190 MEMOIRS NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, VOL. XIII. 



There are certain points of these analyses which I am unable, at present, to satisfactorily explain. The insoluble 

 portion may be considered as essentially enstatite and aluminous monoclinic pyroxene and the soluble portion as 

 largely olivine. But the high per cent of iron protoxide (FeO), as well as the lime and alumina in this latter portion, 

 are not easily accounted for. It is possible that the last two elements may be constituents of the colorless undetermined 

 mineral referred to, but the source of the iron protoxide is for the present unexplainable. 



The case is, however, not without precedent, J. Lawrence Smith reporting similar conditions in the Warrenton, 

 Warren County, Missouri, stone which,. however, he allows to pass without comment. 



For purposes of comparison, I give below the analyses of the soluble and insoluble silicate portions of the Felix 

 and Warrenton meteorites: 



Warrenton, Missouri. 



Soluble. Insoluble. 



33. 02 56. 90 



.12 .20 



37. 57 10. 20 



1. 54 



.31 



Tr. 7. 62 



28. 41 22. 41 



. 07 1. 00 



99.34 100.69 101.04 98.33 



The dark color of the rock is undoubtedly due to the carbon it contains, since the amount of iron and troilite, as 



shown by the analyses, is extremely small. More than that, the finely pulverized rock, after prolonged digestion, 



shows a residue of carbon in the form of graphite. 



The stone evidently belongs to Brezina's class of Kiigelchenchondrites and to Meunier's group of Ornansites. 



The meteorite is chiefly preserved in the United States National Museum. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



1. 1901: MERRILL. Proc. U. S, Nat. Mus., vol. 24, pp. 193-198. 



FERGUSON. 



Haywood County, North Carolina. 



Latitude 35 36' N., longitude 83 0' W. 



Stone. 



Fell July 18, 1889; described 1890. 



Weight, 8 ounces (lost). 



All that is known of this meteorite is contained in the following account by Kunz * : 



Mr. W. A. Harrison, of Ferguson, Haywood County, North Carolina, says that about 6 o'clock on the evening of 

 July 18, 1889, he noticed a remarkable noise west of him, and that 15 minutes later he saw something strike the earth 

 which, on examination, proved to be a meteoric stone, so hot that he could scarcely hold it in his hand 5 minutes after 

 it fell. Two-thirds of its bulk was buried in the earth when found. This stone was sent to the writer and was unfor- 

 tunately lost in December in New York City. The stone was slightly oblong, covered with a deep black crust which 

 had been broken at one end, showing a great chondritic structure with occasional specks of iron. Its weight was about 

 8 ounces and it very closely resembled the meteoric stone from Mocs, Transylvania. It remained in the writer's pos- 

 session so short a time that it was not properly investigated, but still the mere mention of a fall which had been so 

 carefully observed is thought to be well worthy of publication. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



1. 1890: KUNZ. Amer. Journ. Sci., 3d ser., vol. 40, p. 320. 



FISHER. 



Polk County, Minnesota. 



Latitude 47 48' N., longitude 96 48' W. 



Stone. Intermediate chondrite, veined (Cia) of Brezina. 



Fell 4 p. m., April 9, 1894; described 1894. 



Weight: Two masses, weight of the larger not known; weight of the smaller, 4 kgs. (9.5 Ibs.). 



The first mention of this meteorite was by Winchell * as follows : 



On April 9, 1894, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon a peculiar rumbling sound startled the people of Fisher in Polk 

 County, in the Red River Valley, northwestern Minnesota. In July of the same year while making hay on a meadow 



