VICTORIAN METEORITES, WITH NOTES ON OBSIDIANITES. 
Record of Fragments taken from the Cranbourne 
Meteorites, including the “ Yarra Yarra ” Fragments. 
Tlie following makes no claim to be an accurate record of the 
fragments of the Cranbourne meteorites and their present locations. 
The preparation of such a record is impossible, not only because 
the actual number of fragments is unknown, but also on account of 
changes in the ownership of some specimens and the division of 
others. The present locations of the principal masses are given under 
the description of each meteorite. 
Cranbourne No. 1 — 
(a) Horse-shoe and lump exhibited at the Melbourne Exhi- 
bition, 1854 (38) ; same horse-shoe and (?) same lump 
said to be about the size of a fist, exhibited by Cameron 
at conference on construction of railway line. Both 
passed into the possession of Fitzgibbon, and given by 
him to Sir Henry Barkly. A small portion, about 
the size of a crown piece, was sent to the Emperor 
of Austria by Mueller. In November, 1861, Sir 
Henry Barkly presented to the K. K. Hofmuseums, 
Vienna (33, p. 66), a piece weighing 37 ozs. 164 grs., 
which is probably the fist-sized piece. This was sliced 
by the K. K. Hofmuseums, and one face was etched 
and figured by Haidinger (33). Brezina (5, p. 302) 
gives the combined weight of the two pieces in the 
Hofmuseums as 1,100 grams, and the weight of the 
larger piece of the two as 938 grams. 
(b) A smaller horse-shoe in the possession of Fitzgibbon, and 
lost by him. 
(c) A lump from which the horse-shoes were cut, recovered 
by Bruce from the blacksmith at Cranbourne, and 
mven by him to Geo. Foord. Weight of this specimen 
given as 35 lbs. 9 ozs. 121 grs. Foord had it cut in 
two. The larger piece was etched and exhibited in 
the Melbourne Exhibition of 1861 (39, p. 249), and 
afterwards at the London Exhibition, 1862 (37). It 
then passed to A. T. Abel, and probably from him to 
Jas Gregory, mineral dealer, of London, who, if this 
was the case, had it cut up. Two pieces are men- 
tioned in Gregory’s catalogue, 1889 (27), one of which 
has a weight of 457 grams, is etched, and _ was 
in his private collection. The other piece weighed 
443 grams. Foord’s smaller piece was almost 
certainly in his possession at the time of his death, 
in Melbourne, in 1898, but its whereabouts since is 
not known. 
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