1896. | NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 191 
The last paper of the evening by Messrs. L. M. Luquer and 
H. Ries described an area of Augen-gneiss near Bedford, N. Y. 
It was read by Mr. Luquer and will appear in full in the TRAnNs- 
Actions. The gneiss appears to have been originally a granitic 
rock that has been extensively crushed and sheared out into 
the“augen” structure. The original quartz has been mostly com- 
minuted, but the Carlsbad twins of orthoclase have remained 
as “augen.” The paper will appear in the American Geologist. 
The paper was discussed by Dr. E. O. Hovey, who cited the 
case of the sheared Eisenach quartz-porphyry, in which the feld- 
spars have been crushed, but the quartzes have been drawn out. 
Mr. G. F. Kunz mentioned the following items as the meeting 
closed. 
A meteoric stone weighing 31 ounces was seen to fall by Mr. 
J. F. Black, April 9th, 1896, at 6:15 P. M., on his farm nine 
miles east and one mile north of Ottawa, Kansas. This meteor- 
ite contains iron particles throughout and is of the characteristic 
stony variety. 
A remarkable nugget of native silver, weighing 448 ounces 
troy, was lately found five miles from Globe City, Pinal county, 
Arizona. The mass is a water-worn nugget, slightly oval, very 
compact, and on its surface is bright silver-white, showing that 
it is made up of strings of crystallized silver, whereas the inte- 
rior of the mass contains more or less cerargyrite. It has been 
presented to the Lea collection of American minerals of the 
United States National Museum. 
New Zealand promises, mineralogically, to be a country of 
surprises, as many interesting things are gradually being brought 
to light by the agate hunters from Oberstein, Germany, who are 
visiting it. Recently they have discovered some immense masses 
of rolled, rutilated quartz, weighing from ten to thirty pounds 
each. The masses are penetrated by crystals of rutile, red, 
brown and yellow, many inches in length and of the fineness of 
hair. Occasionally the rutiles occur very sparingly; then again 
they are in such profusion as to give the entire mass the appear- 
