VICTORIAN METEORITES, WITH NOTES ON OBSIDIANITES. 
Analyses : — 
I. II. Mean. 
Iron .. 69-251 .. 69-843 .. 69 '547 
Nickel . . (Both analyses lost) [14-410] 
Phosphorus 15-420 .. 16 ■ 666 .. 16*043 
Another crystal found in the debris of the meteorite consisted 
apparently of a square prism, which, while the sides were bright and 
metallic, had a square centre of a dull almost black colour. It 
very readily broke across the prism. A figure is given by Flight of 
the broken prism. 
An analysis yielded the result : — 
Iron 67-480 
Nickel 20-318 
Phosphorus .. .. .. 12 "317 
Lawrencite. — -Mention has been made of drops of iron chloride 
exuding from parts of the meteorite, and that fragments of nickel-iron 
yielded hydrochloric acid when subjected to the action of hydrogen; 
but Flight does not appear to have investigated this mineral 
constituent, which has been such an active agent in the disinteg- 
ration of the meteorite. It is interesting to note in connexion with 
the presence of chloride of iron that Foord (24, p. 425) thought it 
was probably not an original constituent of the meteorite, but the 
result of the saltness of the soil into which the meteorite bad fallen , 
or to the latter having originally fallen into the sea or a salt lagoon, 
from which alterations of levels had since raised it. The kind of 
action which sea-water constitutents are thus supposed to have 
exerted upon it is, he says, exactly the same as what is taking place 
with cast-iron pipes, gas pipes for example, which happen to be 
buried in soil more or less of a salt character. After such influence 
they sweat out chloride of iron on exposure just in the same way. 
Graphite — Besides forming an envelope to the troilite nodules, 
graphite occurs occasionally as nodules; sometimes as nodules 
enclosing troilite, like the one already referred to ; and sometimes 
in large sheet-like masses, in one case about 4 inches in length and 
2 inches wide. A specimen was carefully dried and powdered and 
burnt in a current of oxygen, with the following result - 
Carbon .. ^ 
Hydrogen .. •• •• ** 
Residue (iron, &c.) .. •• • • 
Hydrocarbon and Sulphur.— J. Lawrence Smith (48, pp. 394- 
oqk . KO DD 421-423), found a substance of uncertain composition 
in a graphite nodule from this meteorite, which he had previously 
observed in the iron from Sevier County, Tennessee, and to which 
he had given the name celestialite* It was first called attention 
to by Professor Wohler, when examining the Kaba metconte, and 
* Compt. Rond. 1875, LXXXI., pp. 1055-1050. 
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