VICTORIAN METEORITES, WITH NOTES ON OBSIDIANITES. 
Analysis :■ 
Iron 
Nickel 
Cobalt 
70-05 
22-35 
0-40 
0-10 
6-93 
0-20 
Copper 
Phosphorus 
Residue 
100-03 
Amount used .. 0-7182 
Specific gravity 7 • 09 
The material used for the above analysis was obtained as a 
residue, together with rhabdite, and probably a little cohenite, 
after dissolving the nickel-iron in dilute hydrochloric acid. The 
rhabdite was removed by mechanical means along with the finer 
part of the schreibersite, but nothing could be done in this way to 
separate any cohenite present, which, however, as the analysis 
shows, must only have been there in insignificant quantity. The 
powder thus prepared was examined microscopically, and, as far 
as could be judged, appeared to be practically free from admixture 
with other substances. Assuming, nevertheless, that the powder 
was not pure, the only possible reason for the amount of phosphoius 
being so low in comparison with the schreibersite of Cranbourne No. 1 
and "the Beaconsfield would be the presence of some particles of 
nickel-iron. But, even if this were the case, the amount could not 
have been nearly sufficient to reduce the percentage of phosphorus 
to about half that given for the meteorites just mentioned, without 
it beino- detected in the examination. Besides this, the amount of 
nickel would have been considerably lower than the determination 
shows As a further proof that such an error ivas unlikely, a 
partial analysis made by Bayly on another portion of the mineral 
gave the following result, which confirmed the previous work 
Nickel .. •• •• 22* 32 
Phosphorus •• 
Rhabdite —As in the case of the Cranbourne No. 1, and Beacons- 
fifid meteorites, rhabdite occurs in very fine prismatic needles. 
T + .mo. nnt annear to be more intimately associated with one 
