VICTORIAN METEORITES, WITH NOTES ON OBSIDIANITES. 
Reports op Meteorites, including the Haddon Meteorite. 
In addition to the private reports of the finding of meteorites 
investigated by the writer, and which, without exception, proved 
unauthentic, the following have come under his notice Mr. P. 
Baracchi, Government Astronomer, very kindly permitted access to 
letters and newspaper cuttings relating to meteoric phenomena, 
which have been filed in the Observatory since the year 1887. 
Among these were three reports of the discovery of meteorites. The 
first was a private letter, and referred to a find at Burwood, which 
was among those previously investigated by the author. The second 
report concerned the Yarroweyah meteorite described in this paper. 
The third report was from Timmering, and was published in the 
Melbourne Age of the 4th July, 1903. It related to the discovery of a 
meteorite at Elmore. After some trouble the specimen was pro- 
cured for examination and found to be a well-known form of an 
aboriginal pounding stone. The following account of the finding of 
a supposed meteorite was first published as a newspaper* report, 
and afterwards recorded in scientific literature']* without authentica- 
tion : — A beautiful meteor, seen half an hour after midnight on the 
14th April, 1875, was reported from Melbourne and various other 
places in Victoria. Mr. Gill, of the George Hotel, Haddon, about 
10 miles from Ballarat, stated that— “ He watched the meteor, and 
thought he saw some of it fall close by. In the daytime lie searched 
the locality, and found a lump of melted matter of light weight, 
and in colour nearly black, and a portion of a yellowish -brown 
substance, like cinders from iron smelting. There were two 
bits like coal-coke, quite black, and also a small bit of a yellow 
colour.” 
The Cranbourne, Beaconsfield and Langwarrin Meteorites 
PROBABLY ONE FALL. PLATE V. 
Cohen (11 pp. 1049, 1050) has discussed the question as to 
whether the Beaconsfield meteorite represents an independent body 
or whether it belongs to the Cranbourne fall. He says the distance 
between the two places where they were found offers no obstacle 
to the latter explanation. On comparing a slice of the Cranbourne 
No. 1, lent to him by the K. K. Hofmuseums, Vienna, Cohen found 
that its structure was very similar to the parts of the Beaconsfield 
meteorite, not containing colienite Only unimportant ddferenc 
W er% n °^n^ofoTthfsec n ttr ftletst^edt— 
Allowances must ^ jie made in 
the comparison for the relatively small extent to which the Cran 
bourne No. 1 has been opened up for examination. 
* Illustrated Australian News , 17th May, 1875, p. 74, woodcut, p. 68. 
t Flight, W„ Geol , Mag ., 1882, IX., p. 107. 
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