Chapter I: Siderites (1)

or Meteoric Irons

(_consisting chiefly of nickeliferous iron, and enclosing
schreibersite, troilite, graphite, &c._).

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A. FALL RECORDED.

[Arranged chronologically.]

+----+------+------------------------------+-------------------+---------+ |No. |Pane. | Name of Meteorite and | Date of Fall. | Weight | | | | Place of Fall. | |in grams.| +----+------+------------------------------+-------------------+---------+ | 1 | 1c |AGRAM (Hraschina), Croatia, |May 26, 1751. | 282 | | | |Austria. | | | | | | | | | | 2 | 1c |CHARLOTTE, Dickson County, |July 31, or} 1835. | 77 | | | |Tennessee, U.S.A. |Aug. 1, } | | | | | | | | | 3 |1c, 4l|BRAUNAU (Hauptmannsdorf), |July 14, 1847. | 554 | | | |Bohemia. | | | | | | | | | | 4 |1c, 4l|VICTORIA WEST, Cape Colony, | Fell in 1862. | 153 | | | |South Africa. | | | | | | | | | | 5 |1c, 4h|NEDAGOLLA, Mirangi, |Jan. 23, 1870. | 4,280 | | | |Vizagapatam, Madras, India. | | | | | | | | | | 6 | 1c |ROWTON, near Wellington, |April 20, 1876. | 3,109 | | | |Shropshire. | | | | | | | | | | 7 | 1c |MAZAPIL, Zacatecas, Mexico. |Nov. 27, 1885. | 14 | | | | | | | | 8 | 1c |CABIN CREEK, Johnson County, |March 27, 1886. | 5 | | | |Arkansas, U.S.A. | | | | | | | | | | 9 | 1c |N'GOUREYMA, Djenne, Massina, |June 15, 1900. | 871 | | | |North-West Africa. | | | +----+------+------------------------------+-------------------+---------+

B. FALL NOT RECORDED.

[Arranged topographically.]