A SECOND METEORIC FIND FROM SCOTT COUNTY, 



KANSAS. 



By George P. Merrill, 



Head Curator of Geology, United States National Museum. 



Those conversant with the literature will perhaps remember that 

 in connection with the description of a new meteorite from Modoc, 

 Kansas, some years ago * I appended a brief note descriptive of a 

 small stone (135 grams) forwarded by Mr. J. T. Freed, which I 

 relegated provisionally to the Jerome fall of 1898. This was 

 acknowledgedly open to question; there was no question, however, 

 but that it formed no part 6i the Modoc fall then under considera- 

 tion, and the occurrence was sufficiently interesting to cause Mr. Jolm 

 T. Freed (son of Mr. J. K. Freed, finder of the Modoc stone) to search 

 for more material. As a result there was received from him in Novem- 

 ber, 1911, the fragment shown in plate 39, fig. 1, accompanied by the 

 statement that it was found on a quarter section adjoining the one 

 where was found the largest stone of 1906; or, more exactly, about 

 the middle of section 8, township 18, range 33 southwest. 



The stone as received is plainly a fragment, roughly wedge-shaped, 

 showing on the lower surface (pi. 39, fig. 1) a fracture so recent in the 

 course of its flight as to be scarcely coated by a fused crust. Other 

 surfaces show the usual crust though obscured by oxidation, the 

 entire stone being of a rusty ocherous brown color. As figured it 

 weighed a scant 1,900 grams. The maximum dimensions were 140 

 mm. by 130 mm. by 65 mm., thinning out to not more than 10 mm. at 

 the top. The exterior features of the stone, as well as a polished 

 surface, are somewhat similar to those of a recently found but yet 

 undescribed stone from CuUison in Pratt County, and it was thought 

 at first there might be some collection between the two. Further 

 study has, however, convinced me of a lack of identity, both in min- 

 eral composition and in structure. 



The stone is chondritic, but chondrules of such size as to be evident 

 on a polished surface are rare, of a green color, and firmly embedded 

 in the dense greenish black fragmental ground. The microscopic 



1 Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. 22, May, 1900. 



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