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PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMEPJCAN ACADEMY 



Date of Fall or Find. 



Found 1873. 



Recognized 1873. 



Fell 1873. 



June. 



Fell 1873. 



Sept. 23, 5 a. m. 



Found 1874. 



No. 



Weight 



in 

 Grams. 



350 



351 



352 



353 



354 



000 



21.5 

 3 



53 



69 



8,028 

 2,919 



1,439 



Description. 



Ssyromoltow, Angara, Siberia. 



Duel Hill, Madison Co., North Carolina, 

 U. S. A. 



Iron. A large etched face shows cu- 

 rious Widmanstattian figures. In some 

 parts good octahedral plates with inclu- 

 sions of bright nickel-iron, but other 

 portions of the surface are cracked up 

 into irregular grains, showing no evi- 

 dence of Widmanstattian plates. The 

 exterior shows a well-marked octahe- 

 dral cleavage. [Smith Collection.] 



* Fragment with etched surface, and 

 marked octahedral cleavage on exterior. 

 [Smith Collection.] 



* Irregular fragment. [Smith Collec- 

 tion.] 



Jhung, Punjaub, India. 



Stone. Dark gray, full of darker 

 grains. Three polished faces show 

 considerable iron. On two sides cov- 

 ered with a black spongy crust. [Smith 

 Collection.] 



Khairpur, Mooltan, India. 



Stone. Dark-colored, compact, and 

 full of fine iron particles. Nearly cov- 

 ered by a thin black crust, excepting 

 two poiished faces. [Smith Collection.] 



Butler, Bates Co., Missouri, U. S. A. 



Iron. Mass, with two sawed faces at 

 right angles to each other, and the rest 

 crust. [Smith Collection.] 



One large polished surface, with one 

 half of it etched, showing beautiful 

 Widmanstattian figures. Contains two 

 large nodules of troilite. The rest 

 crust. [Purchased.] 



Mass with crust, and three etched 

 faces cut at right angles to each other, 

 in one of which is a large nodule of 

 troilite. On one corner an octahedral 

 cleavage appears, showing that one of 

 the etched faces is parallel to an octa- 

 hedral plane. Fig. 15 shows a sketch 

 of this etched face somewhat roughly 

 reproduced so that the finest lines do 

 not appear. On the original specimen 



