Me E Weenies Waterville Meteorite. 37 
The stone was presented by Mr. Crosby to Virgil D. Parris, 
and by him to Professor G. W. Keely of Waterville College 
(now Colby University). A portion of the specimen was given 
by Professor Keely to‘Professor C. U. Shepard, who published 
an account of it in this Journal (1848, II, vi, 414, 415), from 
which account sufficient has been taken to render this paper 
intelligible to those who have not access to Professor Shepard’s 
original publication. His analysis gave the following results: 
SiO, Al,05 FeO MgO CaO Total. 
70-00 18°50 8-00 2°59 1:90= 100-99 
_It was regarded by Shepard as a doubtful meteorite, and in 
his later catalogues has been omitted. . My attention was espe- 
cially called to it from the description and analysis indicating 
that it belonged, if a meteorite, to a group of which only one 
authentic specimen is known (Igast), although several doubtful 
ones exist. It was then a matter of importance to ascertain 
whether it was a meteorite or not; and if one tu ascertain its 
microscopic characters. On inquiry of my friend and colleague 
_ Professor C. E. Hamlin, I learned that the main mass of the 
Specimen was presented to the cabinet of Colby University by 
Professor Keely in 1871. Through the kind offices of Profes- 
sor Hamlin, who is now a trastee of that college, the specimen 
was placed in my hands for microscopic examination. 
It is a small triangular cinder-like mass, cellular, laminated, 
and on the fresh fracture of an ash gray color. The laminated ap- , 
pearance is produced by a series of flattened cells surrounded by 
a black vitreous mass. The original surfaces are coated with a 
gray, red-brown and bluish-black crust formed by fusion. The 
formerly upper portion of the mass, when examinéd under a 
lens, is seen to be worn and polished, as siliceous rocks are apt 
vegetable character can readily be distinguished. 
The specimen then when picked up by Captain Crosby could 
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‘tabi partially buried in the soil, and of course could not have 
€n a portion of the meteor which he saw. It remains then 
agencies. The section 
showed a fluidal structure parallel to it. A few quartz grains 
