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Cubic Crystals of Graphitic Carbon

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IN the analysis of a meteoric iron found in 1884 in the sub-district of Youndegin, Western Australia, and of which two of the four fragments have been generously presented to the British Museum by the Rev. Charles G. Nicolay, Curator of the Geological Museum, Fremantle, I have obtained some crystals, a description of which may be of interest to the students of carbon.

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  1. Regarding the nature of the pollinia, and their mode of removal in Plenrothallis, vide Darwin, loc. cit. p. 166.

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FLETCHER, L. Cubic Crystals of Graphitic Carbon . Nature 36, 304–305 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036304a0

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