CATALOGUE OF METEORITE COLLECTION. 681 



Crab Orcliant, Crab Orchard Mountains, Powder Mill Creek, Rockwood, Tennessee. 

 Stony iron. Weight, 77.9 grams. Found 1887. Two slabs, weight, 39.9 grams 

 and 38 grams, with polished surfaces showing the metallic matrix containing 

 siliceous grains of olivine, bronzite, etc. The metallic portion is about evenly 

 distributed, except for two masses, one of which has a diameter of 1.8 centi- 

 meters; these have been etched and show well-marked Widmanstiittian figures. 

 Catalogue number, 47736. Gift of Ward and Howell. 



Cranberri/ Plains, Poplar Hill, Virginia. Iron. Weight, 7.92 grams. Found 1852. 

 Fragment. The Shepard Collection, No. 50. 



Cranbourne, Victoria, Australia. Iron. Found 1854. One lot of fragments that 

 have been heated in hydrogen; weight, 25.3 grams. Troilite nodule from mass; 

 weight, 71.5 grams, (b) Yarra Yarra River; found 1858; weight, 15 grams. 

 Catalogue numbers, 47329, 47330; (b) 47738. 



Fragment much oxidized and somewhat decomposed from occlude<l Lawren- 

 cite; weight, 10.6 grams, (b) Yarra Yarra River; found 1858; weight, 21 grams. 

 Oxidized fragment. The Shepard Collection, No. 59; (b) No. 59a. 



Cronshtdt, Orange River, Orange Free State, South Africa. Stone. Weight, 12.5 

 grams. Fell November 19, 1877. Fragment with crust and polished surface. 

 Crust dull l)Iack, somewhat pitted and in swellings. Ground mass ash gray 

 with abundant metallic grains. Chondrules gray and white. The Shepard 

 Collection, No. 225. 



CroM Timbers, Red River, Texas. Iron. Weight, 10.6 grams. Known 1808. Chis- 

 eled fragment. Catalogue number, 47336. 



AV eight 63.7 grams. Two pieces, one 62.85 grams; the other a cleavage crystal, 

 0.85 gram. The Shepard Collection, No. 18. 



C*/«</iia»a, Harrison County, Kentucky. Stone. Weight, 1.77 grams. Fell January 

 23, 1877. Fragment with crust. The Shepard Collection, No. 223. 



Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia. Iron. Weight, 36.4 grams. Found 1877. 

 Fragment of the mass described l)y Shepard. Etched, showing coarse Widman- 

 stiittian figures. Catalogue number, 44590. 



Weight, 735.71 grams. Two pieces — part of first mass found. Etched face 

 shows broad Widmanstiittian figures, with scattering plates of taenite. Surface 

 more or less decomposed from presence of Lawrencite. The Shepard Collec- 

 tion, No. 90. 



Daniels Kuil, Griqualand, South Africa. Stone. Weight, 4.6 grams. Fell March 20, 

 1868. Fragment from interior. Ground mass ash gray flecked with rust. The 

 Shepard Collection, No. 204. 



Deal, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Stone. Weight, 4.19 grams. Fell August 14, 

 1829. Fragment with crust. Ground mass ash gray, fine granular and compact, 

 with delicate veins apparently filled with nickel iron somewhat oxidized. Struc- 

 ture chondritic with numerous metallic grains. The Shepard Collection, No. 157. 



Denton Count;/ (near Austin), Texa.s. Iron. Weight, 7.97 grams. Found 1856, 

 Etched fragment showing coarse Widmanstiittian figures. The Shepard Col- 

 lection, No. 63. 



Descubridura, Catoroze, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Iron. Weight, 24.8 grams. 

 Known 1780. Oblong slab, etched. The Shepard Collection, No. 3. 



L>/(«r7?i.s«Za, Kangra, India. Stone. Weight, 47.5 grams. Fell July 14, 1860, 2.30 p. m. 

 Fragment from interior. (Tround mass ash gray, granular and compact, and con- 

 taining large and small chondrules and metallic grains. Distributed through 

 the mass are large, fine, granular bluish-gray nodules. Catalogue number, 47323. 

 AVeight, 259.2 grams. Two fragments, (a) Fragment with crust. CruiSt 

 faint, shining, and much pitted. Ground mass ash gray, compact, with finer 

 grained bluish-gray nodules and oxidized metallic grains distributed through it. 

 (b) Fragment from interior, one surface polished. Two faces show fragmentary 

 slickensides. The Shepard Collection, No. 189. 



