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forms are largely fragmental and of the usual olivine-pyroxene type, 

 the pyroxenes bemg both the monoclinic and orthorhombic varieties. 

 The colorless limpid interstitial mineral occurring in the Modoc stone 

 and there assumed to be a feldspar, is here quite lacking, and nothing 

 that could with certainty be identified as a feldspar was observed. 

 Occasionally polysynthetically twinned forms were met with which, 

 while suggestive of a plagioclase, were, from their lack of limpidity 

 and high polarization colors, assumed to be pyroxene, as usual. The 

 metallic iron and iron sulphide are very evenly and abundantly dis- 

 seminated throughout the mass of the stone m sizes rarely above one 

 or two millimeters in diameter. Compared with other stones from the 

 same State it is a trifle coarser in texture and of a more greenish color 

 than that of Oakley ; more compact and darker in color than that of 

 Ness County. It more closely resembles both in color and texture a 

 stone in the U. S. National Museum collections, from Cullison, Pratt 

 County, in the south-central part of the State, but more than 100 

 miles distant. Of foreign stones it more closely resembles that of 

 Gilgoin Station, New South Wales, than any others of the National 

 Museum collection. 



Should this, as is now apparent, prove to be an mdependent fall it, 

 together with that of Cullison, above noted, will make 17 to be 

 credited to Kansas. Inasmuch as I designated the fhid of 1906 as 

 the Modoc meteorite, it will perhaps be best that this second find be 

 known simply as the Scott City stone, the two individuals thus far 

 known weighing respectively 135 and 1,900 grams. From the slightly 

 glazed character of the fracture above alluded to it seems not at aU 

 improbable that more material may yet be found. 



A fragment of this stone, weighmg 175 grams only, is m the collec- 

 tion of the National Museum (Cat. No. 429), the main mass still 

 remaining in the possession of Mr. John T. Freed, of Scott City. 



