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PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Date of Fall or Find. 



Found 1850. 



Found 1850. 



Fell 1850. 



Nov. 30, 4£ p. M. 



Recognized 1851. 

 February. 



Fell 1851. 



April 17, 8 p. M. 



Fell 1851. 



Summer. 



Fell 1851. 



Not. 5, 5£ p. M. 



Found 1852. 



No. 



190 



191 



192 



193 



194 



195 



196 



197 



Weight 



in 

 Grams. 



10 



10 



211.5 

 25 



17 



16 



Description. 



Widraanstattian figures. [Smith Col- 

 lection. From C. U. Shepard.~\ 



Seneca Falls, Seneca River, New York, 

 U. S. A. 



Iron. Etched slab, showing very 

 well marked Widmanst'attian figures, 

 also octahedral cleavage. Crust on 

 [Smith Collection.] 



edge of slab. 



Mainz, Hesse, Germany. 



Stone. Irregular brown fragment, 

 apparently a piece of the crust. [Smith 

 Collection.] 



Shalka, Bancoorah, Bengal, India. 

 Stone. Light gray and black frag- 

 ment with iron grains, and veins filled 

 with black crust. [Smith Collection.] 



Ainsa (The Signet-Iron), Sonora, 

 Tucson, Arizona, U. S. A. 



Iron. Slab, with crust on edges. 

 [In exchange from U. S. National Mu- 

 seum.] 



* Thin, etched slab, showing no 

 figures but a granular arrangement 

 brought out by the acid. [Smith Col- 

 lection.] 



* Irregular piece, showing crust. 

 [Smith Collection.] 



* Also a quantity of turnings. [Pre- 

 sented by Prof. B. Silliman.] 



Guttersloh, Minden,Westphalia, Prus- 

 sia. 



Quincay, Vienne, France. 



Nulles, Catalonia, Spain. 



Cranberry Plains, Poplar Hill, Vir- 

 ginia, U. S. A. 



Iron. A very perfect octahedron, 

 two etched faces of which are shown 

 in Fig. 9 of original size. It will be 

 seen by this sketch that the octahedral 

 outline has been sharply formed ; but 

 while many of the VVidmanstattian 

 plates are parallel to this outline, there 



