86 MEMOIRS NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, VOL. XIII. 



Brezina le in 1885 groups Burlington with Trenton. He gives the width of the lamellae as 

 1.2 mm. and states that they are strongly swollen. 



Meunier " describes Burlington as a very peculiar iron which yields singular etching 

 figures. The tsenite lies in a mass composed principally of braunine, in singularly irregular 

 patches. The crevices are filled with a carboniferous black substance. Braunine includes 

 fine specks of schreibersite. On dissolving in chlorhydric acid the iron gives off a noticeable 

 odor of hydrogen sulphide. 



Brezina 1S in 1895 says: 



A piece cut from the end shows the natural surface to be composed of angular, octahedral planes; upon the section 

 surface are seen not very straight, somewhat grouped, very puffy bands with well-developed tsenite. The fields are 

 inconspicuous, plessite more noticeable; kamacite and plessite conspicuously spotted. 



The meteorite is distributed, Wiilfing listing 4867 grams. Washington possesses 1,528 

 grams and New Haven 738 grams. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



1. 1844: SILLIMAN. Analysis ofmeteoric iron from Burlington, Otsego County, New York. Amer. Journ. Sci., 1st 



ser., vol. 46, pp. 401-403. (Analysis by Rockwell.) 



2. 1846: SHEPAKD. Report on meteorites. Amer. Journ. Sci., 2d ser., vol. 2, p. 382. 



3. 1847:.SHEPARD. Report on meteorites. Amer. Journ. Sci., 2d ser., vol. 4, pp. 77-78. (Illustration.) 



4. 1852: CLARK. Dissert. GottLngen, pp. 61-62. 



5. 1852: WOHLER. Ann. Phys. und Chem., Poggendorff, Bd. 85, p. 449. 



6. 1853: SHEPARD. Potassium in the meteoric iron of Ruffs Mountain, South Carolina. Amer. Journ Sci., 2d 



ser., vol. 15, p. 6. 



7. 1860: HAIDINGER. Ueber das von Herrn Dr. J. Auerbach in Moskau entdeckte Meteoreisen von Tula. Sitzber. 



Wien. Akad., Bd. 42, p. 512. (Comparison with Burlington.) 



8. 1860: RAMMELSBERG. Mineralchemie, pp. 914-915. 



9. 1858-1862: VON REICHENBACH. No. 4, p. 638; No. 6, pp. 448 and 452; No. 7, p. 551; No. 9, pp. 162, 174, 181; 



No. 10, pp. 359, 365; No. 12, p. 457; No. 13, p. 363; No. 15, pp. 100, 110, 114, 124, 126; No. 16, pp. 255, 256, 

 261, 262; No. 17, pp. 264, 266, 272; No. 18, pp. 484, 487; No. 19, pp. 150, 154, 155; No. 20, pp. 622, 628; No. 

 21, p. 589. 



10. 1863: BUCHNER. Meteoriten, pp. 170-171. 



11. 1863: ROSE. Meteoriten, pp. 26, 27, 64, and 152. 



12. 1869: MEUNIER. Recherches. Ann. Chim. Phys., 4th ser., vol. 17, pp. 35 and 72. 



13. 1870: RAMMELSBERG. Meteoriten, p. 80. 



14. 1872: QUENSTEDT. Klar und Wahr, p. 314. (Illustration of etching.) 



15. 1884: MEUNIER. M6t&>rites, pp. 51, 99, and 133. (Illustration.) 



16. 1885: BREZINA. Wiener Sammlung, pp. 211-212, and 234. 



17. 1893: MEUNIER. Revision des fers m6t6oriques, pp. 49 and 50. (Illustration of etching.) 



18. 1895: BREZINA. Wiener Sammlung, p. 276. 



Butcher Iron. See Coahuila. 



BUTLER. 



Bates County, Missouri. 



Here also Bates County. 



Latitude 38 15' N., longitude 94 18' W. 



Iron. Finest octahedrite (Off) of Brezina; Jeknite (type 11) of Meunier. 



Found 1874; described 1875. 



Weight, 36 kgs. (80 Ibs.). 



This iron meteorite is described by Broadhead l as "ploughed up in a field by a man named 

 Abram Crabbe, living 8 miles southwest of Butler, Bates County, Missouri. For a long time 

 it remained scarcely noticed by the finder, but at last, thinking it rather heavy, he brought it 

 into Butler and left it at a blacksmith shop. 



Its total weight was a little less than 90 pounds, and it was a rough looking, rather irregular 

 mass, somewhat pitted over the surface. 



The surface had a thick coat of rust, the metal was very tough, and in section showed 

 numerous nodules of troilite free from any schreibersite. The Widmannstatten figures were 

 easily developed, and were large and regular. 



