208 C. U. Shepard on Meteorites. 
I will-only offer a few remarks upon the relationship of the Ohio 
meteorites to those of other falls. In its internal aspect it ap- 
proaches the stone of Jekaterinoslaw, Russia (1825), though it 
pearl grey peridot forms the chief constituent (above two- 
thirds) of the stone. This mineral is often rolled up into ob- 
seurely formed globules, which are so firmly imbedded in the 
more massive portions of the same mineral, as to be broken 
_The crust is of medium thickness, and the usual wavy and 
pitted impressions are also strictly characteristic of these stones. 
Their origin in meteorites generally, is perhaps still obscure, bub 
ogous 
flaking up from heated surfaces of granite blocks during a con 
flagration, when wetted by cold water; though in the latter case, 
as might be expected, convexities take the place of concavities. 
5, Supposed Full of a Meteorie Stone in Independence County, 
cently in Missouri, that a stone fell at a place called Pilot ae 
year before the Academy of Sciences at Chicago.* 
* Detection of Phosphorus in the native steel of Montgomery (Verm 
the Waterloo (New York) Meteoric stone ine its 
I have examined the first named substance chiefly with a view to determine 
oni), and i” 
ands in phosphorus, e Waterloo stone, whose resemblance 1s 
1 bri 
well burnt Bristol brick, gives a very decided test for phosphoric acid. hs son and 
lematical steel f. Bedf ia) i th from 
ERE ety rom ord County (Pennsylvania) is free bo 
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New Haven, July 1, 1860. 
