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12th, 1798. — 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 Ome, 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 
Moravia; one of them presented by H. I. M. the Emperor of Austria. 
—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 from one of those of Berlanguillas, in Catalonia, 
July 8th, 1811_A fragment of one weighing 66 pounds, which fell, 
August 5th, 1812, near Chantonnay, between Nantes and La Rochelle, 
Department of the Vendee.—Fragment of the meteoric stone which 
fell at Adare, in the county of Limerick, Ireland, September 10th, 
1813.—Fragment of the stone which fell, in March, 1814, in the vicinity 
of Wiburg, in Russian Finland.—Fragment of one of those which fell. 
Sept. 5th, 1814, at Agen, in the Pyrenees.—A portion of the me¬ 
teorite of Chassigny, near Langres, Dep. of the Upper Marne, which 
fell on the 3rd of October, 1815_One of those that descended 
at Jonsac, in the Department of the Lower Charente, the 13th of 
June, 1819.—Fragment of the largest of those that fell at Juvenas, Dep. 
of the Ardeche, 15th of June, 1821.—A portion of the meteorite which 
descended at Nanjenoy in Maryland, February 10th, 1825.—Fragment 
of one of the meteorites which fell, May 9th, 1827, at Drake’s Creek, 
Nashville, Tennessee. — Another of that of Richmond, Chesterfield 
County, Virginia, observed to fall June 4th, 1828.—Another which 
was seen to fall at Aldsworth, 12 miles E. of Cirencester, August 4th, 
1835.—A meteorite, weighing about four pounds, which fell at the 
village of Akburpoor, in the district of Saharanpore, April 18th, 1838; 
presented by Major Cautley, Bengal Artillery.—A fragment detached 
from one of the three stones which, on June 6th, 1838, simultaneously 
fell at three villages, about a mile distant from each other, in the 
valley of Berar (situated Lat. 21° N., Long. 77° 20' E.), in the East 
Indies—Two of those that were seen to fall, October 13th of the 
same year, at Old Bokkeveld, at the Cape of Good Hope; the larger 
presented by Sir John Herschel, Bart., the smaller by E. Charles- 
worth, Esq.—A fragment of that which fell at Little Piney, Missouri, 
February 13th, 1839.—Two large portions of the stone that fell, June 
12th, 1841, at Triguerre, Canton of Chateau-Renard, department of 
the Loire—A large fragment of the remarkable meteoric stone that, fell 
at Bishopville, S. Carolina, in March, 1846, and another of that which 
descended February 25th, 1847, near Marion, in Linn County, State 
of Iowa, North America, and of which an account has been published 
in a late number of Silliman’s American Journal. 
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, 
