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VI. An Account of some Stones said to have fallen on the Earth 
in France ; and of a Lump of native Iron , said to have fallen 
in India . By the Right Hon. Charles Greville, F.R, S, 
Read January 27, 1803. 
The experiments and observations made by Edward Howard, 
Esq. on certain stony and metalline substances said to have 
fallen on the earth, and the accurate description which the Count 
de Bournon has given of those substances, have, in my opinion, 
fully established the following fact, namely, that a number of 
stones asserted to have fallen under similar circumstances, have 
precisely the same characters. 
The stones from Benares, that from Yorkshire, that from 
Sienna, and that from Bohemia, were the whole which had then 
been seen in England. They all contained pyrites of a peculiar 
character : they all had a coating of black oxide of iron : they 
all contained an alloy of iron and nickel; and the earths which 
served to them as a sort of connecting medium, corresponded 
in their nature, and nearly in their proportions. 
Since the publication of Mr. Howard’s and Count de 
Bournon’s observations, I have received from France three 
additional specimens. Monsieur St. Amand very obligingly 
divided with me a specimen he had broken from a stone of 
about 15 inches diameter, preserved in the Museum of Bour- 
deaux, which stone fell near Roqueford, in the Landes, on the 
20th August, 1789, during the explosion of a meteor; it broke 
