VICTORIAN METEORITES, WITH NOTES ON OBSIDIANITES. 
pervade all the nickel-iron, and seem to constitute nearly 
cent, of its mass. The nickel-iron was found to contain — 
per 
Prisms (rliabdite) 
Nickel 
Cobalt 
Copper 
Silicon 
•932 
•651 
•501 
■0156 
■172 
This analysis was evidently worked out to 100 by Cohen (11, 
p. 1050), after deducting the rhabdite, for comparison with a 
general analysis of the Beaconsfield. The following are his 
figures ; — 
Iron (diff.) . . . . . . . . [91 ’74] 
Nickel . . . . . . • • 7 '74 
Cobalt .. .. .. •• 0‘50 
Copper . . . . . • • • 0 ' 02 
Some of the nickel-iron plates were analyzed by Flight for 
constituents other than iron, but, as the results do not appear to be 
of any special interest or significance, they are not quoted. 
Under the name of edmondsonite, Flight describes taenite as 
occurring in thin, paper-like pliant plates of a pure white colour 
lying on the faces of the tetrahedra of nickel-iron, and between the 
large plates of the crystals of nickel-iron. 
They contained 0"688 per cent, of phosphorus. 
Analysis of taenite : — 
Iron 
Nickel 
70-138 
29-744 
Flight states that the name “ meteorin ” was^ proposed bv 
Zimmerman [correctly Abel; Zimmerman (60, p. 557) only com- 
municated the information] for what was evidently the same sub- 
stance in the Cranbourne No. 2 meteorite. But as Flight had 
made out its composition for the first time, he proposed to call it 
edmondsonite, in memory of the late George Edmondson, the head 
master of Queenwood College, Hampshire. 
In a section of this meteorite from the K. Iv. Hofmuseums, 
Vienna used for comparison with a section of the Beaconsfield, free 
from cohenite, Cohen (11, p. 1049) mentions that in both sections the 
kamacite plates are stout, and of irregular wavy outlines, and show 
“file marks ” plentifully. In both, also, the taenite only stands out 
slightly on the etched face, and plessite, rich in “ combs,” is present 
in very small quantity. . , , . . . , 
Troilite— This mineral occurs m many nodules lying here and 
there amongst the plates and crystals of nickel-iron, always in 
rounded masses, only very occasionally an ill-defined cleavage plane 
being met with. They vary in sizes from half-an-inch to more than 
2 inches in length, are usually covered with a thin layer of graphite, 
sometimes with daubreelite surrounding them. 
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