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Brezina " gives two cuts of an oriented individual weighing 492 gr. The form is much 

 elongated. 



The meteorite is distributed, Vienna possessing 60,77S gr., Paris 21,740 gr. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



1. 18S5: Kunz. On three masses of meteoric iron from Glorieta Mountain near Canoncito, Santa Fe County, New 



Mexico. Amer. Journ. Sci., 3d ser., vol. 30, pp. 235-23S. 



2. 1885: Eakins. Meteoric iron from New Mexico. Proc. Colorado Sci. Soc, vol. 2, 1885, p. 14. 



3. 1886: Kunz. Furthernotes on the meteoric iron from Glorieta Mountain, New Mexico. Amer. Journ. Sci., 3d 



ser., vol. 32, pp. 311-313. (With 3 plates and analysis by Eakins.) 



4. 1886: Brezina. Neue Meteoriten I. Ann. K. K. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, Bd. 1, p. 13, and Bd. 2, pp. 25-26. 



5. 1S87: Brezina. Neue Meteoriten Ilia. Verhandl. K. K. Geol. Reichsanst., 1887, p. 288. 



6. 1891: Cohen and Weinschenk. Meteoreisen-Studien. Ann. K. K. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, Bd. 6, pp. 131, 



132, 155-158 (analysis), 162, 164, 165. 



7. 1892: Cohen. Meteoreisen-Studien II. Idem, Bd. 7, pp. 143-145 (analysis), 158, 159, 160, 161. 



8. 1893: Brezina. Ueber neuere Meteoriten (Nurnberg), p. 164. 



9. 1893: Meunier. ReVision des fers me'teoriques, pp. 52 and 59. 



10. 1894: Cohen. Meteoritenkunde, pp. 101, 108, 116, 124, 129, and 194. 



11. 1895: Brezina. Wiener Sammlung, pp. 280-282. 



12. 1895: Cohen. Meteoreisen-Studien IV. Ann. K. K. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, Bd. 10, pp. 82, 85, 86, 90, 91, 92, 



and 93. 



13. 1897: Wulfing. Die Meteoriten in Sammlungen, pp. 127-128. 



14. 1905: Brezina. Oesterreichs Illustrirte Zeitung, Heft 34, pp. 842-843. 



GRAND RAPIDS. 



Kent County, Michigan. 



Here also Walker township. 



Latitude 42° 58' N., longitude 85° 41' W. 



Iron. Fine octahedrite (Of) of Brezina. 



Found 1883; described 1884. 



Weight, 51.5 kgs. (114 lbs.). 



The first account of this meteorite was by I. R. Eastman * as follows: 



While staying over Sunday in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in September, 1883, I saw in a local newspaper 

 a reference to a strange, heavy metallic mass which was to be seen in the store of Mr. C. G. Pulcher. Early Monday 

 morning I found the store and immediately recognized the meteoric character of the mass. 



It was roughly pear-shaped, 14 inches long, and 9.6 inches in diameter at the thickest part, and weighed 114 pounds. 

 It was discovered about May 15, 1S83, by Michael Clancy, a contractor, while making an excavation for building pur- 

 poses on land belonging to the Catholic Church in Grand Rapids. It was found about 3 feet below the natural level of the 

 ground and wedged between two large bowlders, and was removed with considerable difficulty. The finder feeling 

 certain that he had secured a valuable prize kept his secret for some weeks and expended much time and labor with 

 hammer and cold chisel in the attempt to cut off the smaller end. He succeeded, however, only in mutilating the 

 unusually fine specimen by cutting a groove about three-sixteenths of an inch deep quite around the mass and 6 inches 

 from the smaller end. 



Mr. Pulcher could not then be induced to part with the mass, but I finally secured a few grains in weight from the 

 bur left by the chisel, from which Mr. F. W. Taylor of the Smithsonian Institution made a preliminary analysis of a 

 specimen weighing 24 grains with the following result: 



Fe Ni Co Insoluble residue 



94. 543 3. 815 0. 396 0. 118 =98. 872 



The fragment was somewhat oxidized, which accounts in part for the shortage. The entire specimen is now in the 

 Smithsonian Institution for examination and analysis. 



Riggs 2 reported a further analysis as follows : 



In a recent number of this journal I. R. Eastman describes a meteorite found in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A 

 preliminary analysis was made at the time, but of a very inadequate amount of the oxidized material, taken from the 

 surface. Since then the meteorite has come into the keeping of the U. S . National Museum and a more complete analysis 

 gives the following results: 



Fe Ni Cu Mg P S C(combined) Graphite 



88.71 10.69 0.07 0.02 0.26 0.03 0.06 0.07 =99.91 



