VICTORIAN METEORITES, WITH NOTES ON OBSIDIANITES. 
can be seen of tlie exudation of chloride of iron, for the greater part 
on the sides and end, and not at all within the original surface area, 
although no scaling has been noticed since it has been under obser- 
vation in the Museum by those now living, some 25 years or more. 
The dimensions taken by Neumayer, viz., 37 inches by 32 inches 
by 21 inches, previously mentioned, evidently represent the maximum 
diameters in three directions, the two smaller measurements being 
taken from edge to edge. Neumayer refers to the direction of the 
greatest diameter as from N.E. to N.W., but on the sketch in the 
plate accompanying the report it is given as from “ N. 0. to S.W.” 
Haidinger (32, p. 466) gives some further measurements with 
outline sketches of the specimen indicating the directions in which 
the measurements were made. 
The material used for the present examination was part of the 
piece mentioned previously as having been cut off to afford a face 
for showing the internal structure of the specimen. The surface 
yielded by the part examined measured about 9 cm. by 6 cm. 
General ■ Analysis — 
Iron . . . . . . 92' 
Nickel 
Cobalt 
Copper 
Phosphorus 
Sulphur 
•34 
•38 
•75 
•02 
•19 
•18 
99-86 
Nickel-irons. — The section examined consists almost entirely 
of kamacite. Ihe plates are for the most part very thick and short 
and frequently of nearly equal length and breadth, so that the 
disintegrated material is of a coarse granular character. They are 
also generally of irregular or wavy outline, and often rounded at 
the ends. In these respects they resemble the kamacite plates of 
the Cranbourne No. 1, and some of the Beaconsfield described by 
Cohen (II). In places of the section of the Cranbourne No. 2 the 
plates and their arrangement are more regular, and they have a 
uniform width of about 2 mm. 
1 he plessite occurs in small quantity, sparsely scattered, and the 
taenite in very thm plates between the kamacite. 
The taenite obtained from the disintegrated material is tarnished 
pale yellow, and is decidedly scarce, having apparently been largely 
removed by decomposition, which has acted most intensely ahum 
th ® n J w! U;t , Um ° , the l )lates of tae) dte and kamacite. Cohen (if 
p. 1039) observed m the case of the Beaconsfield that the iron chloride 
seemed to be more active in its effect upon taenite than dilute 
hydrochloric acid, and tins might account for the scarcity of taenite 
in the detritus, whilst treatment of the fresh iron with dilute 
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