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stone of 20 pounds, which fell in the commune 
of Sales, near Villefranche, in the department 
of the Rhone, March 12th, 1798;—specimens 
of stones fallen near the city of Benares, in the 
East Indies, Dec. 19th, 1798 ; an entire and a 
broken specimen of the meteoric stones of which 
a shower descended at Aigle, in the department 
of the Orne, April 26th, 1803;—fragment of 
that of Smolensk, June 27th, 1807 ;—fragment 
of one of those that were seen to fall at Weston, 
in Connecticut, Dec. 14th, 1807;—two me¬ 
teoric stones with shining black surfaces fallen 
May 22d, 1808, at Stannern, in Moravia:— 
two fragments of the Tipperary meteorite which 
fell in August, 1810: it contains quartz globules 
of a green colour, owing to oxide of nickel;— 
a fragment of that of Berlanguillas, in Cata¬ 
lonia, July 8th, 1811;—a fragment of one, 
weighing 66 pounds, which fell August 5th, 
1812, near Chantonnay, in the Vendee ;—-frag¬ 
ment of the meteoric stone which fell at Adare, 
in the county of Limerick, Ireland, in 1813 ;— 
fragment of one of those which fell Sept. 5th, 
1814, at Agen, in the Pyrenees, and another of 
that which descended at Juvenas (Ardeche), on 
June 15th, 1821. 
Among the specimens of native copper^ 
(which presents a great variety of forms besides 
the crystallized, such as dendritic, filiform, &c.) 
may be specified the mass from Hudson’s Bay, 
found 
LONG 
GALLERY. 
