METEORITE STUDIES—I. 
BY OLIVER CUMMINGS FARRINGTON. 
LONG ISLAND, PHILLIPS COUNTY, KANSAS. 
-MUSEUM NUMBER Me. 420. 
Nearly all of this great meteorite 1s possessed by the Museum 
and this has been the case since the opening of the institution in June, 
1894, but it has never been fully described. A few lines were devoted 
to the meteorite and a cut of it shown in the catalogue of the meteorite 
collection published in August, 1895.* A petrographic description — 
from fragments of the stone was also given by E. Weinschenk, in 
1895.7 
No account of the finding of the stone seems ever to have been 
published however and there are many other features which are 
well worthy of description. For details regarding the occurrence of 
the stone I am indebted to Prof. Williston of the University of Kan- 
sas and Prof. Willard of the Kansas Agricultural College. Prof. 
Williston states that a fragment of the meteorite first reached him in 
the fall of 1892. Prof. Willard secured one at about the same time. 
On recognizing the meteoritic nature of the fragments sent them, 
Profs. Williston and Willard at once entered upon negotiations for 
the purchase of the mass and soon became its possessors. The work 
of collecting the pieces at the original locality was done by Prof. 
Willard, and to him I am indebted for information regarding the 
occurrence there. 
The meteorite lay, he states, on a slope of the ordinary soil of the 
upland prairie region. There is no outcrop of rock in the immediate 
vicinity and none within several miles, so far as he knows. Where 
there is an outcrop the rock is limestone. The distribution of the 
pieces of the meteorite as first seen by Prof. Willard was such as to 
indicate that the mass had struck upon the slope and its front portion 
being stopped, the rear portion had broken upand gone ahead. The 
four large pieces which are put together to make the mass shown in 
* Field Columbian Museum Publication 3, p. 59. 
+ Tsch. Min. u. Petr. Mitth., Vol. 14, p. 471- 
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