94 FIELD COLUMBIAN MusgEuM—GEOLOGY, VOL. II. 

Date ; a 
No viol Pall ot Bind, NAME AND DESCRIPTION. 
Fell 1878. Dandapur, Dist. Guorck pur, India. 
69 | Sept. 5. Stone. Veined intermediate chondrite, Cia. 
Fragment, with crust, one surface polished. 
Crust black, thin, minutely pitted. Interior 
light-gray, much spotted with rust. The out- 
lines of light colored chondri can be discerned 
here and there. Metallic grains are rather 
numerous. Cat. No., 449. 
Found 1846. | Deep Springs, Deep Springs Farm, Rockingham 
Coy North Carolinas 
70 Iron. Nickel-rich ataxite. Morradal group. 
Nearly complete etched section 7x17 cm. Ex- 
hibits no figures, but shows a few troilite 
inclusions. Cat. No., 453. 
Known 1856. | Denton County, Texas. 
71 Iron. Medium octahedrite, Om. Thin, sawed 
fragment. Along an old fracture are numer- 
ous parallel grooves which are probably lines 
of decomposition. Cat. No., 74. 
Found before} Descubridora, Catorce, San Luis Potosi, Me x‘ico. 
72 |1780. Iron. Medium octahedrite, Om. Polished and 
. etched slab. Widmanstatten figures in long 
parallel bands are crossed at intervals by others 
nearly at right angles. Cat. No., 2. 
Fell 1860, Dhurmsala, Punjaub, India. 
73 | July 14, Stone. Intermediate chondrite, Ci. Fragments 
211 Eaves fromiinteriors, Car Nomi. 
Fragment with crust, the latter black, shining 
and showing numerous pits. Interior light- 
gray, with rusty grains. Compact. Nodules 
of a bluish gray color, finer grained than the 
rest, are distributed through the mass. Cat. 
No., 276. 
Found 1888. | Dona Inez, Atacama, Chile. 
74 Ironstone. Mesosiderite, M. Thin slab, show- 
ing natural and etched surfaces. The stony 
matter, dark-brgwn in color, largely predom- 
inates. One nodule of iron about the size of 
a pea, shows delicate Widmanstatten figures. 
Cat. No., 191. 
Hemispheroidal mass, one surface polished. The 
peculiar cracked surface characteristic of these 
meteorites is well exhibited. Cat. No., 192. 
Complete individual, described by Howell as 
looking like “a lump of dried red mud cracked 
by shrinkage and covered with spots of green 
mould (nickel) in places.’’ Cat. no., 193. 
Similar to No. 192, but larger. Cat. No., 194. 

Weight 
in grams. 
420 
35 
123 
48.5 
103 
741 
245 
