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drilling samples from Cranbourne No. 5 meteorite, and to Messrs. A. H. Mackie 
and C. D. Maepherson for drilling tbe Cranbourne No. 4 meteorite. 
Description of Plate IV 
Fig. 1. External surface of Cranbourne No. 5 meteorite, showing size and 
shape of specimen and nature of the scaled surface. (Photo. — Victorian 
Mines Dept.) 
2. Etched surface of Cranbourne No. 7 meteorite, showing coarse 
Widmanstatten structure and pyrrhotite nodule surrounded by 
schreibersite. Dark areas in centre of photograph are portions from 
which metal was plucked out along octahedral structures during 
preparation of the flat surface. (Photo.— J. Spencer Mann.) 
3. Etched surface of Cranbourne No. 8 meteorite, showing coarse octahe- 
dral structure and pronounced kamacite bands. (Photo. — Victorian 
Mines Dept.). 
4. Nodule of pyrrhotite with irregular rim of graphite and schreibersite, 
embedded in limonite; from Cranbourne No. 7 meteorite. (Photo. — 
J. Spencer Mann.) 
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