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SCOTT. 



Scott County, Kansas. 



Stone. 



Found 1905; described 1906. 



Weight, 136 grams. 



This meteorite was described by Merrill x as follows: 



Together with the samples of Modoc meteorite forwarded, Mr. Freed included two small pebblelike masses which 

 had been found by his boy and which it was thought might possibly be also of meteoric origin. One of these was of 

 ferruginous quartzite. The other, some 40 by 60 mm. in greatest diameter, and weighing 135 grams, proved to be 

 meteoric. This, although weathered to a dull rusty brown on the surface, still showed distinctly the usual pittings, 

 and on a polished surface presented a dull dark-gray ground thickly spotted with small points of metallic iron and 

 occasional rounded areas recognized with the unaided eye as chondrules. Under the microscope this is found to consist 

 of an extremely fine tufaceous ground carrying large clear olivines in single crystals and scattered aggregates and 

 numerous chondri of olivine and enstatite. The olivine chondri are in part polysomatic and in part of the common 

 barred or gratelike character. The enstatite chondri are most commonly in radiate forms. The entire structure and 

 even the identity of some of the mineral constituents are much obscured by iron oxides which have stained the mass 

 an ocherous red throughout. The metallic constituents are much more abundant than in the Modoc stone named above. 



Although differing somewhat from Washington's description and my own studies on the meteorite of Jerome in the 

 adjoining county of Gove, the differences are BO slight as to be seemingly nonessential, and I am inclined to regard this 

 as a straggler from the Jerome fall which, it will be remembered, was found on April 10, 1894, on the Smoky Hill River 

 and has been described in detail by Doctor Washington. There is, however, a chance for a difference of opinion on 

 this subject. 



Although Merrill is inclined to class this meteorite with Jerome, in the view of the present 

 writer it should be regarded as an independent fall, since the place of find of the Jerome 

 meteorite was 40 miles away. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



1. 1906: MERRILL. On a new stony meteorite from Modoc, Scott County, Kansas. Amer. Journ. Sci., 4th ser., vol. 

 21, p. 360. 



SCOTTSVTLLE. 



Allen County, Kentucky. 



Latitude 36 43' N., longitude 86 6' W. 



Iron. Hexahedrite (H) of Brezina; Braunite (type 3) of Meunier. 



Found 1867; described 1887. 



Weight, 10 kgs. (22 Ibs.). 



The first account given of this meteorite was by Whitfield, 1 as follows: 



This meteorite was found about the middle of June, 1867, by Mr. Jas. H. More, while hoeing tobacco, near Scotts- 

 ville, Allen County, Kentucky. In shape it resembles a wedge, the thickness at base being 14 cm., width 18 cm., and 

 length 16 cm., the mass as found weighing a little more than 10 kgs., and having the characteristic pitted surface. A 

 section shows nodules of troilite, varying in diameter from barely visible points to about 12 mm. The markings on 

 an etched surface are exceedingly fine and require the aid of a lens to distinguish them. There appear to be two sets of 

 figures, one of long, very fine lines representing octahedral cleavage, the other series being smaller, more crowded, and 

 barely perceptible. 



An analysis gave the following composition: 



Fe Ni Co S P C 



94.32 5.01 trace 0.34 0.16 0.12 =99.95 



Specific gravity, 9.848. 



This iron, as regards markings and general appearance of section, resembles the Scriba and Salt River meteorites 

 more nearly than any others represented in the U. S. National Museum collection; but as no complete analyses of these 

 two irons are at hand the chemical comparison can not well be made. The percentage of iron appears rather high, 

 but duplicate determinations gave corresponding figures. The material for analysis was received by Professor Clarke 

 from Messrs. Ward and Howell, of Rochester, New York, to whom we are indebted for the privilege of description. 



