VICTORIAN METEORITES, WITH NOTES ON OBSIDIANITES. 
the liquid state to the surface. Practically all the exudation took place 
along the outside of the cut face, perhaps, on account of the patches 
being more freely in communication with the air, for, as stated, the 
central vein of troilite showed no exudation. The incipient effects 
caused by the expansion of lawrencite in the disintegration of a 
meteorite, is interestingly displayed in one of these patches and one 
of the troilite nodules, in showing longitudinal cracks extending 
right through them into the adjacent iron. Cracks thus formed 
must bring about a constantly increasing amount of disintegration 
by the increased facilities they afford for access of air and flow of 
the chloride. 
Silicious Residue. — Besides the schreibersite and flocc.ulent 
carbon left behind after treatment with hydrochloric acid there were 
a few small silicious particles. These consisted of transparent, 
angular particles, and milky-white grains, such as were noticed in 
both the Cranbourne No. 2 and Langwarrin meteorites, and appar- 
ently similar to those mentioned by Cohen in his description of the 
Beaconsfield meteorite. The milky-white ones, he says, resembled 
residual silica derived from the decomposition of a silicate, prob- 
ably olivine. As in the case of the other meteorites it cannot be 
definitely asserted that this residue was not, of extraneous origin. 
KULNINE METEORITE. 
Class . — (?) Siderolite. 
Weight . — 122 lbs. 
Locality . — Kulnine Run (Lat. 34° 8' S., Long. 141° 56' E.), 
County of Millcwa, about 20 miles from the township of 
Wentworth, N.S.W. 
Date of Discovery . — Known 1886. 
Date of First Record. — 1913. 
Collection . — South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 
Reference . — 1 (p. 60). 
Dr. Stirling, Director of the South Australian Museum, has very 
kindly given the following particulars, which are all that were supplied 
to him (3rd July, 1911) : — “ It was found about 3 miles from the 
Murray River midway between the South Australian border and 
Mildura. No stone of any kind is to be found for miles around the 
spot. It fell on fairly hard soil on a ‘ boxwood * tree flat, and a 
hollow was scooped out about 12 feet wide. It was fir st seen by a 
Mr. J. L. I hompson about 25 years ago, and then lost sight of, 
though Mr. Arthur Crozier had since tried several times to locate it. 
Mr. Gordon Crozier, a son of Mr. Arthur Crozier, the proprietor of 
the Kulnine Station, came across it a few months ago whilst muster- 
ing sheep, lhe spot where it fell is about 4 miles a little south bv 
west from the station (Kulnine). Weight, 122 lbs.” 
The specimen has not yet been described, but in Anderson’s 
record ( 1 p. 60) it has been placed as a doubtful siderolite. 
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