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LilercUure — Am. Jour. Sci., xvil, p. 140; XL, p. 8G9 ; Clark, Gl ; Uep. Am. 

 M., p. 24; Piirtscli, p. 114; Huntington,}). r)2 ; Min. and Min. Loc, \). 13; 

 Kerr Appendix, p. 56. 



Present Possessors — Amherst, 2.15 grams; Yale, 20; London, 15; Vienna, 8; 

 Gottingen, 8; Calcutta, 10.5. 



13. 



Haywood Meteorite. 



Locallly — Haywood county. Analyst — Shepard. 



This fragtueut, weighing one-eighth of an onnce, was sent to 

 Dr. Shepard by Hon. T. L. Clingman, accompanied by the fol- 

 lowing remark: ''It was given me by a person in Haywood 

 county whose father had obtained it in that region, but without 

 his being able to designate the locality. It is evidently meteoric 

 iron, but is perhaps from some mass already known." 



Tlie fragment was highly crystalline and somewhat tetrahe- 

 dral in form. One side was polished and etched. It displayed 

 a marked character, and one which has no analogue among 

 meteoric irons. It was irregularly veined by a black ore, which 

 was not acted upon by acids and which presented all the proper- 

 ties of magnetite. 



Specific gravity=7.419. It contained iron, sulphur, phos- 

 phorus, chromium, and was rich in nickel. 



Literature — Am. Jour. Sci., 2d Ser. xvii, p. 327; Min. and Min. Loc, p. 15; 

 Kerr Appendix, p. 56; Buchner, p. 189. 

 Present Possessor — Amherst, 10 grams. 



14. 



Haywood Meteorite. 



Locality — Ferguson, Haywood county. 



Mr. Harrison, of Ferguson, N. C, noticed about 6 P. M., 

 July 18, 1889, a remarkable noise west of him. Fifteen 

 minutes later he saw something strike the earth, and this on 

 examination proved to be a meteoric stone, so hot that he could 

 scarcely hold it in his hand five minutes after it fell. Two- 

 thirds of its bulk was buried in the earth when found. The 



