No. 8.] BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CONNECTICUT GEOLOGY. 6l 



260. Silliman, B. 



Sketch of the mineralogy of the town of New Haven. 

 Connecticut Acad. Arts Sci., Mem., i, 83-96, 1810. 



Description of the various geological features of New Haven and its 

 immediate vicinity — sand plain (made from material worn from the 

 surrounding hills); various elevations surrounding the town, both trap, 

 sandstone, and crystallines ("micaceous schistus, magnesian schistus"). 



(The above article was written in 1806. — Ed.) 



261. Silliman, B., and Kingsley, J. L. 



An account of the meteor, which burst over Weston, in 

 Connecticut, in December, 1807, and of the falling of 

 stones on that occasion, with a chemical analysis of the 

 stones. 



Connecticut Acad. Arts. Sci., Mem., i, pp. i, 141-161, 

 1810. 



Published earlier in the Connecticut Herald and in Trans. 

 Am. Phil. Soc. of Philadelphia, 1808. 



Accounts by Nathan Wheeler, Elihu Staples, and others who wit- 

 nessed the fall. Original meteor 300 feet in diameter fell in frag- 

 ments at si-x localities, the most remote being ten miles apart. De- 

 scription is given of the stone at large; the pyrites; the malleable iron; 

 the black irregular masses; the crust; the globular bodies. The analy- 

 sis showed silex 51.5; chloride of iron 38; magnesia 13; oxide of nickel 

 1.5; sulphur I. 



(This is the first description of an American meteorite in which the 

 phenomena of the fall and the composition of the rock are given. Frag- 

 ments of this meteor are in Yale University museum. — Ed.) 



262. Silliman, B. 



Mineralogical and geological observations on New Ha- 

 ven and its vicinity. 



Am. Min. Jour., i, 139-149, 1814. Abstract: Jour. Phys. 

 Chim., Ixxv, 75-79, 1812; Am. Jour. Sci., (i) i, 55-56, 1818; 

 Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology, Cleaveland, 555, 

 1822. 



The following geological matters are discussed: Alluvial plain, sand- 

 stone, granite; " East and West mountains," Pine Rock, of greenstone; 

 slate of West Haven; magnetic sand on the beach; serpentine; lime- 

 stone. 



263. Silliman, B. 



Localities of mineral and animal remains and acknowl- 

 edgment of specimens received. 



Am. Jour. Sci., (i) i, 237-243. 1819. 



Mention of rose quartz from Southbury; plumbago from Cornwall; 

 coal from Suffield and Southington; sulphate of barytes, with coal, etc.; 

 molybdena from Pettipaug, Saybrook; beryl from Haddam. 



