250 C. U. Shepard on localities of Meteoric Iron: 
2. Botetourt County, Virginia. 
This iron was discovered more than fifteen years ago in a 
. Manross, who took them with him to Gottingen, 
where in the laboratory of Prof. Wohler he analyzed one of 
them so far as to determine the presence of nickel in the very 
unusually high proportion of more than 20 percent. In the 
860, while Mr. Manross was delivering lectures in this 
college on chemistry, he presented me a little fragment of this 
iron along with the foregoing information; and after his melan- 
choly death at the battle of Antietam, his widow gave me the 
only remaining specimen of it that is known. 
The quantity is too small to justify a further analysis; and I 
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ity =7°64. Fracture fine granular like cast-steel. It does not 
8. Colorado. 
If neither of the two preceding irons are likely to be repre- 
: in our collections, there is certainly a prospect that it will 
be quite otherwise with the mass just discovered upon the east- 
ern slope of the Sierre Madre Range of the Rocky Mocntaiie. 
_For my acquaintance with this discovery I am indebted to the 
kindness of Mr. J. Alden Smith, a practical mineralogist, at 
present residing in Colorado. This gentleman has transmitted 
to me by mail a very interesting cleavage lamina, 14 inches long 
yy gths of an inch wide and ith thick, and which shows on one 
ge a portion of the natural coating of the meteorite. His let- 
until his return to the east in the coming autumn. By means 
of the promised specimens he expects to bring with him on his 
return, I hope to be able to give a more circumstantial account 
of the discovery. 
The detection of the mass, and which has occurred only within 
