Reviews — Some Recorded Falls of Meteorites. 221 



The second part of the hook consists of the catalogue of the 

 collection of meteorites in the United States Museum. At the date 

 of publication it contained specimens representing 329 falls and 

 finds, but in addition it has been enriched by Dr. C. TJ. Shepard's 

 bequest, after his death in 1915, of the meteorite collection 

 brought together by his father, the late Professor C. U. Shepard, 

 one of the earliest American mineralogists. The latter collection had 

 been deposited in the Museum on loan for some years ; it comprises 

 234 falls and finds, of which 83 were not represented in the general 

 collection. The total number of falls and finds therefore represented 

 in the Museum is 412. The present catalogue succeeds two others, 

 the one written by Dr. E. W. Clarke in 1889 and the other by 

 Mr. Wirt Tassin in 1902. Since they were compiled the entire 

 collection has been re-arranged independent of the mineral collection, 

 of which it had formerly been considered a part, and is now treated 

 as belonging more properly to petrology. The arrangement of the 

 catalogue is alphabetical under the names of the falls and finds, the 

 names being nearly always derived fi'om the locality. Under each 

 entry are given the group in the system of classification to which the 

 meteorite may be assigned, a description of the specimen in the 

 collection, particulars of the fall, and other details, if known, such 

 as the chemical composition, and at the close a reference to the 

 literature from which the abstract has been compiled. For fuller 

 information the reader is referred to Wiilfing's Die Meteoriten in 

 Sammlungen and ihre Literatur. The Shepard Collection is catalogued 

 separately. 



The book is certainly one that should be in the hands of all 

 interested in the subject of those strange wanderers from cosmical 

 space which have survived their fiery rush through the atmospheric 

 envelope protecting the earth from constant bombardment. 



III. —A RECENTLY FOUND IRON METEORITE PROM CoOKEVILLE, PUTNAM 



County, Tennessee. By George P. Merrill. Proc. United 

 States National Museum, vol. li, pp. 325-6, pi. xxviii, 1916. 



rpHIS meteorite, which was found in 1913, is evidently very old 

 1 because it was badly weathered. Its weight before cutting was 

 2,132 grams. It is made up of broad bands of kamacite, between 

 which lie thin plates of tsenite. Analysis shows the percentage 

 composition to be mainly : nickel 6, iron 61, and iron oxide 28. 

 The meteorite is in the possession of Ward's Natural Science 

 Establishment. 



IV. — Notes on the Whitfield County, Georgia, Meteoric Irons, 

 with new Analyses. By George P. Merrill. Proc. United 

 States National Museum, vol. li, pp. 447-9, pi. lxxviii, 1916. 



IN 1881, in the American Journal of Science, W. E. Hidden described 

 an iron meteorite from Whitfield County, but gave no analysis. 

 In 1883 C. U. Shepard described a larger mass, weighing 1171b., 

 from near Dalton in the same county. In 1887 George P. Kunz 

 suggested that the East Tennessee (Cleveland) iron might be identical 



