May. 1902. 



Meteorite Studies, I — Farrington. 



3i3 



The analysis, made by Mr. H. W. Nichols, and using the methods 

 noted above for the Los Reyes meteorite, gave the following results: 



Amount of substance taken, 2,166.3 grams. 



Fe 



Ni 



Co 



Cu 



Mn 



Sn 



S 



P 



95.20 

 4.64 

 0.404 

 0.035 

 trace 

 trace 

 0.13 

 0.07 



100.48 



The other meteorites known to have been found in Indian mounds 

 of this country are those of Octibbeha County, Mississippi, and the 

 Turner Mounds, Ohio. In the Octibbeha County iron the quantity 

 of nickel reaches 59.7%, and this sufficiently distinguishes it from any 

 other known meteorite. The Turner Mound meteorites include 

 masses from two different mounds, w T hich were analyzed by Kinnicutt* 

 with the following results: 



Fe 

 Ni 

 Co 



It will be remembered that Kunz concluded from a comparison of 

 the Turner Mounds meteorites with those of Kiowa County, Kansas, 

 that on account of the marked similarity in constitution and structure 

 they belonged to the same fall.* The Hopewell Mounds are only 

 about seventy-five miles distant from'the Turner Mounds in an east- 

 erly direction, and it might be expected ^that the same meteoric iron 

 would have been used for the construction of the objects found in 

 these mounds. The results of the analysis above given do not, how- 

 ever, permit this conclusion, the differences in the percentages being 

 greater than are known to occur among the individuals of a single 

 fall. Comparison of etching figures is out of the question on account of 

 the distortion of those of the Hopewell Mounds specimen, but the lack 

 of any-content of chrysolite such as characterizes the Turner Mounds 



♦Reports Peabody Museum of Archaeology, vol. 3. p. 382. et seq. 

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