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a person residing near the locality. He had had an analysis of 

 it made and found it to consist of iron and nickel. Prof. Swallow 

 the State geologist of Missouri found it to be composed of similar 

 constituents. He continues : " The mass evidently belongs to 

 the rather rare group of amygdaloidal meteoric irons, in which 

 like those of Hainholz and Steinbach, the peridotic ingredient 

 preponderates over the nickelic iron. Its specific gravity is 4-46. 

 The iron is remarkable for its whiteness, while the peridot is of a 

 well marked green color and distinctly crystalline. No pyrite is 

 visible in the very small fragments examined. It is reported that 

 two very considerable masses of this meteorite were found buried 

 in the soil upon a hill side, and that they are at present secreted 

 under the belief that they contain silver." 



Prof. E. J. Cox says * he was informed by Mrs. Scott of Van 

 Buren, that when in the N.W. part of Crawford County, near 

 Penneyoits, Sulphur Spring, attending a barbecue, on July 4th, 

 1859, about noon, a shower of small meteorites fell on the roof of 

 a cabin half a mile distant, one of which was sent to Capt. Albert 

 Pike, of Little Rock, Ark.f Although twenty-eight years have 

 elapsed nothing has been heard of any of these pieces, in spite of 

 frequent inquiries. 



Dr. J. Lawrence Smith J describes a meteorite as coming from 

 Newton Co., Ark., but without giving more exact data, as follows : 

 " The original has not been obtained. The only fragment of it 

 being in the hands of Judge Green was given to Prof. Cox, 

 who has kindly presented it to me. The weight of this fragment 

 is 22^- ounces and was evidently broken off from one corner of 

 the mass, as it presents three of the original surfaces. The 

 specific gravity taken on different pieces varies from 4*5 to 6'1. 

 By mechanical means and the aid of the magnet the following 

 minerals were separated : nickeliferous iron, chrome iron, sul- 

 phuret of iron, hornblende, olivine and carbonate of lime." 



ANALYSES. 



Newton Co., Ark., J. Lawrence Smith. 

 Olivine. Hornblende. Iron. 



Silica 42-02 Silica 52-10 Iron 91-23 



Alumina ... -46 Alumina 1 02 Nickel 7 '21 



Prot. iron.. 12-08 Prot. iron 16*49 Cobalt... -71 



Magnesia ..47-25 Prot. manganese.. 1*25 Copper ) . 



Magnesia 29-81 Phosphorus \ 



101-81 Alkalies -24 



99-15 



100-91 

 * Geol. Reconnaisance, Arkansas, 1860, p. 308. 



f Learning that Capt. Albert Pike, now General Albert Pike, resided in Wash- 

 ington. D. C, a letter was sent him in regard to the meteorite; he replied on Nov. 

 15th, 1887, as follows: " Sometime before the war, and before 1860, I think, I 

 was at Pennyoits Sulphur Springs, some 25 or more miles from Van Buren, and 

 learned that a meteorite had shortly before fallen near there, and had been found. 

 Afterwards a piece of it was procured for me, which became prize of war. I don't 

 know where the piece that I had is or where the residue of the mass went to. " 

 % This Journal, xl, pp. 213-216, 1865. 



