382 D. Fisher — Meteorite from St. Croix Co., Wisconsin. 



4 to 5 inches. The back side, as the view is taken, is nearly 

 flat and pretty uniformly covered with circular pittings. On 



this side, it presents the ordinary appearance of most masses of 

 meteoric iron, the surface crust having entirely disappeared. 

 It seems probable that it lay with this surface in contact with 

 the ground during the three years after it was dug up, and the 

 crust disappeared by the ordinary process of weathering. The 

 front side is less regular in shape and shows several large de- 

 pressions. This surface is largely covered with the fused crust 

 which is heaped up in ridges and shows all the perfections of 

 the lines of flow characteristic of irons which have been picked 

 up immediately after their fall ; the only change being a par- 

 tial oxidation of this film so that it appears in places brown 

 instead of black. This character of the St. Croix meteorite, 



