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Br. Walter Flight — On Meteorites. 





Olivine 



Bronzite 

 and 



Auffite 



Magnetic 

 Pyi-ites 



Nickel- 



Total 



Total 







Enstatite 





u-on 



Calculated 

 40-73 



Analysis 



SiOs 



13-99 



18-84 



7-90 











40-23 



AI2O3 . .. 



— 



— 



2-09 



— 



— 



2-09 



1-93 



FeO 



13-86 



5-47 



0-73 







— 



20-06 



19-80 



MgO 



10-94 



9'53 



0-61 



— 



— 



21-08 



20'55 



CaO 



— 



— 



1-42 



— 



— 



1-42 



1-54 



NasO 



— 



— 



1-26 



— 



— 



1-26 



1-53 



Fe 



— 



— 



— 



2-46 



7-97 



10-43 



10-26 



Ni ... 



— 















1-31 



1-31 



1-31 



S 



— 



— 



— 



1-62 



— 



1-62 



1-65 







38-79 



33-84 



1401 



4-08 



9-28 



100-00 



98-80 



Olivine 



Bronzite and enstatite ... 



Augite 



Magnetic pyrites 



Nickel-iron 



38-79 



33-84 



14-01 



4-08 



9-28 



100-00 



1878.— Whitfield County, Georgia.' 

 A fragment in tlae shape of a wedge was found to exhibit Wid- 

 manstattian 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, May 10, 5 p.m.— Estherville, Emmet Co., lowa.^ 



This curious meteorite fell near Estherville in lat. 43° 30' N.> 

 long. 94° 50' W., within that region of the United States which has 

 been remarkable for falls of meteorites, three having fallen atEochester 

 in Indiana, Cynthiana in Kentucky, and Warrington in Missouri, 

 within the space of a month. The phenomena attending this fall 

 were of the usual character, but on a grander scale. It occurred 

 about five o'clock in the afternoon of May 10, 1879, with the sun 

 shining brightly. In some places the meteorite was jDlainly visible 

 in its passage through the air, and looked like a ball of fire with a 

 long train of vapour or cloud of fire behind it ; and one observer saw 

 it one hundred miles from where it fell. Its course was from N.W. to 

 S.E. The sounds produced in its course are described as being 

 "terrible" and "indescribable," at first louder than the loudest 

 artillery, followed by a rumbling noise, as of a train of cars crossing 

 a bridge. Two persons were within two or three hundred yards of 

 the spots where the two larger masses struck the earth. There were 

 distinctly two explosions : the first took place at a considerable height 

 in the atmosphere, and several fragments were projected to different 

 points Over an area of four square miles, the largest going farthest to 



V A. Brezina. Sitzber. Akad. TFiss. 1880, Ixxxii. Oct. part. 



^ J. L. Smith. Amer. Jour. Sc. June, 1880, xix. 459. 



