
METEORITE COLLECTION < AND CATALOGUE. 45 
AEROSIDEROLITES OR IRON-STONE METEORITES. 
Cat. Date 7 Weight 
No, | of Fall or Find. NAME AND DESCRIPTION, in grams. 
Found 1749. | Medwedewa, Krasnojarsk, Siberia.( The Pal- 
las Iron.) 
Fragment of the iron matrix with a little olivine. 
(W.) 
Chiseled fragment showing both iron and olivine. 
: (K.) 
*Several fragments, composed of iron and olivine. 
(K.) 
Found about] Imilac, Desert of Atacama, South America. 
1800. Fragment of iron matrix, most of the stony filling 
having decomposed and dropped out. (W.) : 
*Like previous specimen. (W.) 
Thick slab, polished and etched. The metallic 
portion exhibits occasional W. f. Its sponge-like 
pores are filled with olivine, more or less decom- 
posed. (W.) 
Found 1847. | Rittersgrin, Erzgebirge, Saxony. 
Thin slab, polished. The stony portion exceeds 
the metallic. (W.) 
Found 1856. | Hainholz, Minden, Westphalia. 
Thin chip, showing natural and polished surface. 
The metallic grains are small, and scattered 
through a brownish mass of asmanite and bron- 
zite. (W.) 
*Fragment from interior. Black, fine-grained. 
(W.) 
*Like No. 165, but more decomposed. (K.) 
Found 1857. | [Miney, Taney Co., Missouri. 
Slab showing natural and polished surfaces. The 
natural surface has the peculiar glaze charac- 
teristic of this meteorite. (K.) 
Sawed slab showing natural and polished sur- 
faces. The metallic and non-metallic minerals 
are about equally abundant. (W.) 
*Like previous specimen except that the olivine is 
gathered in large nodules in certain portions. 
(W.) 
*Fragment with natural surface. (W.) 
Found 1861. | Breitenbach, Platten, Bohemia. 
Thin, polished slab. Resembles the Rittersgriin 
specimens very closely. (W.) 
Found 1862. | Sierra de Chaco, Desert of Atacama, South 
America. 
Fragment with crust. Structure fine-granular, 
with metallic and non-metallic minerals about 
equally distributed. (W.) 
Similar to No. 170, except that the surface appears 
glazed and shines in iridescent colors. (W 

