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BULLETIN 94, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Etched and showing peculiar schreibersite markings. Date of fall 

 unknown. First came to notice in 1883, and described in 1888. 

 Weight of original mass some 162 kilograms. Composition according 

 to analyses by C. von Bonhorst : Iron, 89.39 ; nickel and cobalt, 8.27 ; 

 phosphorus, 0.26, with a trace of copper. 

 Reference. — See Wiilfing, p. 308. 



SAREPTA, SARATOV, RUSSIA. No. 455. 



Iron, Og. Slice about 35 by 40 mm., weighing 124 grams, from a 

 mass weighing 14,325 grams, found in 1854. Auerbach's analysis 

 yielded : 



Per cent. 



Iron (Fe) 95.927 



Nickel (Ni) 2.657 



Silicon (Si) .020 



Tin (Sn) .017 



Schreibersite 1. 315 



99. 936 



Reference. — W. Haidinger, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 46, 1862, 

 p. 286; 49, 1864, p. 497. 



SCHONENBERG, PFAFFENHATJSEN, SCHWABEN, BAVARIA. No. 220. 



Stone, Cwa. Weight, 8 grams. Fragment with small area of 

 crust. Mass dark gray with light and dark chondrules and metallic 

 grains, traversed by dark veins. Fell December 25, 1846, at 2 p. m. 

 Was traveling in, at first, a northeast and finally southeast direction. 

 The fall was accompanied by the usual cannon-like report, and the 

 stone, weighing 8 kilograms, 15 grams, buried itself in the soil to a 

 depth of 2 feet. Analyses by Giimbel yielded : 



