162 F. P. Yenable — Two new Meteoric Irons. 



osity for several years when it ceased to be of any more inter- 

 est and was thrown aside. After Mr. T. B. Lindsay bought 

 the farm, he kept the meteoric mass for several years upon 

 his porch. In the fall of 1889 he presented it to the State 

 Museum. The indentation in the earth where it is reported 

 to have struck is still pointed out. 



The weight of the mass was 11*5 kilos. It had somewhat 

 the outline of a rhomboid, measuring 270 mm X 210 mm (ex- 

 tremes) and having a thickness which varied from 10 to 70 mm . 

 It is coated with oxidation products to a depth, in places of 

 several millimeters. These give the whole mass a dull reddish 

 brown color. The surface is irregularly pitted with broad, 

 shallow pits. It is somewhat concave on one side. On being- 

 polished and etched it gave faintly the Widmanstatten figures. 

 It belongs to the class of sweating meteorites, beads of de- 

 liquesced feme chloride appearing on the surface. This law- 

 rencite, so-called, is evidently unevenly distributed through the 

 mass. Analyses from different portions gave different amounts 

 of chlorine. In one boring it was noticed that the metal near 

 the surface (within 2 cm ) gave a decided percentage of chlorine, 

 while that coming from the deeper part of the drill hole (3-5 cm 

 from surface) gave no appreciable amount of chlorine. 



The analysis gave : 



Fe 87-01, P 0-04, Si0 2 0-53, CI 0*39, Ni 11-69, Co 0-79 = 100-45 



2. From Henry County, Va. 



This meteoric iron was found by Nathaniel Murphy in 

 Henry County, Va., about four miles from the Pittsylvania 

 County line, and one-half mile north of the dividing line 

 between North Carolina and Virginia, near to Smith River. 

 Murphy found, the stone in a ploughed field in the latter part 

 of the spring of 1889. He gave it to Col. J. Turner Morehead 

 of Leaksville, N. C. Together with Col. Morehead he searched 

 over the farm, but could find nothing similar to this piece. 

 Col. Morehead sent the mass to Dr. H. B. Battle of Raleigh, 

 N. C. It weighed 1*7 kilos and the detached pieces, mainly 

 crust, weighed 022 kilos. This crust broke off along certain 

 lines by a sort of cleavage, and the main mass is permeated 

 with cracks, not irregular and zig-zag, but as distinct and 

 regular, almost, as if it were a piece of crystallized gypsum. 

 This cleavage is in two directions. The laminae vary in thick- 

 ness, but many are about |- mm . The color of the surface is 

 dark bluish-black mixed with much red-rust coming from the 

 lawrencite. Parts of the soil apparently still clung to the mass. 

 It measured 60 X 70 X 75 mm taking the greatest lengths in the 

 three directions. Here and there spots were to be seen with 



