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ably dropped out. All of the original crust has disappeared. 

 The mass is largely made up of fine yellow, transparent olivine, 

 resembling closely that of the famous Pallas iron. This meteor- 



FiG. 3.— Sections of the Carroll County Meteorite. Natural size. 



ite belongs to the siderolites or "syssideres" of Daubree, and 

 the Pallasite group. 



Figure 3 shows three sections of the Carroll County mass, the 

 light portions representing the iron and the dark portions the 



Fig. 4.— Section of the iron from the Turner Mounds 



olivine. Figure 4 shows a similar section made by Dr. L. Ken- 

 nicutt, of the Turner Mound mass. The specific gravities of the 

 three sections figured are given below, with those of the Ata- 

 cama and Turner's Mound meteorites. 



