* Astronomy

This most interesting pallasite is in the mineral collection of the Lyceo, at the small city of Copiapo, Chili. We first saw it: there in 1889; a huge, dirty mass on the 1-loor under a table. My efforts to obtain a specimen piece by exchange, were met by the remark that it would require a year of correspondence with the authorities at Santiago. In late years there has been a change in the administration of the Lyceum. It now possesses, as an important adjunct, a School of Mines (Escuela de Minas), of which the able director is Señor Casimiro Domeyko, son of the well-known Ilgnacio Domeyko, geologist and naturalist, celebrated in the scientific annals of Chili during the middle half of the last century. The meteorite is now mounted on a stand. and adorns a central part of the fine Museum. Its label records that it came from Imalaes (sic) 12 leagues southwest from Taltal, Department of Taltal, Province of Atacama. Its weight is given as 95 kilograms. It measured about 16 x 10 x 8 inches, and appeared to be an entire boloid, with the exception of a few corners which had been cut from one side by Professor Dome in the effort to obtain a polished surface.
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