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shortly afterward purchased by Mr. George F. Kunz, of New York 

 City, and after remaining in his possession for about a year was secured 

 for this Museum. 



The entire weight of the meteorite as received at the Museum and 

 made up of 4 large and 2,930 small fragments, was 1,184 pounds (537 

 kilos). This was supposed at the time to be the entire weight of the 

 mass, but a year or two later Mr. Kunz obtained about 60 pounds 

 (27 kilos) more, which is for the most part still in his possession. 

 This additional material was chiefly fragments obtained from people 

 in the region who had carried off portions of the stone for curiosities. 

 A weight of at least 1,244 pounds (564 kilos) can therefore be posi- 

 tively assigned the stone and there is little doubt that it originally 

 weighed somewhat more than this since some pieces were probably 

 carried off that will never be recovered. That the fragments all 

 belonged to a single mass the manner of their occurrence in place leaves 

 no doubt. Moreover their edges show no rounding or fusing 

 as would have been the case had any of them made an independ- 

 ent passage through any considerable part of the earth's atmos- 

 phere. The stone is therefore much the largest single stone meteorite 

 known to exist, its nearest competitors being the Bjurbole meteorite, 

 which weighs 748 pounds (340 kilos) and one of the stones of the 

 Knyahinya fall, which weighs 649 pounds (295 kilos). 



As soon as the installation of the stone was -undertaken at the 

 Museum, it was at once seen that the four large pieces fitted together. 

 When this was done the form shown in Plate XLIII (Frontispiece) 

 was produced. Doubtless others of the fragments could be added to 

 these, but as an effort to do this proved on trial to be likely to con- 

 sume considerable time without giving any important results, the 

 attempt was abandoned. There would be more hope of success if the 

 Museum possessed the entire mass of the stone, but as it is, many of 

 the fragments would be missing at best. The four large pieces weigh 

 together 669 pounds (303 kilos), or more than half the weight of the 

 stone. They hence probably give its essential form. Their weights 

 are 269, 239, 89^ and 71^ pounds (122, 108, 46 and 32 kilos) respec- 

 tively. The largest of the remaining fragments at the Museum 

 weighs 22^ pounds (10 kilos), which is a weight much below that of 

 the smallest of the four large ones. Mr. Kunz informs me that one 

 of the fragments in his possession weighs about 35 pounds (15.8 kilos). 

 The smaller fragments range from the weight above mentioned to 

 those not over a gram in weight. Some have the true meteorite crust 

 on one surface, showing that they are from the superficial portion of 

 the stone, while the rough, irregular surfaces of the remaining frag- 



