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[183]. G. F. Kunz and O. W. Huntington, “On the Diamond in the Cañon Diablo Meteoric Iron and on the Hardness of Carborundum,” American Journal of Science, vol. xlvi, December, 1893.

[184]. George F. Kunz, “On Five American Meteorites,” American Journal of Science, vol. xl, Oct., 1890, pp. 312–323.

[185]. Lazarus Fletcher, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., vol. xviii, p. 263; article Meteorites.

[186]. Chladni, op. cit., p. 8.

[187]. Petri Borelli, “Hist. et observ. phys.-med.,” 1676; cited by Chladni, op. cit., p. 20.

[188]. Chladni, op. cit., p. 14; see also Gilbert’s Annalen, vol. xxix, p. 376.

[189]. Chladni, op. cit., p. 19.

[190]. Chladni, op. cit., p. 22.

[191]. See “Nature” for June 23 and July 21, 1910.