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1753, at Plaun, in the circle of Bechin, Bohemia, and which contain a 
great proportion of attractable iron ;—specimens of those that were seen 
to fall at Barbotan, at Roquefort, and at Juliac, in the Landes of Gas¬ 
cony, July 24th, 1790 ;—one of a dozen of stones of various weights 
and dimensions that fell at Sienna, in Tuscany, Jan. 16th, 1794; 
—the meteoric stone, weighing 56 pounds, which fell near Wold 
Cottage, in Yorkshire, Dec. 13th, 1795;—fragment of a 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;—- 
entire and broken specimens 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 27, 1807 ;—fragment of one of 
those that were seen to fall at Weston, in Connecticut, Dec. 14th, 
1807;—two meteoric stones with shining black surfaces, fallen May 22d, 
1808, at Stannern, in Moravia ;—two fragments of the Tipperary me¬ 
teorite which fell in August, 1810: it contains quartz globules of a 
green colour, owing to oxide of nickel;—a fragment of that of Ber- 
languiilas, in Catalonia, July 8th, 1811 ;—a fragment of one, weighing 
66 pounds, which fell August 5th, 1812, near Chantonnay, in the Ven¬ 
dee ;—fragment 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, 1821a portion 
of the meteorite which descended at Nanjenoy in Maryland, February 
10th, 1825;—a small fragment of the Tenessee meteorite, May 9th, 
1827 ;—three of those that were seen to fall, October 13th, 1838, at 
Old Bokkeveld, at the Cape of Good Hope; and a fragment of that 
which fell in Missouri, February 13th, 1839; (the former described in 
the Philosophical Transactions, the latter in the American Journal of 
Science for 1839;—a portion of one that fell, June 12th, 1841, at 
Triguerre, Canton of Chateau- Renard, department of the Loire. 
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 by Mr. Hearne, 
and described by him in his journal, and that from the mountains sepa¬ 
rating the Quananger and Alten Fiords in the north of Norway, -rNative 
lead , in lava : to which is added a medal cast in the same lead which was 
ejected by Vesuvius in 1631 —Native bismuth . massive, disseminated, 
and dendritic, in jasper, &c. : to which are added, specimens exhibiting 
the artificial crystallization of the same, produced by the sudden cooling 
of the melted metal.—In this case is also placed a specimen of arti¬ 
ficially produced titanium , crystallized in cubes, from the smelting 
furnace of the great iron works at Merthyr Tydvil in Wales. 
Case 2. Native silver : among its varieties may be particularized 
those exhibiting the various forms in which it most frequently occurs, 
such as tooth-shaped, moss-like, wire-shaped, dendritical, branched, den¬ 
ticular, massive, &c., particularly from Kongsberg and the Hartz, (the 
latter presented by His Majesty George IV.,) many of which are aggre¬ 
gations of minute crystals .—Native mercury , and hydrarguret of silver 
or native amalgam ; the former chiefly as globules, disseminated in cin¬ 
nabar, sparry limestone, &c. ; the latter crystallized in perfect and 
