Meteoric Irons — Continued. 





Date of 

 Discovery. 



Locality and Catalogue Number. 



Weight 



ii grams 





Largest 

 mass. 



Total. 



120 



1856, 1873 



Jewell Hill, Madison Co., N. Carolina (41, 61). 



5,610 



5,655 



121 



1856 



Fort Pierre, Dakota (43). 



343 



343 



122 



1856 



Nelson County, Kentucky (40). 



112 



112 



123 



1856 



Denton County, Texas (42). 



66 



66 



124 



1856 



Orange River, South Africa (39). 



27 



27 



125 



1856 



Hainholz, "Westphalia (38). 



8 



8 



126 



1857 



Octibbeha County, Mississippi (36). 



1 



1 



127 



1858-59 



Augusta County, Virginia (77). 



885 



885 



128 



1860 



Lagrange, Oldham Co., Kentucky (60). 



46 



46 



129 



1860 



Lion River, Gt. Namaqualand, S. Africa (33). 



40 



40 



130 



1861 



Robertson County, Tennessee (45). 



115 



115 



131 



1862 



Sierra de Chaco, Atacama (72). 



39 



39 



132 



1862 



Colorado River, La Paz, New Mexico (46). 



11 



11 



133 



1863 



Dakota (48). 



4 



4 



134 



1863 



Russell Gulch, Gilpin Co., Colorado (55). 



126 



126 



135 



1863 



South East Missouri (47). 



68 



68 



136 



1866 



Bear Creek, near Denver, Colorado (53). 



151 



151 



137 



1866 



Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky (54). 



37 



37 



138 



1867 



Bates County. Missouri (73). 



970 



970 



139 



1867 



Santa Catarina, Morro do Ricio, Brazil (67,75). 



800 



1,015 



140 



1867 



Arizona, exact locality unknown (52). 



42 



42 



141 



1868 



Coahuila, Bolson de Mapini, Mexico (64). 



1,508 



2,810 



142 



1869 



Washington Co. (Trenton), Wisconsin (57). 



65 



65 



143 



1869 



Shingle Springs, Eldorado Co., California (59). 



932 



932 



144 



1872 



Nenntmannsdorf, Saxony (66). 



47 



47 



145 



1879 



Ivanpah, San Bernardino, California (70). 



4 



4 



146 



1880 



Lexington, South Carolina (68). 



49 



49 



147 



1884 



Glorieta Mt , near Canoncito, New Mexico (78). 



2,840 



3,970 



The last catalogue of the meteorites preserved in the Mineraiogical Collection 

 of Yale College was published in 1869. At that time the total number of cata- 

 logued specimens, including stones and irons, amounted to 102. Since then the 

 collection has increased about one-half in number, and very largely also in 

 weight, though hardly in the same proportion. The total weight of the stones is 

 now about 1 17 kilos, of the irons 772 kilos, or in all 889 (about 1956 pounds). 



The largest specimen in the present collection is the iron from the Red River, 

 Texas, weighing 740 kilos (1635 lbs.) the history of which is well known. Next 

 to this the most notable falls represented are those of Feb. 12, 1875, in Iowa 

 County, Iowa, and of May 10, 1879, in Emmet County, Iowa. Of the first the 

 collection contains 20 stones, eight of them weighing more than a kilo and the 

 largest weighing about 12 kilos. Of the second there are nearly six hundred 

 complete specimens, the largest weighing 42 kilos (nearly 100 lbs.), the small 

 stones ranging from those weighing a pound down to those of the size of a pea. 

 This Emmet County meteorite is here included among the stones, although it is 

 properly intermediate between the ordinary meteoric stones and the irons. Other 

 large stones in the collection are those of Weston, Connecticut and Guernsey 

 County, Ohio. The stones of Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Salt Lake City, Utah, are 

 at this time represented in this collection only. 



It is desired to increase the collection as opportunity offers and make it as 

 complete as possible. Any communications having this end in view, either by 

 gift, purchase or exchange, may be addressed to the writer, the Curator of the 

 Collection, at New Haven, Connecticut. 



Aug. 10, 1886. Edward S. Dana, 



