1887.] NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 71 



Mr. B. B. Chamberlin showed a specimen of pyrifce changed 

 into limonite, from Mott Haven, New York City. 



Mr. William E. Hidden read a paper 



ON AN IRON meteorite THAT FELL AT MAZAPIL, MEXICO, 

 DURING THE DISPLAY OF^'BIELID" METEORS, NOVEMBER 

 27th, 1885, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF ITS FALL, BY PrOF. JoSE 

 A. Y BONILLA, DIRECTOR OF THE ZACATECAS OBSERVATORY. 



(Published in the Annals, Vol. IV.) 



The meteorite was exhibited. 



The subject of the paper, and meteors in general, were discussed 

 at length by Prof. J. K. Eees, Prof. W. P. Trowbridge, the 

 President, and the author of the paper. President New- 

 berry also exhibited some stone meteorites. 



Mr. George F. Kunz stated that he had recently acquired an 

 ■eighty-pound mass of 



[meteoric iron from CARROLL CO., KENTUCKY, 



which was largely transparent olivine, and apparently identical 

 with the small masses found by Prof. Putnam in the Little Miami 

 mounds. Altogether four specimens of this character were 

 known, which might possibly be fragments of the same meteor. 

 In the spring of 1883, Professor F. W. Putnam found on the 

 altar of mound No. 3 of the Turner group of mounds in the 

 Little Miami Valley, Ohio, several ear ornaments made of iron 

 (see Fig. 1),' and several others overlaid with iron. "With these 

 were also found a number of separate pieces that were thought 

 to be iron. They were covered with cinders, charcoal, pearls 

 (two bushels were found in this group of mounds), and other 

 material, cemented by an oxide of iron, showing that the 

 pieces had been subjected to a high temperature. On remov- 

 ing the scale. Dr. Kenuicutt found they were made of iron of 

 meteoric origin.' One of the pieces weighed 28 and another 52 

 grams. 



■ I am indebted to Professor Putnam for the cuts from which 

 figs. 1 and 4 are printed, as also for information kindly furnished me. 

 ' 16-17 Report of Peabody Museum of Archaeology, p. 382. 



