C. U. Shepard on localities of Meteoric Iron. Be ae 
4 Art, XXXIX.— Brief Notices of several localities of Meteorite Iron; 
by CHAarLes UPHAM SHEPARD. 
1. Savisavik, North Greenland. 
THIS ares ee iron F been in my possession upward of two 
years; and ) before describing its locality, to have 
obtained a eel of casbarial fully adequate to its description 
4 and analysis; but not succeeding in this I deem it best to delay | 
roe mstibe of it no longer. i 
y specim ens, consisting merely of a few scales, scarcely 
larger than one’s ‘finger nail, were the gift of John C. Trautwine, 
Hsq., Civil Engineer, of Philad elphia, to whom they had been 
presented by Dr. Hays, the well- known arctic voyager, accom- 
panied by the following note 
. “* * Isend you the fragment of iron (supposed to be me- 
@ teoric) which I promised, It was obtained from an Esquimau 
7 at my winter station of Port Foul, in 1861, who had obtained 
maux seale off fragments with flint stone. 
Yours, etc., i, . Hays,” 
Philadelphia, April 17, 1864. 
This iron is pa ae malleable and remarkably homogeneous, — 
without being much prone to oxydation. Its specific nian by 
pear 
ne little nickel asd tap and 80 ujuah fobeie that it is bees 
and brittle like cast-iron. 
" It is not plain from Dr. Hays’s letter whether this word begins with r 
