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straight. Here a broad flat surface is presented, perpendicular to 

 the base of the cone or as if a section had been cut through the cone 

 at one side of the apex and removed. The pittings of this surface 

 resemble furrows and run in general, parallel to the axis of the cone. 

 Some, however, converge from points on the side toward the central 

 point of the base. This is the course which currents of air rushing 

 from the front side backward to the partial vacuum behind might be 

 expected to take. The characters above described make it clear that 

 the convex surface with its deeper, smaller pits was the front side of 

 the meteorite in falling. The characters of the crust cannot be deter- 

 mined from the cast nor are minute drift phenomena, if any occur, to 

 be seen. Brezina, however, states* that the rear side has a bark crust 

 0.5 to 1 mm. thick. The plate accompanying the present paper 

 (Plate XXXV) shows the characters above described. The adoption 

 by the writer for this meteorite of the name Iron Creek instead of the 

 more usual one of Victoria is on account of information received from 

 Mr. Johnston of the Geological Survey that the small mission station 

 of Victoria, from which the meteorite received that name, is one hun- 

 dred and fifty miles from the locality where the meteorite was found, 

 and it is no longer known by that name, its present name being 

 Papan. Iron Creek is a well-defined stream only twenty-five miles in 

 length, which takes its name from the fact that the meteorite was 

 found near it. Iron Creek, moreover ; is the English translation of the 

 Indian name given to the stream before the white man entered the 

 country. The meteorite was known to the Indians and held in great 

 veneration by them. 



LAMPA, CHILE. 



Among a number of meteorites obtained by the late Professor Henry 

 A. Ward in Chile in 1905 one was placed by Professor Ward in the 

 hands of the writer for description. The only information given the 

 writer by Professor Ward at that time was that the meteorite had been 

 handed to him by some one at the School of Mines at Santiago. On 

 corresponding with the School of Mines, the Director, Senor A. Orrego 

 Cortes, kindly informed the writer that the meteorite had been found 

 in the Sierra de Chicauma near Lampa. The latitude of the locality 

 is 33° l S' S. and the longitude 71 W. The height above the sea level 

 is 1000 metres. Sehor Cortes also stated that other specimens of the 

 find aggregating 5-6 kilograms in weight had been preserved. 



The meteorite is of the stony variety. From the locality it would 

 seem to be a different fall from any yet described. The material pro- 

 * Wiener Sammlung, 1895, p. 279. 



