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V.—A Chapter in the History of Meteorites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Walter Flight
Walter Flight
Affiliation:
Of the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum; Assistant Examiner in Chemistry, Universityof, London.
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Extract

This celebrated siderolite has recently been sawn into two nearly equal parts, and the occasion presented a fitting opportunity for an exhaustive examination of its constituent minerals, more especially of the olivine forming the chief ingredient. It was accordingly undertaken by von Kokscharow, at the desire of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and his memoir is mainly devoted to a description of the crystallographic characters of the silicate enclosed in the nickel-iron.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 2 , Issue 7 , July 1875 , pp. 311 - 320
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1875

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page 311 note 1 von Kokscharow, N.Bull. I’ Acad. Imp. Sc. St.-Pétersbourg, 1870, xx., No. 3Google Scholar. Memoires I’ Acad. Imp. Sc. St.-Pétersbourg, XV., No. 6 Jahrb. Mineralogie, 1870, 778.—Baumhauer, E. H. yonArchives Neerlandaises, 1871, vi.Google Scholar—von Helmersen, G.Zeitsch. Deutsch. Geol. Gesell. xxv., 347.Google Scholar

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page 313 note 1 It should be mentioned that Rose (Beschr. und Einth. Met., 76) found these canals in great perfection and abundance in the olivine of the meteorite found at Brahin, Minsk, Russia (1810), a siderolite bearing the closest resemblance to the Pallas iron. The mineral occurring in the siderolites of Rittersgrün and Steinbach, which Rose termed olivine, and some of the angles of which he found to accord with those of the olivine of the Pallas and Brahin siderolites, is probably not olivine, but bronzite.

page 314 note 1 It has been found that the enstatite of the Busti meteorite (which see) is slowly ecomposed by hydrochloric acid.

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page 317 note 2 This was probably a fragment of the Charcas meteoric iron which General Bazaine sent to Paris.

page 317 note 3 Burkart gives the following list of localities of meteorites found in the Mexican Republic:—Meteoric Stones. 1). Hacienda de Bocas, N. of San Louis Potosi, fell 1804, November 24th. 2). Cerro Cosina, near Dolores Hidalgo, District of San Miguel in the State Guanajuato, fell 1844, January —, 11 A.M. 3). Hacienda Avilez; near Cuencamè in the State Durango, fell 1855 or 1856.—Meteoric Irons (each locality lies to the north of those following it in the list). 1). The Casas grandes de Malintzin, between Galeana and Corralites, District Bravos, State of Chihuahua. 2). Bonanza, State of Cohahuila. 3). Sierra Blanca, near Huajuquillo (or Jimenez), State of Chihuahua. 4). San Gregorio, State of Chihuahua. 5). Hacienda Concepcion, on the Rio Florido, State of Chihuahua. 6). Hacienda Venagas, probably in the State of Chihuahua. 7). Plain near el Mercado mountain, N. of Durango, State of Durango. 8). Durango (block used as an anvil; this mass has recently been removed to Mexico). 9). San Francisco del Mezquital, State of Durango. 10). Descubridora, at Poblazon, near Catorze, State of San Louis Potosi. 11). Charcas, State of San Louis Potosi. 12). Zacatecas. 13). A Hacienda south (?) of Zacatecas. 14). Xiquipilco, Hocotitlan, Istlahuaca, etc., in the Toluca or Lerma Valley, State of Mexico. 15). Chalco, Valley of Mexico. 16). Misteca Alta, State of Oaxaca. 17). Yanhuitlan, State of Oaxaca. 18). (?) Rincon de Caparosa, near Chilpancingo, on the road to Acapulco.Google Scholar

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page 319 note 1 Mean of three determinations of the specific gravity of the meteoric sulphide.

page 319 note 2 Mean of five determinations of the specific gravity of pyrrhotine,