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The analysis gave : 



Fe 87.01 



P 04 



SiOz 53 



CI 39 



Ni 11.69 



Co... 79 



100.45 

 II. FROM HENRY COUNTY, VA. 



This meteoric iron was found by Nathaniel Murphy, in Henry 

 county, Va., about four miles from the Pittsylvania county line, 

 and one-half mile north of the dividing line between North Caro- 

 lina and Virginia, near to Smith River. Murphy found the 

 stone in a ploughed field in the latter part of the spring of 

 1889. He gave it to Colonel J. Turner Morehead, of Leaks- 

 ville, N. C. Together with Colonel Morehead he searched over 

 the farm, but could iind nothing similar to this })iece. Colonel 

 Morehead sent the mass to Dr. H. B. Battle, of Raleigh, N. C. 

 It weighed 1.7 kilos, and the detached pieces, mainly crust, 

 weighed 0.22 kilos. This crust broke off along certain lines by 

 a sort of cleavage, and the main mass is permeated with cracks, 

 not irregular and zigzag, but as distinct and regular, almost, as 

 if it were a piece of crystallized gy})sum. This cleavage is in 

 two directions. The laminae vary in thickness, but many are 

 about J mm. The color of the surface is dark bluish black, mixed 

 with much red-rust coming from the lawrencite. Parts of the 

 soil apparently still clung to the mass. It measured 60 x 70 x 

 75 mm., taking the greatest lengths in the three directions. Here 

 and there scales or spots of bright silvery sheen were to be seen. 

 It contains a good deal of ferric chloride, and is rapidly crum- 

 bling. On polishing one of the faces, the Widmanstiitten figures 

 (coarse) came out very plainly, no etching being necessary. 



The analysis resulted as follows : 



Fe 90.54 



CI 35 



SiOs 04 



P 13 



Co 94 



Ni 7.70 



99.70 



U.MVEKSITY OF NoIiTII CAROLINA, 



May, 180(1. 



