212 Br. Walter Flight—On Meteorites. 



guishing pavallel with the strige. 6. Quartz, interstitial in large 

 quantity running in irregular bands through the section. It fre- 

 quently had the broken-up appearance of quartz in •' Schriftgranit." 

 Minute fluid lacunae with fixed and mobile bubbles. The high per- 

 centage of silica in Mr. Ward's analysis is hereby easily accounted 

 for. 7. Magnetite in large crystals and irregular grains, 8. Apatite. 

 A few colourless grains with regular outline agreed with the micro- 

 scopic appearance of this mineral. A chemical test revealed the 

 presence of phosphoric acid. Olivine was not observed. 



With exception of the serpentinized portions, the number and size 

 of the fragments of the oblique diallage preponderated to such an 

 extent over anything that might be construed as hypersthene that 

 the rock from which our specimen was taken seems undoubtedly to 

 be a gabbro and not a hypersthenite. The question of the existence 

 of the latter in the Carrock Fell district cannot, however, be I'e- 

 garded as solved, until a more extended examination has been made 

 of the different occurrences of this interesting; rock. 



IV. — Supplement to a Chapter in the History of Meteorites. 

 Ey Walter Flight, D.Sc, F.G.S. 



{^Continued from p. 170.) 



1877, January 3rd (Sunrise). — Warrenton, State of Missouri. 

 [Lat. 38° 50' ; Long. 91° 10^] ^ 



A sound like that of a cannon ball passing through the air was 

 heard by four observers near Warrenton. On looking up they saw 

 an object falling, which struck a tree, breaking off the limbs, and 

 then coming to the ground with a crash. The observers were fifty 

 or sixty metres distant from the spot where it fell. The snow was 

 melted where it fell. From the fragments found, it appears to have 

 had a conical form, and to have been about eighteen inches in length. 

 The pieces, although warm, were easily handled. It is estimated 

 that the stone weighed about one hundred pounds, but only about 

 from ten to fifteen pounds weight have been preserved. 



In one specimen the fibres of some of the branches are found 

 adhering to the rough crust of the stone, and these delicate fibres 

 show not the slightest sign of having been heated. No luminous 

 phenomena attended the fall, which appears to have been slow ; 

 " it was no doubt a meteorite well spent in its rapid motion through 

 the atmosphere." Its direction, as far as it could be ascertained, 

 was from N.W. to S.E. 



The stone differs in a marked degree from the one just described, 

 although it also is pisolitic and fell only a few days previously. It 

 closely resembles the Ornans meteorite, which fell 11th July, 1868, 

 and the results of Dr. Smith's analysis closely accord with those 

 found by Pisani " on analyzing that stone. 



The crust in this case is unusually thick, being in some places 

 from two and a half to three and a half millimetres in thickness. 



1 J. L. Smith, Amer. Jour. Sc. 1877. xiii. 243; and xiv. 222. 



2 Votnpt. rend. 1868, Ixvii. 663. 



