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inches long, six broad and four thick, bearing marks in spots of 

 recent fracture, but otherwise black, as if it had been exposed to 

 heat and smoke, the black color being relieved where the crust 

 had been broken, and a little of the clayev soil in which it was 

 buried in its descent still adhered to it. Lustrous metallic points 

 appeared through the ground color. Mr. Post had heard the 

 explosion and heard the stone strike about three hundred yards 

 off with a dull, heavy jar of the ground. The stone had splin- 

 tered a [)ine log lying on the ground. It was buried under some 

 ten inches of soil. 



It is further described in the Huntington Catalogue as a 

 ^^ stone — dark gray with light grains and thickly sprinkled with 



* 



iron. Fragment showing dull black crust" (referring to the frag- 

 ment in the Harvard collection). 



The specific gravity was 3.60 — 3.66. 



Nickeliferoiis iron (witli chrome).. 6.320 



Iron sulphide 3.807 



iSilica 56.186 



Ferrous oxide 18.108 



Majjjnesia 10.406 



Ahiniina 1.707 



Lime, soda, potash and loss 3.394 



Literature — Am. Jour. Sci., 2d Ser., ix, p. 143; x, p. 127; Buchner, p. 

 79; Kerr Appendix, p. 56; Huntington, p. 69; Smithsonian Rep., p 263; 

 Min. and Min. Loc, p. 16. 



Present Possessors — Amherst (mass larger than two fists) ; Harvard, 168 grams; 

 National Musuem (Shep. (Jab.), 343.6 ; London, 385.5; Vienna, 138; Berlin, 

 133; Gottingen, 33; Paris, 42; Dorpat, 29; Dresden, 7; Bologna, 3; Yale, 

 2.31; Calcutta, 52; Gregory, 152; Baumhauei', 51 ; Siemascho. 



9. 



Caldwell Meteorite. 



Locality — Caldwell county. Analyst — Venable. 



A small piece of iron was found among the specimens for the 

 State Mu.seum, labeled, in Dr. Kerr's handwriting (roughly, on 

 an old piece of paper), "Meteoric iron from Caldwell county. '^ 

 The reference in his note-book .said it was received from a Coi. 

 Scilly. It has j)roved impossible to learn anything further 



