THE METEORIC PERIDOTITES. 103 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Bavarian Meteorites. 



In 1878 Prof. C. W. Glimbel gave an account of his microscopic examination of five 

 meteorites that had fallen in Bavaria at different dates during the ISth and 19tli 

 centuries. Four of these are descril^ed below, and one later under The Hasalts. 



1. Tlic MaucrJiirschcn Meteorite. 



This rock is of a light-gray color, with black spots of metallic iron, which in places 

 show oxidation. It has a very fine-grained groundmass, which incloses blackish and 

 yellowish grains. The stone shows the chondritic structure, and has the usual charac- 

 ters. The groundmass contains fragments and grains of the various minerals. 



Giimbel holds that this meteorite contains olivine, a feldspathic and an augitic 

 mineral, pyndiotite, chromite, and iron. 



2. TJic JSicJistadt Meteorite. 



This rock also belongs to the chondritic meteorites, and was thought by Giimbel to 

 contain an augitic and two feldspathic minerals, as well as olivine, iron, pyrrhotite, and 

 chromite. 



3. The Schonenberg Meteorite. 



This, like the preceding, belongs to the chondritic type, and was thought by Giimbel 

 to contain the following minerals : olivine, iron, pyrrhotite, chromite, schreibersite, a 

 feldspathic, a scapolitic, and an augitic mineral. 



4. The Kraheriberg Meteorite. 



According to Giimbel this chondritic rock contained olivine, pyrrhotite, iron, chromite, 

 an augitic mineral (bronzite ?) and a feldspathic mineral (Labrador ?),* 



It is not probable that the meteorites above described by Giimbel in reality differ 

 much in mineralogical characters from the common forms, the determinations being here 

 thought to be imperfect. It is therefore to be hoped that in the light of the advances 

 made in the knowledge of the microscopic characters of minerals, a reexamination will 

 be made to these meteorites. 



Charloftetou'n, Cftbari'ciH Co., North Carolina. 



This stone is described as having, on the fresh fracture, a dark, bluish-gray ground- 

 mass, holding porphyritically inclosed crystals and grains of a grayish-white mineral, 

 with a tinge of lavender-ldue.f 



The specimen in the Harvard College Cabinet shows the usual chondritic structure, 

 and contauis considerable iron. The grayish-white minerals, with a tinge of lavender- 

 blue, are the chondri, which are well marked in this meteorite. It possesses a striking 



* Sitz. Miinchen Akad., 1S7S, viii. 1-1-73. 



t C. U. Shepard, Troc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1S50, iii. 149-1.52. 



