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METEORITE COLLECTION—HANDBOOK AND CATALOGUE. 
AEROSIDERITES OR IRON METEORITES. 
Cat Date 
No. | of Fall or Find. 
Found 1853. 
Found 1854. 
Found 1854. 
Found 1854. 
Found 1854. 
Known 1856. 
Found 1856. 
Known 1856. 
Found 1857. 
Found 1858. 

NAME AND DESCRIPTION. 
Knoxville, Tazewell Co., Tennessee. 
Slab showing natural and polished surface. (W.) 
Madoc, Hastings Co,, Ontario, Canada. 
Spheroidal fragment showing natural surface with 
pittings. (W.) 
Thin, sawed slab with natural surface. (K.) 
Emmitsburg, Frederick Co., Maryland. 
Etched slab with natural surface. W. f. well 
brought out. (W.) 
Cranbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 
Irregular fragment much decomposed. A portion 
altered to limonite. Silvery plates of taenite 
are numerous through the mass. (W.) 
Cleaved fragment, octahedral structure prominent. 
(W.) 
Yarra Yarra River, Victoria, Australia. (Prob- 
abiy identical with Cranbourne.) 
Thin slab showing natural and etched surface. 
Crystalline structure is indicated on the 
etched surface, but no distinct W.f. are shown. 
(W.) 
Orange River, Garib, South Africa.. 
Sawed section with natural surface, smooth and 
deeply pitted. (i) 
Etched slab showing typical W. f. and nodule of 
troilite. (W.) 
Nelson County, Kentucky. 
Apparently a large scaling slightly oxidized. 
(W.) 
Denton County, Texas. 
Thin, sawed fragment. Along an old fracture are 
numerous parallel grooves which are probably 
lines of decomposition. (W.) 
Laurens County, South Carolina. 
Thin slab, etched, showing beautiful W. f. The 
delicate bands, silvery white in color, and inter- 
secting in equilateral triangles, stand out in sharp 
contrast to the dull gray of the ground mass. See 
Plate: 111) Fig. 1. (W.) 
Staunton, Augusta Co., Virginia. 
Full-sized slab, polished and etched. ‘hows typ- 
ical W. f. and large nodule of troilite. (W.) 
Slab with crust, etched. The crystalline plates have 
an ovoid form and intersect very irregularly, 
(W.) 
*Slab with crust, polished and etched on two sur- 
faces. Beautiful, broad and distinct W. f.(W.) 
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Weight 
ingrams. 
34.2 
4.5 
13 
1,595 
665 
100.5 
