252 The American Geologist. October, 1905 
The flange, or rim, of the meteorite presents characters 
very remarkable and different from the conical part. Here 
can be seen those surface pittings which are common on 
meteorites. The}- are coarse, sometimes reaching more than 
an inch in diameter. .They can be seen on the plate (xiii) 
at the lower left hand corner of figure 1 and less distinctly 
at the right hand lower corner and uniformly over the lower 
surface in figure 2. So far as the writer observ- 
ed there is here no remnant of the "black crust," but the de- 
pressions are covered with a later-formed crust of iron rust. 
This rusting, however, appears to have been less intense 
than on the cone. The film is not so thick and the pittings 
themselves are not destroyed. This difference may be due 
to the fact that the upper surface, as it lay in the ground, 
was less continuously wet, and may have stood for many 
years some inches above the surface of the soil. These sur- 
face pittings do not appear in the basins and holes that char- 
acterize the lower surface of the meteorite, but the interior 
surfaces of those basins are marked by larger, irregular 
swellings and branches that resemble, in shape the irregu- 
larities which mark the outlines of these basins at their in- 
tersection with the general surface. This curious appear- 
ance is illustrated by fig. 2, plate xvi, where, by a conceit 
of the photographer, two children are seen resting in the 
concavities. 
It is only by reference to the photograph copied from 
Dr. Ward's description, that one can get a correct idea of 
these most singular concavities. They swell out so as to 
come into union with each other, or almost into contact, 
separated only by thin partitions of the metallic iron of the 
mass. The iron which separates these basins along such 
partitions, leaves on breaking down, or rusting away, sharp 
edges and little buttresses. Some of the depressions are 
small, not more than an inch in diameter. They all come to 
sharp edges where they intersect the pitted surface, and al- 
most without exception they are larger at some depth from 
the surface than at the surface. The smaller ones appear 
not only in the main metallic mass, near the base of the con- 
ical part, but most abundantly throughout the iron that en- 
closes the large concavities. Some of these smaller open- 
ings are elongated like auger holes, and some of them pass 
