PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 

 VOL. 4, PP. 89-91, PLATE 12. APRIL 15, 1903. 



REED CITY METEORITE. 

 By H. L. Preston. 



(Read before the Academy March 9, 1903.) 



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For the early history of this meteorite I am indebted to Prof. 

 Walter B. Barrows, of the Michigan State Agricultural College, and 

 a clipping written by Prof. Barrows from the M. A. C. Record, pub- 

 lished by the same institution. 



This meteorite, according to Prof. Barrow's statement. Was 

 found by Mr. Ernest Ruppert, a small farmer and junk dealer, on 

 his farm in Osceola County, near Reed City, Michigan, while plow- 

 ing in September, 1895. 



The meteorite was later displayed in a hotel window in Reed 

 City, where Prof. Barrows saw it in December, 1898, and was told 

 there had been a dispute as to the origin of the specimen, some 

 claiming that it was a meteor from the skies, others that it was a 

 lump of ordinary iron. Prof. Barrows saw at a glance from its gen- 

 eral character that it was a genuine meteorite, and at that time made 

 an unsuccessful effort to obtain it for the college museum. Other 

 attempts were equally unsuccessful until recently, when the iron 

 was purchased by the college. 



In January of this year Prof. Henry A. Ward, of Chicago, 

 visited Prof. Barrows to see if he could make arrangements to 

 obtain a portion of the mass for the Ward-Coonley Collection of 

 Meteorites now on deposit in the American Museum of Natural 

 History in New York. In consequence of this visit the mass was 

 sent to Rochester, N. Y., for slicing. 



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