HANDBOOK OF THE METEORITE COLLECTIONS. 135 



RXJFF'S MOUNTAIN, LEXINGTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. No. 34. 



Iron, Om. Weight, 7 grams. Small slice with Widmanstatten fig- 

 ures. Weight of original mass, 53 kilograms (117 pounds). Date of 

 fall unknown; found in 1844. Analysis by Shepard yielded: 



Fer cent. 



Iron (Fe) 96.00 



Nickel (Ni) 3.121 



Chromium (Cr) Trace. 



Sulphur (S) Trace. 



Cobalt (Co) Trace. 



Magnesium (Mg) Trace. 



99. 121 



References. — C. U. Shepard, Amer. Joum. Sci., vol. 10, 1850, p. 

 128 ; Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., vol. 3, 1850, p. 152. 



BUSSELL GULCH, GILFIN COUNTY, COLORADO. No. 186. 



Iron, Of. Eectangular section, 4.5 by 1.7 by 1.2 cm., weighing 76 

 grams. One original surface. From a mass weighing 13 kilograms 

 (29 pounds), found in 1863. Analysis by J. Lawrence Smith yielded: 



Per cent. 



Iron (Fe) 90.61 



Nickel (Ni) 7.84 



Cobalt (Co) .78 



Phosphorus (P) .02 



Copper (Cu) Minute trace 



99. 2.5 

 Reference. — J. L. Smith, Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. 43, 1867, p. 66. 



SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS, EDDY COUNTY, NEW MEXICO. No. 230. 



Iron, Om. Weight, 4,420 grams. Slab 60 by 16 cm., with etched 

 surface showing Widmanstatten figures (pi 33). Weight of original 

 mass, 237 kilograms. Date of fall uncertain — perhaps 1876. Analy- 

 sis by J. E. Whitfield yielded : 



Per cent. 



Iron (Fe) 91.39 



Nickel (Ni) 7.86 



Cobalt (Co) .52 



99.77 

 Reference. — W. M. Foote, Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. 3, 1897, p. 65. 



SAINT FRANCOIS COUNTY, MISSOURI. Nos. 130, 427. 



Iron, Og. Weight, 276 grams; in two pieces — one a slice etched 

 weighing 245 grams, one a fragment weighing 31 grams. In 1863 

 Shumard found a meteoric iron weighing 340 grams in the collections 

 of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences and labeled as from southeast 



