A Nezuly-Found Meteorite in Kentucky. — Merrill. 157 
of stone, no suspicion of its meteoric nature was entertained, 
and it was only when the zinc and lead mining- excitement of 
1902 caused a sample of it to be sent to Mr. E. O. Ulrich of 
the U. S. Geological Survey, with a request for information, 
that its true Hature became known. It is through the influence 
of Mr. Ulrich that the specimen was obtained for the National 
Museum. 
Prolonged exposure has, naturally, brought about a great 
amount of oxidation to the exterior portion of the material. 
More than that, the rough usage to which the exposed portion 
was subjected and the breaking away of small masses by the 
curious and the prospector, has so obscured the original form 
that little of value on this subject can be said. The mass, as 
it came to the Museum', is in the form of a rude prism some 55 
centimeters in hight, with sides measuring 33 centimeters and 
36 centimeters, respectively. Although badly oxidized, two of 
the sides show rough pittings. 
As stated above, the stone is a pallasite. It diiTers, however, 
from the usual pallasites in that, while those may properly be 
described as spongy masses of iron containing silicate miner- 
als, this is really a mass of silicate with a cementing of iron, 
the proportion of iron, so far as can be determined from exam- 
ination of the exterior of the mass, or of the small pieces which, 
have been broken away, being much less than in the case of 
the pallasite of Kiowa county, Kansas. From the Admire 
pallasite, described by the present writer in the Proceedings 
of the U. S. National Museum for 1902, it differs in that the 
silicate (in this case olivine) occurs in large rounded blebs 
rather than in sharply angular fragments. In this respect also 
it dififers from the Eagle Station, Kentucky, pallasite. 
The mineral composition of this meteorite, so far as deter- 
mined, has already been suggested. The main mass of the ma- 
terial is of olivine in rounded blebs and in sizes varying from 
five to twenty-five millimeters in diameter. These are quite 
•closely compacted, with the usual nickel-iron alloy in the inter- 
stices, and serving as a binding constituent, and in smaller 
proportions the customary phosphide and sulphide. 
Although the meteorite has not yet been fully investigated, 
it is of interest in bearing out certain observations b}' the 
writer in the case of the Admire, Kansas, meteorite, viz : the 
