B. THE SHEPARD COLLECTION. 



Prof. C. U. Sheparcl, one of the earliest American mineralogists, 

 was born June 29, 1804, and died May 1, 1886. For several years 

 he served as an assistant to Prof. Benj. Silliman, sr., in Yale College, 

 New Haven, Connecticut, and was professor of chemistry in the 

 Medical College of the State of South Carolina, at Charleston, South 

 Carolina, from 1833 to 1870, except during the period of the Civil 

 War. For some years also he was professor of chemistry and natural 

 history at Amherst College, in Massachusetts. He was one of the 

 most enthusiastic American students of meteorites, wrote many 

 papers relating to them, and made extensive collections. This col- 

 lection is exhibited through the courtesy of his son. Dr. C. U. 

 Shepard, of Summerville, South Carolina.^ 



ABERT IRON. No. 20. 



Iron, Om. Fragment weighing 11.3 grams. Source unknown. 



ALMS, GARD, FRANCE. No. 133. 



Stone, K. A dark brown powder and some friable fragments 

 weighing 0.60 grams; carbonaceous. Fell March 15, 1806, 5 p. m. 



ALBARETO, NEAR MODENA, ITALY. No. 124. 



Stone, Cc. Fragment from interior weighing 1 gram. Ground- 

 mass light gray. Fell July, 1766. 



ALEXANDER COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. No. 82. 



Iron. Etched fragment weighing 12.3 grams. Found in 1860. 



ALFIANELLO, PROVINCE OF BRESCIA, ITALY. No. 237. 



Slone, Ci. Two fragments from interior weighing 29.54 grams. 

 Fell February 16, 1883, 3 p. m. 



ALLEGAN, MICHIGAN. No. 247. 



Stone, Ceo. Fragments from interior weighing 125 grams. 



1 Dr. Shepard died on July 5, 1915, since the manuscript of this Bulletin went to the 

 printer. By his will the collection has been left to the United States National Museum 

 fis a memorial of his father's labors. 



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