1890.] 



NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



187 



Several years ago, Mr. Davis, a lawyer at Greensburg, identi- 

 fied these as meteorites; and although the farmers had thus 

 known the fact for a long time, yet, strange to say, no impor- 

 tance was attached to them until Mrs. Kimberly applied to Prof. 

 F. W. Cragin, of Washburn University, in the early part of last 

 spring. It was not until the 13th of March that Prof. Cragin 

 secured four of these masses. 



They were nearly all found by being struck by mowing- 

 machines, ploughshares, corn-cultivators, or other farm imple- 



SOUTH 



KANIffi la. RANGE 17. 



Fig. 2.— Brenham Township. 



ments. Over twenty distinct masses have been reported; but it 

 is very evident, from the weight and other facts, that some have 

 been noted several times over. 



The townships are reckoned from the base-line, the 40th 

 parallel; and the ranges, from the 6th princij^al meridian, 

 which crosses Kansas about longitude 97° 30' W. of Greenwich. 



Brenham Township [27] (Fig. 2) is made up of thirty-six 

 sections, each one mile square, numbering from No. 1 to No. 36. 

 The meteorites seem to have covered an area over one mile in 

 length. Some of tliem fell on the east half of the northwest 



