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7. 1843: Partsch. Meteoriten, pp. 111-112. 



8. 1846: Silliman and Hunt. On the meteoric iron of Texas and Loekport. Amer. Journ. Sci., 2d ser., vol. 2, pp. 



370-374. (Analysis and illustration of etched plate.) 



9. 1863: Rose. Meteoriten, pp. 26, 57, 64, and 153. 



10. 1875: Wright. Spectroscopic examination of gases from meteoric iron. Amer. Journ. Sci., 3d ser., vol. 9, p. 



296. 



11. 1876: Wright. On the gases contained in meteorites. Amer. Journ. Sci., 3d ser., vol. 11, p. 257. 



12. 1885: Brezina. Wiener Sammlung, pp. 210 and 233. 



13. 1893: Meunier. Revision des fers rn^teoriques, pp. 52 and 54. 



14. 1903: Farrington. Catalogue of the Collection of Meteorites: Publ. Field Columbian Mus., Geol. ser., vol. 2, 



p. 93. 



Red River, 1875. See Wichita County. 



RED WILLOW COUNTY. 



Nebraska. 



Latitude 40° 22' N., longitude 100° 30' W. 



Iron. Medium octahedrite (Om) of Brezina. 



Found later than 1898. 



Weight, 2.77 kgs. (6.13 lbs.). 



This iron is described by Barbour ' as found in Red Willow County, Nebraska, later than 

 the York County specimen. Barbour gives two figures showing the shape, which is somewhat 

 elongated and polygonal. One face is said to have been severely pounded with a hammer. 

 Etching brings out indistinct figures which are also illustrated by Barbour. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



1. 1903: Barbour. Report Nebraska Geol. Survey, vol. 1, p. 184. (Cut of mass and figures.) 



REED CITY. 



Osceola County, Michigan. 



Latitude 43° 52' N., longitude 85° 32' W. 



Iron. Coarse octahedrite (Og) of Brezina. 



Found, 1895. 



Weight, 19.8 kgs. (43 lbs.). 



This meteorite was described by Preston, 1 as follows: 



For the early history of this meteorite I am indebted to Prof. Walter B. Barrows, of the Michigan State Agricul- 

 tural College, and a clipping written by Professor Barrows from the Michigan Agricultural College Record, published 

 by the same institution. 



This meteorite, according to Professor Barrows' statement, was found by Mr. Ernest Ruppert, a small farmer and 

 junk dealer, on his farm in Osceola County, near Reed City, Michigan, while plowing in Spetember, 1895. 



The meteorite was later displayed in a hotel window in Reed City, where Professor Barrows saw it in December, 

 1898, and was told there had been a dispute as to the origin of the specimen, some claiming that it was a meteor from 

 the skies, others that it was a lump of ordinary iron. Professor Barrows saw at a glance from its general character that 

 it was a genuine meteorite, and at that time made an unsuccessful effort to obtain it for the college museum. Other 

 attempts were equally unsuccessful until recently, when the iron was purchased by the college. 



In January of this year Prof. Henry A. Ward, of Chicago, visited Professor Barrows to see if he could make arrange- 

 ments to obtain a portion of the mass for the Ward-Coonley Collection of Meteorites now on deposit in the American 

 Museum of Natural History in New York. In consequence of this visit the mass was sent to Rochester, New York, 

 for slicing. 



The meteorite on reaching Rochester, before cutting, was a semicircular or ham-shaped mass, 10 by 21 by 26.5 cm. 

 in its greatest diameters, of which one side is a comparatively smooth convex surface, showing no distinct pittings. 

 The opposite side is much more irregular in form, slightly concave, with three prominent and numerous small char- 

 acteristic pittings. On the upper edge of this face is a hackly fracture, oblong in shape, 4.5 by 10 cm. in diameter, 

 where a piece, less than a pound according to Professor Barrows, was broken off by the finder in an effort to discover 

 what made the "stone" so heavy. The surface of this fracture, like that of the entire mass, being much oxidized, so 

 that the nickeliferous iron is not visible. On one edge there is a large, irregular pitting some 10 cm. long and 5 cm.' 

 deep. The whole mass is of a reddish-brown hue, intermingled with large irregular patches of an ochreous-yellow 

 color. On no part of the iron was the true crust observed. Its weight was 43 pounds 11 ounces, or 19.8 kilograms. 



