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gallery.] natural history. (Minerals.) 
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—Fragment of the largest of those 
that fell at Juvenas, Dep. of the Aardeche, 15th of June, 1821.—Another 
being one of those that descended at Jonsac, in the Dep. of the Lower 
Charente, the 13th of June, 1819.—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.—Loose grains of that of Chesterfield, Virginia, 
June 4th, 1828.—A meteorite, weighing about four pounds, wdiich fell 
at the village of Akburpoor, in the district of Saharanpore, April 18th, 
1838 ; presented by Major Cautley, Bengal Artillery.—A fragment de¬ 
tached from one of the three stones which, on June 6th, 1838, simulta¬ 
neously 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. Charles- 
worth, Esq_A fragment of that, which fell in 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 of which an account will be given by 
Professor Shepard. 
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 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, w ire-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 mo¬ 
dified rhombic dodecahedrons, globular, &c. : to which are added some 
figures and ornaments moulded and modelled in amalgam, by the miners 
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