Meteorite Collection — Handbook and Catalogue. 



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AEROSIDERITES OR IRON METEORITES. 



Cat 

 No. 



Date 

 of Fall or Find 



NAME AND DESCRIPTION. 



We Split 

 ingrains 



125) 

 130 



154 



378 



181 



Found 18S7. 

 Found 1887. 



Found 1887. 

 Found 1888. 



132 



133 

 134 



189 



13G 

 137 



138 



139 



Found 1888. 



Found 18S9. 



Found 1889. 

 Found 1890. 



Found 1890. 

 Found 1890. 



Chattooga County, (Holland Store) Georgia. 

 Thin fragment with crust. Polished surface. (W.) 



Silver Crown, Laramie Co., Wyoming. 



Etched slab with crust. Structure coarsely crys- 

 talline, with a few rectilinear figures. Lines of 

 taenite very distinct. (W. ) 



Floyd County .(Indian Valley Township,)Vi r g i n i a. 



Nearly complete individual, with natural surface. 

 Crust yellowish-brown. Pittings broad and shal- 

 low. (K.) 



Scalings from previous specimen, also highly pol- 

 ished fragment. (K.) 



Hamilton County, Texas. 



Full-sized, thin slab, showing polished and etched 

 surfaces The W. f. appear as beautifully dis- 

 tinct and delicate lines running parallel in two 

 directions throughout the mass. Troilite is dis- 

 tributed in radiating veins. See Plate I, Fig 2, 

 and Plate II. (W.) 



Welland, Ontario, Canada. 



Segment, showing etched and natural surfaces. 

 W. f. distinct and regular. Scattered grains of 

 troilite are present. A marked tendency to octa- 

 hedral cleavage is apparent. (W.) 



K.-nton County, Kentucky. 



About one-third of the original mass, showing 

 crust and polished surface. Contains nodules of 

 troilite. (W.) 



Full-sized slab, etched. W. f. very distinct and 

 regular. Shows marked cleavage and tendency 

 to separate along the cleavage planes. Very per- 

 fect octahedrons can be cleaved out from the 

 mass. (W. ) 



*Full-sized slab. Both sides polished. (W.) 



Henry County, Virginia. 

 Cleavage pieces, (octahedral) much oxidized. (K. ) 



Bridgewater, Burke Co., North Carolina. 

 Thin slab with natural and etched surfaces. Ex- 

 hibits well marked W. f. (W. ) 



Kendall County, Texas. 



Thin slab with natural, sawed and etched surfaces. 



The etched surface exhibits a coarsely granular 



structure, crossed by a network of delicate.straight 



lines. Shows numerous nodules of troilite. 



(W.) 

 Nagy-Vazsony, Hungary. 



Thin slab showing natural, etched and polished 

 surfaces. Typical W. f. (W.) 



28 



71 



13,142 



3,400 



715.5 



30. GOO 



9,312 

 12,231 



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118 

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