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A few well-marked aggregations of black, probably carbonaceous matter, occur mixed in a glassy or half-glassy 

 groundmass, the whole having an approximately circular outline, and reaching in one case 0.5 mm. in diameter. Here 

 again a chondritic form is suggested but can not be positively discerned. The carbonaceous matter is made up of 

 smaller black particles not different from those included in the large chrysolite individuals. 



The bronzite usually occurs in the typical fibrous development. It is colorless to yellow, the latter perhaps being 

 due to iron stain. 



Quite frequently large grains of an isotropic mineral appear which I can not yet refer to any species with which I 

 am familiar. The grains are marked by large size and freedom from inclusions and cracks such as characterize the other 

 silicates of the meteorite. One grain seen has 0.7 sq. mm. of surface, another 0.5 sq. mm., while the remainder are 

 smaller. The outline of the grains is irregular and separated from the remaining constituents. Good cleavage is shown 

 in some of the grains and is apparently cubic, although in one individual the planes meet at angles of 50°. The min eral 

 is colorless inclining to a pink tinge. Relief and index of refraction about like that of chrysolite. I hope to give the 

 mineral further investigation when a larger quantity is available. 



The metallic grains (nickel iron and troilite) have more or less angular outlines and incline toward elongated forms. 

 The nickel iron and troilite are usually intimately joined , although grains of each mineral also occur alone. The troilite 

 readily recognized by its bronze yellow color, is more abundant that the nickel iron. 



A few opaque grains of black color closely associated with the nickel iron and troilite are probably to be referred to 

 chromite. Besides these, translucent grains with the typical red color of chromite are numerous, and one observed 

 has a square outline showing it to be a section either of an octahedral or cubic crystal. The chromite always occurs 

 united to the other opaque minerals. The grains of nickel iron and troilite often inclose grains of silicates of small size. 



On the whole the Ness County meteorite should probably be classed as a crystalline chondrite or Meunier's erxle- 

 benite, although its chondritic nature is somewhat doubtful. 



As is probably generally known, a number of small aerolites quite similar to the one here described have been 

 found in Ness County. The first of these found was briefly described by Henry L. Ward. Aside from this description 

 and mention of the stones in one or two catalogues, no further account of them seems to have been published. Since 

 Preston has suggested, however, that the Ness County stones may belong to the same fall with Kansada, Jerome, Prairie 

 Dog Creek, and Long Island, a knowledge of them is desirable as a ground of investigating the suggestion. What 

 additional facts I have been able to gain regarding the Ness County stones in general have been kindly given me by 

 Mr. Henry L. Ward. In all at least twenty-five small aerolites have been found in Ness County, exclusive of Kansada. 

 In weight they range, so far as Mr. Ward has been able to record them, from 34 to 3,467 grams, the total weight being 

 17,011 grams. This does not represent the entire amount, since of some stones Mr. Ward was unable to abtain exact 

 record, but at least this amount has been found. The majority of these, so far as their place of find has been recorded, 

 have come from the neighborhood of Franklinville, a village about 5 miles south of Ness City. The first one described 

 by Mr. Ward, however, came from a place nearly 20 miles to the east of Franklinville, the exact locality being given 

 by Mr. Ward as sec. 2, T. 20 S., R. 21 W. The village of Wellmanville is not far from this locality and this aerolite may 

 therefore be called the Wellmanville stone. 



The meteorite is distributed; Ward possesses 13.267 grams. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



1. 1899: Ward. A new Kansas meteorite. Amer. Joum. Sci.. 4th ser., vol. 7, p. 233. 



2. 1902: Farrington. Meteorite Studies I. Publ. Field Columbian Mus., Geol. ser., vol. 1, pp. 300-303. 



Newberry County. See Ruffs Mountain. 



NEW CONCORD. 



Muskingum County, Ohio. 



Here also Guernsey County. 



Latitude 40° 2' N., longitude 81° 46' W. 



Stone. Veined intermediate chondrite (Cia) of Brezina; Aumalite (type 37, subtype 1), of Meunier. 



Fell 12.45 p. m., May 1, 1860; described 1860. 



Weight: Over 30 stones, the heaviest weighing 103 lbs. Total weight about 227 kgs. (500 lbs.). 



The first account of this great fall was given by Andrews, Evans, Johnson, and Smith, 1 as 



follows: 



About 15 minutes before 1 o'clock on the 1st day of May, 1860, the people of southeastern Ohio and northwestern 

 Virginia were startled by a loud noise, which was variously attributed to the firing of heavy cannon, to the explosion 

 of steamboat boilers, to an earthquake, and to the explosion of a meteor. In many cases houses were jarred. To 

 persons within dpors the noise generally seemed as if produced by the falling of a heavy soft body upon the chamber 

 floor. Many persons heard a rumbling reverberation which continued for a few seconds. The area over which this 



