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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 
meteorite which fell in August, 1810: it contains quartz globules of a 
green colour, owing to oxide of nickel;—a fragment of that of Ber- 
languillas, 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, 1821 a portion 
of the meteorite which descended at Nanjenoy in Maryland, February 
10th, 1825;—fragment of the Tenessee meteorite, May 9th, 1827 ; — 
loose grains of that of Chesterfield, Virginia, June 4th, 1828;—a 
meteorite, weighing about four pounds, which fell at the village of 
Akburpoor, in the district of Saharanpore, April 18th, 1838, presented 
by Capt. Cautley, Bengal Artillery;—a fragment detached from one of 
the three stones which, on June 6, 1838, simultaneously fell at three 
villages about a mile distant from each other in the valley of Berar 
(situated Lat. 21° N. Long. 77° 2CK 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. Charlesw 7 orth, Esq.;- a frag¬ 
ment 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);—two large portions of those 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 
separating the Quananger and Alten Fiords in the north of Norway. 
—Native lead , in lava: to which is added a medal cast in lead 
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 w 7 orks 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 Harts (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 mo¬ 
dified rhombic dodecahedrons, globular, &c. : to which are added some 
figures and ornaments moulded and modelled in amalgam, by the miners 
of Mexico.— Native platinum, massive and as grains: rock : ecimens 
of the formation in which it occurs in the Ural, Siberia.— Palladium and 
osm-iridium in a wrought state. 
