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Date of Fall or Find. 



Fell 1164? 



Found 1861, 



Fell 1400? 

 Recognized 1811 



Fell 1492. 



Nov. 16, 12J p. m. 



Known in 1600? 

 Recognized 1828. 



No. 



Weight 



in 

 Grams. 



61 



60 



147 

 23.2 



09 



8.4 



304.2 



Description. 



Breitenbach, Platten, Bohemia. 



Four polished faces cut at right an- 

 gles to each other, and the rest crust. 

 [Smith Collection. From Wohler.] 



* Like the previous specimen. [-Smith 

 Collection. From Wohler.] 



Ragged specimen, appearing rough- 

 er than the specimens of Steinbach and 

 Rittersgriin, and showing beautiful glas- 

 sy crystals of olivine, highly modified. 

 All the specimens of this group have 

 effusions of chloride of iron. [Smith 

 Collection. From Wohler. J 



Elbogen, Bohemia. 



Iron. One large polished surface, 

 the rest showing crust. [Smith Collec- 

 tion.'] 



* Beautifully etched slab, showing 

 well marked Widmanstattian figures. 

 [Smith Collection.] 



Ensisheim, Elsass, Germany. 



Stone. One polished surface, show- 

 ing a mass of iron in one part, and iron 

 grains distributed through the rest. 

 [Smith Collection. From Wohler.] 



Irregular fragment. [Smith Collec- 

 tion, From Wohler.] 



La Caille, near Grasse, Alpes Mari- 

 times, France. 



For about two centuries it was in 

 front of the church of La Caille, and 

 was used as a seat. Its meteoric origin 

 was recognized by Brard in 1828. 



Highly crystalline iron. Shows three 

 natural octahedral faces, and one do- 

 decahedral face an inch in diameter, 

 which is exactly at 145° with an adja- 

 cent octahedral face as shown by an ap- 

 plication goniometer. This face, being 

 a single plate, shows no figures when 

 etched, but only a mottled appearance. 

 Fig. 2 shows of original size an etched 

 face of this specimen, cut parallel to an 

 assumed cube face. There is also an- 

 other etched face cut at right angles to 

 the one in the figure, so that the direc- 

 tion of the plates may be observed. In 



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