G. F. Kunz — New American Meteorites. 317 



The Carroll County meteorite was found in 1880, about 

 three-quarters of a mile from Eagle Station, Carroll County, 

 Kentucky, ten miles from the mouth of the Kentucky .River, 

 and about seven miles in a direct line from both the Kentucky 

 and the Ohio Rivers. The distance to the Turner mounds, 

 where Professor Putnam found the meteoric iron and the 

 ornaments made of it, is about sixty miles. The mass, which 

 weighed about eighty pounds, or 36 - 5 kilos, was rusted on the 

 surface to a depth, in some places, of 10 to 12 millimeters ; 

 and deep pits, some two centimeters across, are observed in the 

 spots where grains of olivine have probably dropped out. 

 The meteorite was largely made up of fine yellow transparent 

 olivine resembling that of the famous Pallas iron, with a 

 specific gravity of 4- 72. 



Taking the specific gravity of the iron at 7 6, and that of 

 the olivine at 3 '3, we find that the Turner mound meteorites 

 consist of about three parts of olivine to one of iron. Several 

 of the Kiowa masses have about the same constitution. For 

 comparison, see the analyses of the Kiowa meteorites, given 

 above, and of the olivine and iron from the Turner mound,* 

 here inserted, as follows : 



Olivine. Iron. 



Si0 2 40-02 Fe... 89-00 



FeO 14.06 Ni 10-65 



MnO 0-10 Co 045 



Mp-0 ..45-60 Cu tr 



99-78 -100-10 



When the Carroll County iron was described by the author 

 In this Journal (vol. xxxiii, March, 1887), it was suggested 

 that the pieces found by Professor Putnam in the Miami 

 mounds had probably been taken from that mass, since no 

 other olivine meteorite had up to that time been found in 

 aSTorth America ; while that of Carroll County contained a 

 large percentage of olivine, even greater than the mound 

 specimens. Very little cutting had been done on the Carroll 

 County mass ; and it proved on being cut, not to be a pallasite, 

 but a brahinite variety of meteorite. In the Little Miami 

 valley meteorite are embedded circular grains or crystals of 

 olivine ; whereas that of the Carroll County consists of a mass 

 of olivine in which the iron serves as a filling between the 

 crystals. "When a section was cut from the Kiowa County 

 material, however, there appeared no doubt as to the identity 

 of this fall with that from which the ear-rings were made that 

 were found in the mound. In both the Kiowa County and 



*Kennicutt; 16th and 17th Reports of the Peabody Museum of Archseology, 

 p. 382. 



