698 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1900. 



Vuca Mnerla, Atac-ania, Chili' — Continued. 



Weight, 27.(i3 grams; ()>) 29.8 grains. Found 1862; (b) 1867-68. Three frag- 

 ment^, two of which are thin sectionn; the third shows original and polished 

 surfaces. Structure somewhat granular, with the metallic and nonmetallic por- 

 tions about e(iually distributed, (b) Mejillones. Thin section in which the 

 metallic portion is distributed in occasional nodules and filiform shajies through- 

 out the stony gnnnid mass. The Shepard Collection, Nos. 119; b, 116. 



Veramin (Karand), Teheran, Persia. Stony iron. Weight, 6.5 grams. Fell Febru- 

 ary, 1880. Fragments. Catalogue number, 84700. Gift of G. P. Merrill. 



Vkioria Tle-s/, Cape Colony, South Africa. Iron. Weight, 2.15 grams. Found 1862. 

 Fell (?) 1862. Fragments of crust almost completely altered to limonite. The 

 Sheiiard Collection, No. 70. 



Vouillc, near Poitiers, Vienne, France. Stone. Weight, 14.57 grams. Fell May 13, 

 1831. Fragment from interior. The Shepard Collection, No. 158. 



Wuconda, Mitchell County, Kansas. Stone. Weight, 8 grams. Found 1874. Two 

 fragments, one with crust. Catalogue number, 46609. Gift of G. W. Chapman. 

 Weight, 996.55 grams. Mass with pitted and blebly crust, showing lines of 

 flow; also a fragment from interior. The Shepard Collection, No. 213. 



Warrenton, AVarren County, Missouri. Stone. Weight, 11 grams. Fell January 3, 

 1877, 7 a. in. Fragment from interior. Catalogue number, 46077. 

 Weight 27.25 grams. Fragment with crust. The Shepard Collection, No. 222. 



Weliand, Ontario, Canada. Iron. Weight, 36.5 grams. Found 1888. Section hav- 

 ing original and etched surface. WidmanstiUtian figures coarse and regular, 

 with scattering grains of troilite. Lines of octahedral cleavage well marked. 

 The Shepard Collection, No. 103. 



Werchne-Udmsk, River Niro, Trans Baikal, Siberia. Iron. Weight, 36.30 grams. 

 Found 1854. Etched section; Widmanstilttian figures coarse. The Shepard 

 Collection, No. 58. 



WcnUm, Fairfield County, Connecticut. Stone. Weight, 17 grams. Fell December 

 14, 1807, 6.30 a. m. Fragment from interior. Catalogue numbQj', 47743. 



Weight, 74.37 grams. Three fragments, one without crust. The Shepard 

 Collection, No. 135. 



Wichita County, Brazos River, Texas. Iron. Weight, 20.8 grams. Founij. 1836. 

 Fragment 4 by 1 by 0.7 cm. Catalogue numljer, 45273. 



Weight", 212.4 grams, (a) Section with original and etched surface; weight, 

 143 grams; (1)) .section as above; weight, 69.40 grams. Both show coarse Wid- 

 manstilttian figures, with nodules of troilite and flakes of schreibersite. The 

 Shepai'd Collection, No. 26. 



Wold Cottof/e, Yorkshire, P^ngland. Stone. AVeight, 13.02 grams. Fell Decem])er 

 13, 1795, 3.30 p.m. Fragment with crust and polished surface. The Shepard 

 Collection, No. 129. 



Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio. Iron. AVeight, 2.86 grams. Found 1858. Rec- 

 tangular fragment. The Shepard Collection, No. 65. 



Yatoor, near Nellore, Madras, India. Stone. Weight, 2.81 grams. Fell January 

 23, 1852, 4.30 p. m. Fragment from interior. The Shepard Collection, No. 174. 



Znhorzika, Volhynien, Russia. Stone. Weight, 4.1 grams. Fell April 10, 1818. 

 Fragment from interior, (iround mass ash gray, flne granular, friable. Cata- 

 logue numl)er, 81172. Gift of R. de Kroustchoff. 



Zamtecds, Mexico. Iron. Weight, 175.3 grams. Found 1792. 



Weight 14.8 grams. Fragment. Catalogue nund^er, 46524. Giftof J. Berrien 

 Lindsay. Fragment with original and etched surfaces. Widmanstiittian figures 

 good. The Shepard Collection, No. 5. 



Zavid, Bosnia, Bohemia, Austria. Stone. Weight, 31 grains. Fell August 1, 1897. 

 Fragment with dull brown crust, (tround mass ash-gray, and containing numer- 

 ous chondri and grains of iron and troilite. Catalogue number, 84741. 



