VICTORIAN METEORITES, WITH NOTES ON OBSIDIANITES. 
The white grains of the Cranbourne No. 2 also suggested an origin 
such as that advanced by Cohen. 
Small splinters of quartz were observed in the residue of the 
nodule in which the hydrocarbon and sulphur occurred, and which 
were apparently similar to the particles seen by Cohen (11, p- 1048) 
in a section of stilpnosiderite formed by the decomposition of a 
troilite nodule in the Beaconsfield meteorite. 
CRANBOURNE NO. 3 METEORITE. 
Class. — Siderite — Broad Octahedrite. 
Weight . — About 15 lbs. 
Locality . — About half-a-mile from the Cranbourne No. 1 
meteorite, (?) section 39, parish of Sherwood, county of 
Mornington. 
Date of Discovery . — Between 1854 and 1860. 
Date first Recorded. — 1860. 
Collection . — Not known. 
Reference. — 19, p. viii. 
All that is known of this piece of meteoric iron has already been 
mentioned under the history of the Cranbourne meteorites, and the 
information given there contains no details as to its structure or 
composition. That it was of a similar nature to the other Cran- 
bourne meteorites may with safety be taken for granted, lor it has 
evidently passed as portion of one of them. There is but little 
doubt, also, that its origin was intimately associated with theirs, 
if, indeed, it is not a fragment of the Cranbourne No. 1, thrown oh 
in the descent of that meteorite. The record of its independent 
occurrence is evidently generally unknown. Since it left the 
possession of Sir Henry Barkly it has probably been cut up, and, 
likely enough, the pieces have been assumed to be artificial 
derivatives from the Cranbourne No. 1. 
BEACONSFIELD METEORITE. 
Class. — Siderite — Broad Octahedrite. 
Weight . — 165 lbs. 
Locality . — About 2 miles east of Beaconsfield railway station, 
(Lat. 38° 31' S., Long. 145° 30' E.), Parish of Pakenham, 
County of Mornington. 
Date of Discovery . — About 1876. 
Date of First Record.— 1897. 
Collection. — Krantz, mineral dealer, Bonn, Germany. Specimen 
n0t S«:"i 55), 6 (p. 227), 11, 12, 13, 15, 18 (p. 86), 20. 
51 (pp. 74. 76), 57 (pp. 258, 261, 267, 268, 270, 272), 58 (pp. 4, 
7i pl a te X fig. 9). 
’ p ro fessor E. Cohen (11) who described this meteorite, says 
that it was found in a cutting about 3 km east of the Beacons- 
field railway station, in the Parish of Berwick, during tie 
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