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be preferable. The locality of Adargas seems uncertain and the various accounts given by 

 Urquidi indicate that none of them are based on positive evidence. 



The main mass of the meteorite is now preserved in the School of Mines of the City of 

 Mexico. A few hundred grams are distributed among collections, Vienna and Ward possessing 

 the largest pieces. The distribution is, however, slight. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



1. 1625: PurchaS his Pilgrines in five bookes etc., London, 1625; Fourth part: The Eighth booke, Chap. Ill, pp. 1565- 



1567. 



2. 1854: BARTLETT. Personal Narrative of Explorations in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua. 



New York, 1854, vol. 2, p. 457. 



3. 1855: SMITH. Memoir on meteorites: Amer. Joum. ScL, 2d ser., vol. 19, pp. 160 and 163. 



See also Original Researches, 1SS4, pp. 378-379. 



4. 1856: BURKABT. Fundorte I. Neuee Jahrb, 1856, pp. 280-281. 



5. 1857: PIETBO GARCIA CONTE. Boletin de la Sociedad Mexicans de Geog. y Estad, Prima epoca, Mexico, 1857, 



Bd. 5, p. 251. 



6. 1858: BtJRKAHT. Fundorte II. Neues Jahrb, 1858, pp. 770 and 772. 



7. 1865: COXOLLY. Smithsonian Report for 1865, p. 124. 



8. 1866: BCRKART. Fundorte III. Neues Jahrb, 1866, p. 408. 



9. 1868: SIMSON. Smithsonian Report for 1867, p. 472. 



10. 1870: BCRKART. Fundorte IV. Neues Jahrb, 1870, p. 691. 



11. 1871: BUREART. Briefl. Mitt., Neues Jahrb, 1871, p. 852-854. 



12. 1871: URQUIDI. Boletin de la Sociedad Mexicana de Geog. y Estad, Segunda e'poca, Mexico, 1871, Bd. 3, p. 275. 



13. 1872: UHGLKDI. On the Meteorites of the Hacienda "La Concepcion and San Gregorio." Amer. Joum. Sci., 3d 



ser., vol. 3, pp. 207-208. 



14. 1876: BARCENA. Proc. Acad. Nat. Hist. Philadelphia, 1876, p. 122. 



15. 1879: RASLMELSBERG. Meteoriten, p. 31. , 



16. 1880: McSos LUKBIER. Los Aer61itos de Chihuahua, Mexico, 1880, pp. 16 and 17. 



17. 1884: MEUNIER. Meteorites, p. 441. 



IS. 1884: VOM RATH. Meteoriten. Verhandl. Naturhist. Verein Bonn (Sitzber.), Bd. 41, p. 126. 



19. 1885: BREZIXA. Wiener Sammlung, pp. 221 and 234. 



20. 1889: CASTILLO. Catalogue, p. 6-7. 



21. 1890: FLETCHER. Mexican Meteorites. Mineral Mag., vol. 9, pp. 122, 123, 124, 127-128, 131, 139, 140-144, 150 



and 151-152. 



22. 1890: B^EZINA. Reise. Ann. K. K. Naturhist, Hofmus, Wien, Bd. 4 (Not), p. 117. 



23. 1895: BREZINA. Wiener Sammlung, pp. 269, 272, 273, 275, and 298. 



24. 1897. WULFING. Die Meteoriten in Sammlungen, pp. 151-152. 



ADMIRE. 



Lyon County, Kansas. 



Latitude 38 3(K N., longitude 96 2y W. 



Iron-stone. Pallasite. Rokicky group (Pr) of Brezina. 



Found 1861; described 1902. 



Known weight, 30 kgs. (66 Ibs.). Weight of several masses not recorded. 



This meteorite was first described by Merrill * as follows: 



The first piece of this meteorite was plowed up about 1881 by Mr. W. Davis, of Admire, Kansas, the original mass 

 weighing some 12 or 15 pounds. This was all broken up and lost, except some 432 grams. Later finds were made as 

 follows: 



On casual inspection the masses have the appearance of ordinary limonite segregations and do not suggest meteoric 

 origin. The specimens are deeply fissured and weathering has produced extensive alterations in the metallic portion 

 of the rock. Lawrenceite was the first to yield, and following this, troilite and native iron, leaving the schreibersite 

 standing in relief and quite conspicuous. 



The first product of oxidation is a highly lustrous on polished surfaces, blue material which crushes down 

 readily to a fine magnetic powder. On further exposure this goes over into ordinary limonite. Where oxidation has 



