VICTORIAN METEORITES, WITH NOTES ON OBSIDIANITES. 
This meteorite was discovered in 1886, near the (? ) Ordovician out- 
crop, on the property of Mr. A. H. Padley, which is situated between 
4 and 5 miles S.E. from the Langwarrin railway station, by an 
employe while engaged in ploughing an orchard. Padley, not 
recognising the character of the find, rolled the specimen aside, 
thinking it part of the outcrop of an iron-ore deposit, just as had 
been thought by others in the case of the two Cranboume meteorites. 
It remained there until recognised by Mr. Murray, the Government 
Geologist at that time, who had visited the locality to report upon 
iron and other deposits. Padley, acting upon a suggestion of 
Murray, generously presented the meteorite to the Melbourne 
Technological Museum, where it was exhibited in the year of 
its discovery. In 1899, when the National Museum collections were 
removed to the Technological Museum building, the meteorite was 
transferred to the formeT institution. 
When discovered the specimen weighed 18 cwt. Subsequent 
scaling has reduced this by an amount which has not been ascertained 
by actual weighing. The loss has been roughly estimated at half 
a hundredweight, but probably this is too liberal an allowance, and 
half of that amount would be more correct. 
The meteorite is roughly of a spindle-shaped form, with one end 
blunt and the other rather pointed. From the pointed end a piece was 
cut for the investigation. Before removal of the point the specimen 
measured about 3 feet in length, and the diameter now varies between 
20 and 22 inches. There are no faces, such as occur on the Cran- 
boume No. 2, which could be attributed to fracturing. When first 
seen by the writer in 1893 the meteorite retained none of its original 
surface, it being completely covered with an oxidized crust, which, 
as already mentioned, had scaled away to a very considerable 
extent. A triangular face measuring about 20 cm. along each side 
was formed by chiselling when the specimen was first brought to 
the Museum, and this has exposed a thick vein of troilite with 
associated minerals, which will be dealt with under their respective 
names. 
General analysis 
Iron 
Nickel 
Cobalt 
Copper 
Phosphorus 
Residue . . 
100-17 
92-28 
6-24 
0-58 
0-06 
0-17 
0-32 
Amount used • • 0 • 50 
Nickel-Iron —The etched section showed the kamacite plates 
to be generally long and regular, the stoutest of them attaining a 
uniform thickness of about 2 mm. In these respects they differ 
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