294 EEPOET— 1881. 



1877. — Casey County, Georgia. * 



A fragment of this iron in the Vienna Collection is stated by the writer 

 to exhibit broad and very regular Widmanstiittian figures. The beam-iron 

 averages 2 mm. across ; this iron is almost exclusively developed, with 

 Tinnsually sharp lines of etching. Band and interstitial iron are only 

 present in traces, and schreibersite and troilite are not recognisable. 



2 



I^IS. -^Whitfield County, Georgia. 



A fragment in the shape of a wedge was found to exhibit Widman- 

 stattian figures of average size, which in certain places by the massive 

 development of schreibersite were broken through : the band-iron is of 

 average breadth, the interstitial iron distinguished by its unusual dark 

 colour. In many places the magnetite fills partings which penetrate from 

 the natural surface to a depth of 2 to 3 centimetres into the iron. 



1879, November Atli. — Kalumhi, Wayee (Wai, Jaluca"), Sattara, 

 Presidency of Bombay, India.^ 



Brezina records the presentation to the Vienna Collection of a piece 

 of a meteorite weighing 165 grammes by Mr. M. Wood, of the Bombay 

 Bi'anch of the Royal Asiatic Society. The fall occurred at the above 

 place and date, and the stone has the form of a four-sided wedge, with a 

 nearly square base. Its weight is 10| lbs. and 197 grains, and its density 

 is 3 "45. According to an incomplete analysis 58" 75 per cent, was in- 

 soluble in hydrogen-chloride (consisting of silicates, and the silicic acid 

 of the decomposed portion), and, in addition, there was ii"on oxide, or 

 rather iron protoxide with alumina 27*62, nickel 1'56, lime 0'83, and 

 magnesia 11'88 per cent. The meteorite resembles Forsyth, has a bright 

 yellowish ground-mass ; the chondra ai'e firmly enclosed in the ground- 

 mass, and for the most part white and felspathic. This stone is to be 

 classed with the white chondrites. 



1880 {early in). — Colorado Basin, Ivanpah, Soidheni California.''' 



This block of iron was found in the Colorado Basin, within eight miles 

 of Ivanpah, which is about 200 miles north-east of San Bernardino in 

 Southern California, by a Mr. Goddard, who while crossing a wash had 

 his attention arrested by a singular-looking boulder. The block is oval 

 in shape, having a side somewhat flattened ; its surface is covered with 

 depressions and dents, as if it had been pelted all over with pebbles while 

 soft or plastic. These concavities are from 1 to 4 inches across, and, in 

 addition, there are three round holes an inch deep, as if made by the little 

 finger. The mass is supposed to weigh 120 lbs., and it is 14 inches long, 

 9 inches broad, and 7 inches deep. The examination of a fragment shows 

 it to be highly crystalline, requiring no etching to reveal the Widman- 

 stattian figures ; the cleavage appears to be octahedral. The schreibersite 

 is very thin, and, according to Shepard, of two kinds : one in flat leaves, 

 the other in wavy semi- cylinders or irregular prisms ; the latter, he says, 



1 A. Brezina, Sitzler. Ahad. Wiss. 1880, Ixxxii. Oct. -Heft. 



« Ibid. 3 Ibid. 



< C. U. Shepard, Amcr. Jom. So. 1880. xix. 381. 



