PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



VOL. 4, PP. 65-66, PLATE 1. NOVEMBER 26, 1901. 



THE ST. GENEVIEVE METEORITE. 



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Hv Henry A. Ward. BOTANICAL 



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The State of Missouri has furnished to science eight meteorites, 

 of which two are aerolites, one is a siderolite, and five are siderites. 

 They ha\'e been found in eight different counties and all of them are 

 from the southern half of the state. 



The first to appear was Little Piney, called after the stream of that 

 name in Pulaski county. It fell in 1839. Cape Girardeau fell in 1846. 

 Both these were aerolites. The irons were all found, not seen to fall. 

 One of them followed in each decade until 1888. This latest iron, the 

 subject of the present paper, was discovered in the autumn of 1888 in 

 the extreme western portion of St. Genevieve county, at a point about 

 one mile west of Punjaub, a little hamlet no longer existing. We have 

 decided, in the lack of closer possible location, to give it the name of 

 its county, whose county-seat of the same name lies some 15 miles to 

 the eastward. It was found by Mr. Zeb. Murphy, a surveyor, who 

 retained it in his possession for several years, showing it at county fairs, 

 etc. It was subsequently bought from Mr. Murphy by Mr. F. P. 

 Graves, the Secretary and Assistant Superintendent of the Doe Run 

 Lead Co., whose headquarters are in the town of Doe Run, Mo. Mr. 

 Graves has been a life-long collector of the minerals in this part of 

 Missouri, and this St. Genevieve meteorite has been for some years 

 past a crowning piece in his fine cabinet. From him it was obtained 

 by the present writer in January of last year. 



The shape of the St. Genevieve siderite is an elongated spheroid, 

 considerably flattened upon one side, with a rudely crescent-shaped, 

 shallow depression in its middle part. (See plate i.) Its greatest 

 length is 20 inches; its two other dimensions are each 15^ inches. 

 Its w eight, when I first obtained it, before any part had been cut from 

 it, was 539 pounds. 



