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Field Columbian Museum — Geology, Vol. i. 



AEROLITES OR STONE METEORITES. 



Cat. 



No. 



Date 

 of Fall or Find 



FAME AND DESCRIPTION. 



Weight 

 in grams. 



275 



;?6 



277 



278 



279 



280 

 281 



282 

 283 



284 



285 

 286 



287 



Fell 18G0, 

 July 14, 

 230 P. M. 



Fell 1861, 

 May 12. 



Fell 1861. 

 Oct. 7, 

 1:30 P. M. 



Fell 1863, 

 Aug. 8, 

 12:30 P. M. 



Found 1863-4 



Fell 1864, 

 May 14, 8 P.M. 



Fell 1865, 

 Aug. 25, 

 11 A. M. 



Fell 1866, 

 June 9, 

 5 P. M. 



Dhurmsala, Kangra, Punjaub, India. 



Fragments from interior. (K.) 



Fragment with crust, the latter black, shining and 

 showing numerous pits. Interior light-gray, with 

 rusty grains. Compact. Nodules of a bluish 

 gray, finer grained than the rest, are distributed 

 through the mass. (W.) 



Butsura, Goruckpur, India. 



Fragments with crust and polished surfaces. Iron 

 is present in large amount, forming a matrix in 

 which are held chondri 1 mm. in diameter, of 

 an olivine-like mineral. The rest of the ground- 

 mass is greenish-black, structureless. (W.) 



Klein-Henow, Alt-Strelitz, Mecklenberg. 

 Fragment from interior, made up of coarse, trans- 

 parent grains with rusty metallic ones, the whole 

 resembling a piece of brjwn sandstone. (W.) 



Aukoma, PHHstifer, Livland, Russia. 



Fragment from interior. Dark-gray, compact. 

 Made up of dark, transparent grains with a large 

 number of minute specks of troilite. (W.) 



Toinhannock Creek, Rensselaer Co., N e w Y or k 

 Fragment from interior, polished. Made up chiefly 

 of metallic grains, and a dark-brown, olivine- 

 like mineral. (W.) 

 Slice, showing crust. Interior portion like pte- 

 vious specimen. (W.) 



Orgueil, Montauban, Tarn et Garonne, France. 

 Coarse, black powder, somewhat friable. (K.) 



Aumale, Senhadja, Algeria, Africa. 



Slice from interior. Ash-gray, few metallic grains. 

 Chondritic structure. (W. ) 



Knyahinya, near Nagy-Berezna, Hungary. 



One-half of a complete individual, showing crust 

 and polished surface. The latter exhibits large 

 and small chondri, with few metallic grains. (W.) 



Complete individual, covered with thin, black crust. 



Complete individual, mostly covered with black, 

 somewhat shining crust. Surface indented with 

 shallow pits. (WJ 



Flattened mass, showing crust and one polished 

 surface. The crust surface is smooth and cov- 

 ered with small, conical pittings, giving to it the 

 appearance of having a cellular structure. The 

 polished surface well exhibits the aggregation 

 of chondri which make up the mass of the stone. 

 Some of the chondri reach a diameter of 3 mm. 



(K.) 



123 



1.85 



7.5 



1.5 



82 

 10 



239 



3,231 



