362 N. R. Leonard —Iowa County Meteor. 
It is worthy of remark that the regions bordering close upon 
the river are timbered land, and that especially in sections north 
of the river and below the two larger stones found, the lands 
are low and now overflowed, so that larger pieces, hidden by 
forest or water, may yet be found. 
These meteoric stones are many of them entirely covered 
with the ordinary black coating, and they all present the 
‘‘ pitted” appearance common to such bodies. In several in- 
stances there is plain evidence of a fracture having taken place 
while the stone was as yet some distance from the earth. 
These surfaces of fracture are for the most part covered 
with a secondary coating which sometimes appears to have 
been partially formed by the pouring over of the-melted surface 
matter from other parts of the surface. In some cases, however, 
the overflow is only traceable to a short distance from the 
Analysis of Prof. J. Lawrence Smith.—The Iowa ake 
This meteorite has a hardness rather above the average of its 
class. I have found it to be composed of 
Stony Matter ae 81°64 
Trothtte so ee ae ce 82 
INICRONorOUs WOH oo oc oo eee ee. 12°54 
Of the stony part there was 
igbie ni Rei ee 54°15 
Pusoluble <3. | pe es oc 46°80 
Separate analyses of these gave for the 
ili oe ee ee . 55°02. 
Piste es 27°20 27°41 
Ma ao 33°45 13°12 
Soda with traces of potass. and lithia, _.____-- 1°45 ere 
Sete ktns ole fe ee ee hs | “71 gk 
Alumina, 
