PALLASITE. 71 



Ilouminncy Creek, Buncombe Co., Norlh CarfAiiui. 



A coarse cellular mass of iiickeliferous iron, with most of tlie ob:-M;rved cells empty 

 but a few containing dull, yellowisli-gray olivine grains. The iron exhibits, on etching, 

 Widmannstiittian figures.* 



Siuf/hur, India. 



The pallasite found at Singhur, Deccan, India, was from a basaltic hill. It i.s 

 described as a vesicular mass of iron, with the cavities either empty or else eontainin" 

 "small, yellowish-white, earthy-looking bodies, about the size of peas" — olivine (?;. 

 No satisfactory analysis of this rock has been raade.f 



Its occurrence is similar to that of the iron from Disco, Greenland, and it may be of 

 like terrestrial origin. 



Forsi/th, Tanejj Co., Missouri. 



A white, sponge-like mass of nickeliferous iron containing greenish olivine, the latter 

 being more abundant than the former.J Specific gravity, 4.46. 



Auderson, TIamilton Co., Ohio. 



This pallasite, which may properly be called the Little Miami meteorite, was found on 

 an altar in one of the earthworks now being explored in Anderson Township, in the Lit- 

 tle Miami Valley, Ohio. This was placed in the hands of Dr. L. P. Kinnicutt, for analy- 

 sis, by Mr. F. W. Putnam, the curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology, into whose 

 possession it had come. The polished surface shows a coarse sponge of iron, holding, 

 according to Dr. Kinnicutt, olivine, bronzite, and an unknown mineral. In the section 

 figured in Dr. Kinnicutt's report, the iron appears to predominate over the silicates, but 

 taking the mass as a whole the two form about equal bulk. In structure it closely 

 resembles the Pallas iron, its olivine grains being as a rule rounded, and not so angular 

 as the Atacama pallasite. The olivine forms the chief portion of the siliceous material. 

 The specific gravity of the mass is 4.72. The etched surfaces show the Widmannstiittian 

 figures. Analyses of the iron and of the olivine were given by Dr. Kinnicutt, and from 

 this a rough approximation is given of the composition of the mass as a whole, on the 

 supposition that the iron and olivine form about equal portions of the mass. Since 

 there was sufficient material it seems a pity that no complete analysis has been made.§ 



KrasnojarsJc, Siberia. 



The Pallas rock is formed by a coarse metallic sponge, whose more or less rounded 

 cavities are filled with olivine. This sponge-like structure, or one approaching it, is 

 characteristic of tlie pallasites, so far as known. No complete analysis of this rock has 

 ever been published that the writer can find, except an old one of Laugier, || in which the 

 iron was estimated as an oxide. 



* Shopard, Am. Jour. Sci., 1S47 (2), iv. 79-82. 

 t Herbert Giraud, Edin. New Phil. Jour., 1849, xlvii. 56, 57. 

 + Shepard, Ain. Jour. Sci., 1860, (2) xxx. 205, 206. 

 § Ann. Rep. Peabody Mus. Am. Arch., 1884. iii. 3Sl-38i. 



II Mem. Acad. St. Peters, 1870 (7) xv.. No. 6, pp. 40. 4 plates. Clark, Metallic Meteorites, lS5l, 

 pp. 15-17. 



