Show In Int resting Meteorite A meteorite containing organic matter has recently been examined J by M Stanl hs Munier the well known French authority on these foreign visitors our pLanet The stone fell atMighel In Russia on the Oth Juneljstand was 1 grn Kh black color speckled with white crystals after the likeness of a starling brca The surface was wrinkled the substance friable and capable staining the fingers I was found on analysis to consist chi fly of sIHcatu of magnesium and Iron with crystals of other mlnerali Interspersed But I contained con-tained about five per cent of orzanlc carbOB which burned brilliantly In a current of dry oxygen gas Aright A-right yellow resin was extracted from it by means of alcohol The occurrence oc-currence oi organic carbon In meteorites mete-orites has bccu observed before but thu source of tho substances I purely conjectural Are meteorites in general but the debris of the playedout planets the rublish of the universe And I this latest of them really the mossgrown fragment frag-ment of another world such as a rt president the British Association Associ-ation Imagined capable of bringing to the esrili the original sreds of life American Rcgiitcr |