A xp:wly found metkoric stoxk kkpoktei) by 



W. B. LANG FROM PECKS SPIUNCJ. MIDLAND COLxNTY, 

 TEX. 



lJ<(td ('iiriili)r of <l<(il(i(iji. ( nitiil Studs Xalioiidl .Mkxikiii 

 (With (Ik luic.il analysis li.v F. A. Goxyek) 



Tlu' stone hero described was received at the Ignited States Na- 

 tional Mnsenni from ^Nlr. W. B. Lan<j: of tlu^ Ignited States Geological 

 Survey to Avhose kindly efforts Ave are indel)ted both for the acces- 

 sion ^ and the information i-e^ardinn- its (icfiu'icnce and finding, as 

 quoted below : 



The stone was found by ]Mr. li. De Cliicchis about one-half mile 

 east of the .ludkins raneli house on section 14, township ^5, block 57, 

 Texas & Pacific Railroad survey. ^lidland County, Tex., on May L5, 

 1920. As found it was about the size and shape of a good-sized 

 potato, was well encrusted, and showed little evidence of having been 

 marred by contact from fall, lianmiering, or chi})ping. The portion 

 received at the Museum weighetl almost exactly s()() grams .and repre- 

 sented slightly less tlian one-half of the original, the remainder hav- 

 ing been broken away and scattered among numerous individuals. 

 Thei'e Avas nothing to indicate the exact j)oint of fall though the fact 

 that the stone showed no signs of wear or al)rasion leads to the con- 

 clusion that it was near by, if not on the exact spot, 'lliere is no 

 record of its having been seen to fall. 



Broken and polished sui'faces of the stone show an umisually dense, 

 dark-gray, nearly black gi'ound. thickly studded with firmly embedded 

 gray chondi'itic foi'ms of all sizes up to 5 or 6 millimeters. ]\Iinute 

 points of metal and metallic sulphide are thickly and iri'egularly 

 distributed through the nuiss; in a few instances the first mentioned 

 is clustered collarlike about a chondrule in such a manner as to give 

 countenance to the theoiv once advanced by Nordenskjold to the 

 effect that it was derived from the silicate through a process of 

 reduction. - 



1 Cat. No. 8.31, U. S. N. M. 



- Geol. Foreningen Stockholm Forhandlinger, 1878-79, p. 60. 



No. 2787.— Proceedings U. S. National Museum. Vol. 75, Art. 16. 



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