78 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Kopple, Pauline. New York 



Carved w^ooden crucifix i 



Schmits 



Baskets 3 



Nicholson, A. S. Neopit, Wis. 



Bark house i 



Bradly, E. R. Cazenovia 



Grooved shaft stone -. i 



Collection in the field 

 Parker, A. C. 



Algonquin bark hamper i 



Brass medal i 



Wooden spoons 2 



Seneca mask i 



Stone hatchet i 



THE MOUNT MORRIS METEORITE 



BY H. P. WHITLOCK 



The State Museum has recently acquired by purchase a 

 meteoric fragment which represents a hitherto unrecorded fall, 

 and adds another occurrence to the small number of authenti- 

 cated meteorites from New York State. 



The specimen was found in December 1897 by Mr Frederick 

 H. Crofoot, on the Landers farm about one and one-half miles 

 south of Mount Morris, Livingston county, N. Y. It measures 

 30 mm X 20 mm x 13 mm and weighs 12.48 grams. The shape 

 roughly suggests a rhomboidal solid similar to a distorted 

 rhombic-dodecahedron, although this rough shape has in all 

 probability no significance and is purely accidental. One side 

 has been roughly polished, showing the structure. 



The structure classification which was determined as nearly 

 as possible macroscopically, places this meteorite in the group 

 Chondrites, the ground mass being composed of spherulitic chon- 

 drules of enstatite and olivine of irregular sizes. The ground mass 

 is broken by irregular shotlike grains of iron. 



Notwithstanding the small size of the specimen, all the evi- 

 dence appears to confirm the statement of Mr Crofoot that the 

 present fragment represents the entire bulk of this fall. 



