132 BULLETIN 04, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



HEED CITY, OSCEOLA COUNTY, MICHIGAN, No. 316. 



Iron, Om. Triangular piece, some 18 by 18 cm., weighing 263 

 grams. From a mass weighing 19.8 kilograms, or 43 pounds 11 ounces, 

 found in 1895. A chemical analysis by J. E. Whitfield yielded : Iron, 

 89.386; nickel, 8.180. 



Reference. — H. L. Preston, Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci., vol. 4, 1903, 

 p. 89. 



RHINE VILLA (RHINE VALLEY 1), SOUTH AUSTRALIA. No. 272. 



Iron, Om. Section weighing 118 grams, found in 1901. 



RICH MOUNTAIN, JACKSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. No. 362. 



Stone, Cia. Weight, 179 grams. End of mass, showing one sur- 

 face smooth sawn, one fractured surface with thin crust, and old sur- 

 face with thicker crust (pi. 32). Weight of entire mass, so far as 

 found, 668 grams. This, however, was plainly a fragment from a 

 larger stone. Supposed to have been a portion of a fall which took 

 place about June 20, 1903. Mineral composition, olivine, monoclinic 

 and orthorhombic pyroxenes, and maskelynite, with the usual metallic 

 and sulphide grains. Composition, as determined by W. Tassin, is as 

 follows : 



Per cent. 



Iron 7. 070 



Nickel . . 730 



Cobalt . 031 



Troilite 3. 890 



Schreibersite • 200 



Olivine 46. 990 



Insoluble silicates 40. 670 



Magnetite • 150 



Graphite • 015 



99. 746 



Reference.— Qi. P. Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 32, 1907, 

 p. 241. 



ROCHESTER, FULTON COUNTY, INDIANA. No. 44. 



Stone, Cc. Weight, 2 grams. Fragment with crust. Fell a little 

 before 9 p. m. December 21, 1876, passing eastward over the states of 

 Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, the length of its ob- 

 served track being from 1,000 to 1,100 miles. In various parts of its 

 track it threw off fragments accompanied with the usual rumbling 

 noise and commotion in the atmosphere common to the flight of these 

 bodies. When crossing Indiana the main body was followed by a 

 train of smaller bodies, many of them of the apparent size of Venus 

 or Jupiter. Its velocity in reference to the earth's surface appeared 

 to be from 8 to 12 miles a second. The pyrotechnic display is said 



