os) 
410 Report on Meteorites. 
in my possession, which exhibits nearly two square inches of nat- 
ural re it would appear that its surface must have been 
marked by very distinct depressions. 'The color within also, re- 
sembles that of the Iowa stone.. The stone consist o 
- Olivinoid, . ‘ . : AO per cent. 
Howardite, af an. = 
Meteoric Iron, 
: Magnetic Pyrites, ; oe 
‘Anorthite, ‘ ‘ . fevak °f 
Apatite in traces. 
8. Weston, ConMecticut. 
For an account of this stone, see Memoirs of the Connecticut 
Vol. ‘iii, p. 213% Amer. Journ. Seicnoe; Vol. xxxvii, p. 130 ; Jour- 
nal de Physique, Vol. xx, p. 429; Die Meteoriten von P. Partsch , 
s. 41, Wien, 1843. 
Its crust is thicker than in the majority of our meteoric stones, 
though less perfectly continuous and well formed,—being rough, 
dull, and filled with crevices. « Its color is brownish black. When 
broken, the interior shows occasional joints, with baence 9 
ngs. e prevailing color within is a dark pearl gray. 
tered through the mass, at frequent intervals, are patches of 
ter color, imparting to it a sub-porphyritic aspect. These 
t portions do not consist of a perfectly homogeneous mine- 
but rather of a semii-pulverulent substance, which is probably 
sing howardite. The main ingredient of the meteorite 
gray (sometimes greenish evay ) mineral, in rounded 
‘grains, appear to be olivinoid. These again are ’ mixed with 
adie imperfectly formed grains of a lighter colored yellowish 
ineral Soe stained by oxyd of iror Z his latter substance 
is is take en for howardite also. Mag an es (less abundant 
than in to stones) is irregularly dissemm in highly tar- 
nished gra 
"Pike nic nic aetna is mo ndant than in any meteoric stone 
yet described, preséntin not only in little points, in 
‘ geet ie and 
; of 
5 
bd ~ 
a 
* The striking analogy external. mag yestenigg meteoric ir 
ly, and bedded masses of. native copper an Id. jlindependeniy of er of te the i 
minutive cases ere re ofe cd to,) suggests ae tee sathat coe them- 
selves have, at some period, been embraced in an mae —_ 
