lens. 
The crust, less than -Jj of an inch in thickness, includes, occasionally 
particles of metallic iron — I found the specific weight = 3.526 at a 
temperature of 17° B. Dr. Tytler in his accurate description gives 
3.352 — 4.281, a difference depending on the unequaljdistribution of 
metallic particles. 
The Futtehpore stone ranks undoubtedly among Dr. Keichenbach’s 
Family 11, group ] (whitish meteorites without included - distinct 
globules of darker colour) together with the series of 22 meteorites 
from Nashville to Asco comprising those of Manerkirchen, Milena, 
Wold-cottage, &c. A fragment of the Zaborzika meteorite, preserved 
in the Imperial Museum of Vienna is scarcely distinguishable as to 
its exterior aspects from the Futtehpore meteorite. 
The specimen most kindly transmitted by the Asiatic Society 
Calcutta, has been cut into two, to gain a better knowledge of its 
internal constitution. The crust spreads over about a of the stone, 
the rest being laid bare by fracture. One piece weighs 13f ounces, 
the other 2| ounces. 
II— Pegu, (December 27th, 1857). 
The substance of this meteorite is light-grey, with a bluish tint 
consisting entirely of isolated round globules, or granules, easily 
separable and as it were, imbedded into white sand, the whole being 
of a nearly friable consistence, and so easily broken that any section 
would have been impracticable, without a previous immersion into a 
hot solution of Silicate of Potash (Fuchs's wasserglas ) and subse- 
quent desiccation as used at Vienna since 1846, for frangible and 
