10 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
The Selma, as this meteorite will be called, is 204 inches high, 20 
inches wide and 14 inches thick, and it weighs 306 pounds (138.6 kilos). 
A piece of perhaps four pounds weight has been lost from the mass, 
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THE SELMA METEORITE 
Rear view. 
hence it is probable that the original weight was 310 pounds. It has 
lain buried in the ground where it fell for several years, so that the 
original glassy crust has been largely decomposed and washed away, 
and the characteristic “thumb-mark”’ pittings have been partly obscured. 
Some portions, however, remain as an indication of its original condi- 
