II. On a meteoric stone found at Makariwa, near invercargill, New Zealand

Abstract

The specimen described in this memoir was found in the year 1879 in a bed of clay which was cut through in making a railway at In­vercargill, near the southern end of the Middle Island of New Zealand. Originally this meteorite appears to have been about the size of a man’s fist, and to have weighed 4 or 5 lbs., but it was broken up, and only a few small fragments have been preserved. The stone evidently consisted originally of an intimate admixture of metallic matter (nickel iron) and of stony material, but much of the metallic portion has undergone oxidation.