VICTORIAN METEORITES, WITH NOTES ON OBSIDIANITES. 
YARROWEYAH METEORITE. PLATE IV. 
Class. — Siclerite— Ataxite. 
Weight . — Originally 21 lbs. 
Locality. Between 4 and 5 miles S. of Yarroweyah railway 
station (Lat. 36°, Long. 146° 23' W.), Allotment 7, Section A, Parish 
of Yarroweyah, County of Moira. 
Date of Discovery. — -1903. 
Date of First Record. — 1903. 
Collection . — National Museum, Melbourne. 
A note from Numurkah reporting the discovery of this meteorite 
appeared in the Melbourne Age on the 13th April, 1903, in which 
it stated— “An aerolite weighing over 20 lbs. has been brought 
into the town by Mr. T. Holden, whose boys found it in one of 
their father’s paddocks. The aerial visitor has evidently been lying 
in the earth for many years, as its surface has been considerably worn 
by rain. The meteoric stone is composed of metallic iron and 
silicate, and bears evidence of having been fused in course of 
descent.” 
Correspondence was opened with Mr. Holden, now of Sand- 
mount, with the result that the meteorite was acquired by the 
Museum in February, 1913. Holden stated that it had been 
found on his property in the parish of Yarroweyah, about 4 
miles southerly of the township and railway station of the same 
name, which are some 4 or 5 miles from the river Murray. He gave 
the weight of the meteorite as 21 lbs., but said that he had broken 
off a small piece weighing about 2 lbs. and had sent it to Professor 
J. Gregory, then professor of geology in the Melbourne University. 
This piece is probably still in the possession of Professor Gregory. 
When received at the Museum the meteorite weighed exactly 
20 lbs., so that the piece sent to Gregory could not have been so 
heavy as Holden imagined, or else his weighing was inaccurate. 
Since its arrival at the Museum, for the purpose of making this 
investigation, two plates weighing about 5 ounces were cut off 
parallel to the rough face made in breaking off Gregory’s 
fragment. 
The meteorite measures 22J cm. by 15J cm. by 16 cm. The last 
dimension, however, was taken through the place from which the 
fragment and plates had been removed, and, therefore, it does not 
represent the original diameter in this direction. The specimen 
has a verv coarse lagged appearance, due to prominent points and 
ridges being emphasized by large saucer-like depressions It is 
coated all over with a thin skin of brown ferric oxide and bears 
evidence of slight scaling at numerous small spots on all parts of 
fhp surface As far as the writer is able to form an opinion, the iron 
seems to have the characteristics of the Babbs Mill Group. 
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