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On a Meteoric Iron found in 1884 in the Sub-district of Youndegin, Western Australia, and containing Cliftonite, a cubic form of Graphitic Carbon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

L. Fletcher
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This iron was found on January 5th, 1884, by Alfred Eaton, a mounted police constable, when on duty in the sub-district of Youndegin, at a spot distant about 60 chains (three-quarters of a mile) in a north-west direction from the top of Penkarring Rock, and roughly estimated by him as 70 miles east of York, Western Australia; this must be about longitude 117°30', E. of Greenwich, latitude 31°30' S. Only one of four observed fragments having been brought in by Mr. Eaton, the late Captain Smith, Commissioner of the Police at Perth, sent him out to Penkarring with a native assistant with instructions to bring in the other three, at the instance of the Rev. Charles G. Nicolay, Curator of the Geological Museum, Fremantle, to whomthe late Mr. Edward T. Hardman, F.C.S., the Government Geologist, had expressed his belief in the meteoric origin of the iron.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 7 , Issue 34 , July 1887 , pp. 121 - 130
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1887

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page 122 note 1 Amer. Journ. Sc. 1855, Ser. 2, Vol. 19, p. 154.

page 123 note 1 Ibid. p. 161.

page 123 note 2 School of Mines Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 2, Jan. 1886.

page 124 note 1 Original Researches, by Lawrence Smith, 1884, p. 312.

page 125 note 1 Amer. Jour. Sc. 1882, Ser. 3, Vol. 23, p. 316.

page 125 note 2 Select Methods in Chemical Analysis, by Crookes : 2nd edition, p. 617.

page 125 note 3 Ibid. p. 272.

page 127 note 1 Amer. Jour. Sc. 1876, Ser. 3, Vol. 11. p. 388.

page 127 note 1 Pogg. Ann. 1846, Vol. 67, p. 437.

page 128 note 1 Beschreibung und Eintheilung der Meteoriten, 1864, p. 40. Pogg. Ann., 1873, Vol. 148, p. 516.

page 128 note 2 Chemical and physical Geology, 1851, Vol. I. p. 33.