VICTORIAN METEORITES, WITH NOTES ON OBSIDIANITES. 
Analyses : — 
I. 
II. 
III. 
IV. 
Mean. 
Insoluble 
0-215 .. 
2-297 . 
— 
— 
— 
Iron 
. . 
62-150 . 
. 63-613 . 
— 
63-613 
Nickel . . 
— 
0-446 . 
— 
— 
0-446 
Copper . . 
— 
0-079 . 
— 
— 
0-079 
Sulphur 
36-543 .. 
— 
. 36-207 . 
. 36-250 .. 
36-333 
Chlorine . . 
— 
0-130 . 
— 
— 
0-130 
DaubrBelite. — Flight mentions daubreelite in connexion with 
troilite, which, as we have just seen, is stated to be sometimes 
covered witli graphite and surrounded by daubreelite. Smith 
(49) also notes the presence of daubreelite in the Cranbournc No. 1, 
associated with troilite, but the quantity was less than in the other 
two meteorites examined at the time. 
Schreibersite. — After treatment of the nickel-iron with hydro- 
chloric acid until action ceased, Flight obtained schreibersite as 
coarse insoluble particles. They were very brittle, very magnetic, 
and dissolved readily in strong nitric acid. 
Analyses : — 
I. II. Mean. 
Iron .. 56-245 .. 55-990 .. 56 117 
Nickel .. 29-176 .. — .. 29'176 
Phosphorus 13-505 .. — .. 13 '505 
Rhabdite. — This mineral was mentioned as occurring in ap- 
parently square prisms in the insoluble residue of the nickel-iron, 
and as forming nearly 1 per cent, of the latter. The prisms are 
strongly magnetic, exceedingly brittle, and rarely, if ever, of their 
normal length. 
Analyses : — 
I. II. III. Mean. 
Iron .. 49-715 .. — .. 48‘955 .. 49'335 
Nickel .. 36-666 .. 39*519 .. 38-540 .. 38‘242 
Phosphorus [13 -619] .. 12-586 .. 12 -645 .. 12-950 
Specific gravity, 6 '326 — 6 '78. 
These analyses are given as corrected by Cohen (9) and Dana 
(16, p. 31), according to whom Flight, in his paper, had transposed 
the nickel and iron. 
Undetermined Iron-nickel Phosphides. — Search was made for 
crystals from which the schreibersite powder may have been derived, 
and occasionally, but rarely, larger bodies were found, which, when 
broken up, might have formed this powder. A large brass-coloured 
oblique crystal was met with, which readily cleaved across the base. 
It was only slightly acted upon by hydrochloric or nitric acid, but 
on long-continued boiling both acids dissolved it slowly. In aqua 
regia it dissolved rapidly. When a fragment was heated it quickly 
became of a dark-brown colour. 
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