fit, MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Size and Weight. 
The size on receipt at the Museum was 19|” x 131 x 8f" and its weight 
was 85 1 lb. As indicated earlier, at least two fragments weighing together a 
few pounds are known to have been removed, so that the meteorite weighed 
at least 90 lb. 
Form. 
The meteorite, owing to having distinct concave and convex surfaces 
with a maximum thickness between them of not more than 4 inches, may best 
be regarded as a deeply pitted shell-like fragment, which has a maximum 
length of 19-5 inches and a maximum -width of 13-2 inches. When resting on 
its convex surface (see Plate V) the highest point above the table is 8-8 inches. 
Both surfaces have been coated with a thin film of dark chocolate brown 
iron oxide crust, and only where the original surface has been broken is there 
any indication of the distinctly brecciated character of the meteorite. 
Both surfaces are well pitted, but the concave surface has several 
cup-like depressions as much as 5 inches in depth in one case. The depressions 
are relatively smooth and run one into the other, also they may be roughly ovate 
or circular in form The deepest depression perforates the mass. The convex 
side is more characteristically “ thumb-marked,” an average width for the 
shallow rounded depressions being If to 2 inches, while the perforation from the 
deep depression on the concave surface shows up as a rounded hole approxi- 
mately an inch in diameter. 
The shell has a maximum thickness of 4 inches, but over muc'.i of its 
area is rather less, perhaps 2 inches on the average. 
Brecciated Character. 
The very thin crust of iron oxide disguises rather effectively the 
distinctly brecciated character of the mass. The individual granules of kamacite, 
which in cross-section are polygonal (five or six sides being the usual number) 
and which are generally equidimensional in size, vary in diameter from 13 mm. 
to 2 5 mm., but have an average diameter of approximately 6 mm. 
In between the kamacite granules plate-like crystals of tsenite and 
probably plessite are arranged eutectically, while distributed through the 
kamacite crystals themselves are troilite granules and rounded to irregular 
granules of what is believed to be sc-hreibersite (see Plates VI and VII). 
Chemical Composition. 
The following chemical analysis was made by Mr. F. Connah, of the 
Government Analyst’s Laboratory, on the borings made by drilling a half-inch 
hole to a depth of 14 inches. 
For comparison, the analysis has been arranged in a table along with the 
average composition of iron meteorites as determined by Merrill, 1 with the 
1 Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., xlv, 1926, p. 124. 
