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V. 

 CATALOGUE OF ALL RECORDED METEORITES, 



WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIMENS IN THE HARVARD 



COLLEGE COLLECTION, INCLUDING THE CABINET OF 



THE LATE J. LAWRENCE SMITH. 



By Oliver Whipple Huntington, Ph. D., 



Instructor in Mineralogy and Chemistry. 



Presented June 15, 1887. 



The nucleus of the collection of meteorites in the Mineralogical 

 Museum of Harvard College was a small collection made by Professor 

 Cooke, and representing altogether about fifty falls. In October, 1883, 

 the well-known collection of J. Lawrence Smith was purchased for 

 the College by subscription. Professor Smith, being anxious that the 

 collection should be kept together, himself subscribed for the purchase. 

 The following are the names of the subscribers : — 



J. Lawrence Smith. H. H. Hunnewell. 



Josiah P. Cooke. Martin Brimmer. 



Alexander Agassiz. Henry P. Kidder. 



Anne Wigglesworth. George H. Norman. 



With this addition the collection has become worthy of special 

 notice, and is very rich in iron meteorites, of which about one hundred 

 falls are represented, including several large individual specimens. 

 The collection contains many fine examples of large cleavage crys- 

 tals, which have been studied with great care, and are particularly 

 described in this catalogue. It contains also numerous etched slabs, 

 and in describing these attention is called to the character of the 

 figures, and also to the variation of these figures, not only on different 

 sections of the same meteorite, but frequently on different parts of the 

 same section. 



The collection of stones is not nearly so complete as that of the 

 irons, and no attempt has been made to study their structure, or to 



