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FreLp CoLtumpian Museum.—GEo.ocy, VOL. I. 
AEROLITES OR STONE METEORITES. 
Date 
of Fall or Find 
Fell 1883, 
Feb. 16, 
3.P, M. 
Fell 1887, 
Aug. 30. 
Found 1888. 
Fell 1889, 
June 9. 
Fell 1890, 
May 2, 
5:15 P. M. 
Fell 1890, 
June 25, 
1 Ve rt 
NAME AND DESCRIPTION. 
Alfianello, Brescia, Italy. 
*Large fragment, with crust. Characters like those 
of previous specimen. (K.) 
Taborg, Ochansk, Perm, Russia. 
Fragment with crust. The latter about 1 mm. 
thick, dull-black and blebby. Interior of stone 
light bluish-gray. Shows brecciated structure. 
Fine metallic grains are numerous. (W.) 
Pipe Creek, Texas. 
Irregular fragment, with one polished surface. A 
dark, heavy stone, with a large proportion of 
metallic grains. (K.) 
Mighei, Southern Russia. 
Fragment, with crust. Of dark color, somewhat 
resembling a piece of graphite, and so friable 
as to soil the fingers. . Crust reddish and _ scori- 
aceous. (W.) 
Like previous specimen, except that crust is darker. 
Chondri of lighter color are distributed through 
the mass. (IX. ) 
Leland, Winnebago Co., lowa. 
609 complete individuals, ranging in weight from 
one-tenth of an ounce to ten pounds each. They 
exhibit almost every variety of shapeand degree 
of surface fusion. From the fully rounded 
specimens with thick, black crust there is every 
gradation to those whose rough surface is only 
slightly blackened, indicating that they separated 
from other masses only a short distance before 
reaching the earth. The interior, where seen, 
is light gray, with coarse, metallic particles. In 
the group is the stone which fell into a hay- 
stack without setting it on fire. (See Pl. V, Fig. 
2.) (K.) 
*57 complete individuals, all of small size. (W.) 
Complete individual, with small, conical pittings 
resembling rain drop impressions. (W.) 
Farmington, Washington Co., Kansas. 
Fragment from interior, having the appearance of 
a dolerite of dark-gray color and splintery frac- 
ture. Contains white, radiated chondri. Bronze- 
yellow metallic grains are numerous. (W.) 
*Like previous specimen, but showing smooth 
crust which can be readily scaled off in cer- 
tain spots. (W.) 
Thin slab, polished, showing white and dark 
chondri, and various grains of nickeliferous iron. 
(W.) 
*Similar to No. 348. (W.) 
Full-sized slab, polished. Similar to above speci- 
men. (W.) 

Weight 
in grams. 
300 
23.5} 
100 
4.4 
425 
672 
3,302 
