A NEW METEORITE FROM WAYNE COUNTY, 0. 



KEMAEKS ON THE METEOKITE FKOM ATACAMA, CHILI. 



Meteoric Iron of Wayne County, Ohio. 



The existence of a mass of meteoric iron from Wayne 

 County, Ohio, has been known to me for some years; but I 

 have delayed noticing its existence, hoping to obtain the mass, 

 and thus give a more complete description of it than I am able 

 to do. 



My attention was first called to it by Prof. James C. Booth, 

 of the United States Mint at Philadelphia, it having been brought 

 to him by Peter Williams, of Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, who 

 supposed it to be a mass of silver or some other precious metal. 

 Prof. Booth saw at once that it was meteoric iron, and tried to 

 procure it from Mr. Williams; but from some notion of its pos- 

 sessing considerable intrinsic value he retained it, and since that 

 time both the iron and Mr. Williams have been lost sight of. 



Prof. Booth detached a small portion of it, part of which 

 specimen he placed at my disposal, with the following memo- 

 randum: "Meteoric iron, given me in 1858 by Peter Williams, 

 of Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio. It was a rounded mass, 

 weighing about fifty pounds, and found by him in a woods 

 near the above place while gathering bowlders to pave a town. 

 It exhibits the usual figures on application of acid to a smooth 

 surface." 



As it is a well-authenticated meteorite, it is proper to make a 



record of it. Its specific gravity is 7.901, and it is composed of 



Iron 93.61 



Nickel 6.01 



Cobalt 73 



Copper, very minute, not estimated. 



Phosphorus 13 



100.48 



