The object of this communication was to exhibit to the Society a mineral which had been publicly described as a meteoric stone, picked up by a witness of its fall. The author had been induced, by the published account of the alleged fall of the stone, to make inquiry concerning it, and had ascertained that no one had witnessed its descent; and that the only evidence in favour of its being a meteorite was the fact of its having been noticed for the first time in a garden-path, the morning after a thunder-storm.