Cat. 
No. 
264 
METEORITE COLLECTION—HANDBOOK AND CATALOGUE. 
Date 
of Fall or Find. 
Fell 1855, 
May ll, 
3:30 P. M. 
Feil 1855, 
May 13, 
4 oh 1 
Fell 1856, 
Nov. 12, 
4P. M. 
Fell 1857, 
Feb. 28, 
Neon. 
Fell 1858, 
Dec. 9, 
7:30 A. M. 
Fell 1860, 
May, l, 
12:45 PN: 
AEROLITES OR STONE METEORITES. 
NAME AND DESCRIPTION. 
Island of Oesel, Kaande, Livland, Baltic Sea. 
Fragments with crust. Interior light-gray with 
rusty and bright metallic grains. Friable. Crust 
.5 mm. thick, dull-black, papillated. (W.) 
Gnarrenburg, Bremervorde, Hanover. 
Fragment from interior. Through a light, fine- 
grained ground-mass are scattered coarse parti- 
cles of a greenish-black mineral. Few metallic 
grains. (W.) 
Trenzano, Brescia, Italy. 
Cubical fragment, with crust on two surfaces. The 
latter shining, black, only slightly pitted, .3 mm. 
thick. 
the metallic portion forming a network which 
encloses dark, spherical chondri, some of adiam- 
eter of 2 mm. (W.) 
Smaller fragment, like previous specimen. (W.) 
Like previous specimen. (W.) 
Parnalilee, Madras, Ind ia. 
Fragment with crust. The latter is thin, brown- 
ish-black and differs little from the rest of the 
stone. ‘The interior is coarse-grained, with few 
metallic grains. (W.) 
Ausson and Clarac, Montrejeau, Haute Garonne, 
Rta nce. 
Fragment from interior. Light-gray, with rusty- 
iron grains, Compact. Delicate veins penetrate 
the mass. (W.) 
Fragment from the interior, with polished surface. 
The latter shows large chondri of an olivine-like 
mineral, embedded in a ground mass made up 
chiefly of small white chondri and grains of 
nickel-iron. rae atic) 
New Concord, Muskingum Co., Ohio. 
Nearly complete individual, of flattened, tetrahe- 
dral form, angles little rounded. A smooth,some- 
what shining, black crust covers the slightly pit- 
ted surface. Interior dark-gray, compact and 
fine-grained. Metallic grains numerous. (W.) 
Section from flattened individual, showing crust 
and two polished surfaces. The crust is thin, 
dull-black to reddish. A vein of metallic matter 
runs through the mass, and stands out in relief 
from the crust. Theinterior of the stone is dark- 
brown andgray. Metallic grains are large and 
abundant. (W.) 
Interior very compact, coarse grained,, 
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Weight 
in grams. 

