242 G. J. Brush on the Alabama Meteoric Stone. 
called to her brother to ‘run quickly, the house is on fire— 
don’t you hear it ?? Mr. H. thinks it was three or four min- 
utes from the first noise until its fall. The place where it 
struck the ground is a partially decomposed conglomerate, 
mixed with vegetable mould. The fracture was made by strik- 
ing a fragment of limestone rock.” 
When received by me the meteoric stone weighed 615 grams. 
The crust was entire with the exception of a small corner, al- 
though the whole mass seemed to have a fresh fracture running 
through it. The weight of the entire meteorite could not have 
been over 650 grams. The accompanying cut will serve to 
seems to have been in a condition of viscid fusion as shown 
by the ridges on the edges represented by the white lines. 
crust was so thin in some parts that fragments of olivine could 
be distinguished through it. 
n the fractured surtace, as seen by the naked eye, it presented 
a pseudo-porphyritic structure, having a gray ground wit 
thite; it seemed too difficultly fusible for labradorite. 3. 
lowish green mineral passing into yellow and also apparently 
