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of the mass of iron found in the Sivier County, Tennessee, in 1840. 
Three characteristic specimens, one containing much graphite, of the 
iron from Arva, in Hungary, discovered in 1843. — A polished piece 
of the iron found in the Otsego County, New York, in 1845 — Mass of 
iron from Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky, found in the same 
year. — A considerable portion of the mass of iron, weighing 280 
pounds, found in the same year at Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. 
— -A piece of the rare meteoric iron which fell at. Braunau, in Bohemia, 
on the 14th of July, 1847.— A portion of that found in the same year 
near Lake Lrnsgen, in Brandenburg. — Also the greater portion of the 
mass discovered at the close of the same year near Murfreesboro’, 
Rutherford County, Tennessee. 
To these are added the following specimens of iron, the origin of 
which is still problematical, viz., that from La Buiche, Department of 
the Allier, called pseudo- volcanic steel ; that of Gross Kamsdorf, 
Saxony ; that of Collina di Brianza, in the Milanese ; also, the iron 
discovered at Magdeburg, and which, according to Stromeyer’s analysis, 
contains (besides nickel and cobalt) copper, molybdenum, and arsenic ; 
and a specimen detached from the large mass of iron found and still 
preserved at Aix-la- Chapelle. 
Of meteoric stones or meteorites (classed with native iron, because 
they all contain this metal, generally alloyed with nickel) the following 
are placed in chronological order : — A large fragment of the stone 
which fell at Ensisheim, in Alsace, Nov. 7th, 1492, when Emperor 
Maximilian, then king of the Romans, was on the point of engaging 
wdth the French army; this mass, which weighed 270 pounds, was 
preserved in the cathedral of Ensisheim till the beginning of the 
French revolution, when it was conveyed to the public library of Col- 
mar. — Meteoric stone which fell at Reichstadt in Bohemia, June 22nd, 
1723. — One of the stones which fell, July 3rd, 1753, at Plan, in 
the circle of Bechin, Bohemia, and which contain a great proportion 
of attractable iron. — Portion of a stone which fell at Maurkirchen in 
Bavaria, Nov. 20th, 1768. — A meteorite which fell at Bobric, govern- 
ment of Charkow, Ucraine, Oct. 1st, 1787. — Specimens of those that 
were seen to fall at Barbotan, at Roquefort, and at Juliac, in the 
Landes of Gascony, July 24th, 1790 One of a dozen stones, of vari- 
ous weights and dimensions, that fell at Sienna, in Tuscany, June 16th, 
1794. — The meteoric stone, weighing 56 pounds, which fell near Wold 
Cottage, in the parish of Thwing, East Riding, Yorkshire, Dec. 13th, 
]795. — Fragment of a stone of 20 pounds, which fell in the commune 
of Sales, near Villefranclie, in the department of the Rhone, March 
12th, 1 798. r— Specimens of stones fallen near the city of Benares, in 
the East Indies, Dec. 19th, 1798 ; presented by Sir Joseph Banks and 
W. Marsden, Esq. — Entire and broken specimens of the meteoric stones^ 
of which a shower was seen to descend at Aigle, in the department of 
the Orne, April 26th, 1803. — Meteorite which fell at Possil, near Glas- 
gow, April 5th, 1804. — Fragment of that which fell, June 27th, 1807, 
near Timochin, Smolensk, Russia Fragment of one of those that were 
seen to fall at Weston, in Connecticut, Dec. 14th, 1807. — Fragment 
of one of several meteorites that fell, April 19th, 1808, at Casignano, 
near Borgo St. Domino, in the Duchy of Parma. — Two of the meteorites 
with shining black surfaces, fallen, May 22nd, 1808, at Stannern, in 
