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I HAVE recently read M. G. Tschermak's most Interesting memoir, “Die Bildung der Metebriten und der Vulcanismus.“2 I am not competent to offer any opinion on the miner-alogical questions involved in his discussion, but the numerous arguments he has adduced appear to me to justify his conclusion that “the meteorites have had a volcanic source on some celestial body.” These arguments are briefly as follows:—
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"Sitzungsberichte der mathematisch-natunwissohaftlichen Classe der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften", Wien, 1875. Band lxxi., Abtheilung 2, pp. 661–674.
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BALL, R. Speculations on the Source of Meteorites 1 . Nature 19, 493–495 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019493a0
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