CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF METEORITES. 
Date 
. | of Fall or Find. 
Found 1802. 
Fell 1887, 
Jan. 1. 
Fell 1899, 
March 12, 
10:30 P. M. 
Found 1878. 
Found 1829. 
Fell 1852, 
Oct. 18, 
roid ey 
Fell 1847, 
July 14, 
36 | 3:45 A. M. 
NAME AND DESCRIPTION. 
Bitburg (Albacher Miihle), Rhenish Prussia. 
Iron-stone. Pallasite P. Polished slab showing 
large pores and slag-like surface, due to its 
having been passed through a furnace. Cat., 
No., 30. 
Fragment, three sides polished. The natural 
surface appears to be altering to limonite. 
Cat. No.,:31. 
Bjelokrynitschie, Volhynia, Russia. 
Stone. Brecciated intermediate chondrite, Cib. 
Polished fragment with crust. Mottled gray 
and brown, groundmass with numerous metallic 
grains of irregular size. Compact in texture. 
Crust black, firmly adhering. Cat. No., 484. 
Bijurbole, near Borgo, Finland. 
Stone. Spherical chondrite, Cc. Fragment with 
crust. Stone friable, and chondri of the size of 
peas and smaller, are easily separable. There 
are angular inclusions of a homogeneous, fine- 
grained rock also. The crust is black, coarse, 
and shows in places lines of flow. Metallic 
grainsscarce. See PlateX XXII. Cat. No., 522. 
Bluff, Fayette Co., Texas. 
Stone. Brecciated crystalline chondrite, Ckb. 
About one-tenth the original mass, showing crust 
and polished surface 25x35 cm. The crust 
surface is somewhat decomposed, but shows 
the characteristic pittings. ‘The polished sur- 
face shows the dark-green color of the stone, 
with its fine texture and scattered metallic 
grains. Cat. No., 173. 
Thin slab 31 x 38 cm., exhibiting the black veins 
peculiar to this meteorite. Cat. No., 174. 
Bohumilitz, Bohemia, Austria. 
Iron. Coarse octahedrite, Og. Etched slab, 6.5 x 9 
cm. with crust. Shows typical swollen octa- 
hedral figures. Cat. No., 487. 
Borkut, Marmaros, Hungary. 
Stone. Spherical chondrite, Cc. Fragments 
showing individual chondri, spheroidal, dark- 
green in color. Cat. No., 262. 
Braunau, Hauptmannsdorf, Bohemia. 
Iron. Hexahedrite,H. Sawed block showing 
natural surface with pits. The luster of the 
natural surface is like that of blued steel. 
Cat. No., 55. 
Brazos River, see Wichita Co. 
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