The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-01
VISIT TO PEABODY MUSEUM.
MANY INTERPRETING MISERALo6-
 ICtL sPEClMRSs.

-Interesting Exhibition of Meteorit~s
 by Prominent New Haven People-some
 Geological specimens.
 There IS no department Of Yale uni versity that Is visited by people. both from in and out of the city. as much as Peabody museum, and there are few places in the city of New Haven as interesting to spend morning or after noon. There are large collections Of specimens-mineraiogical geological. chronological. pathological and ar chaeological.
 Tn this article It is the purpose to give only brief mention of some of the larger or more striking specimens In the min eralogical and geological collections. But brief as it Is, 1t may give some idea of the general character of the arti- cles on exhibition.
 In the main hall on the first floor at the entrance. the mineral collection there Is the stump of fossil tree from a coal mine at Arnot, near Biossburg, Pa.. which was presented by MT. Will lard N. Pratt. ITS. The first objects that attract the eye as you enter the mineralogical collection room is a group containing three specimens. One is a drift mass of copper weighing l37 pounds, although 1t is no larger than a common football. It is from the On tonagon region, Lake Superior. The others are two basaltic columns, one from Linz on the Rhine and the other from the Giants Causeway in Ireland. On the left to the entrance to this room is fine specimen of quartz crystals with copper pyrites and zinc blends from Ellenville, Ulster county, N. r., and presented by Rev. B. w. Bentley, D. D., class of 1850. It looks like an inn mense stick of rock candy, and as the sunlight strikes the crystals, sparkles with every color of the rainbow. Near this Is a case containing some large cu- bic crystals of fluor spar from Macomb, St. Lawrence county, New York, and presented by George F. Kunz, esq. They are light green in color and are very pretty. On the wall above these specimens there is drift mass of cop per taken from near East Rock, New Haven. It is even larger than the spec imen taken from the Lake Superior re- zion and is green with dark yellow spots.
 The first large case that one comes to is devoted to specimens of gold, sil- yer, copper and sulphur There are models of gold nuggets, one from the Ural mountains weighing 1900 ounces, another from Ballarat, Australia, weighing 2,166 ounces. There are also small specimens of gold from North Carolina. Oregon. saxony, Transylva- mia, Virginia, Colorado. California. New Mexico and Brazil. In neigh boring case are some beautiful speci- mems of pyrites of iron, also a very handsome specimen of copper pyrites. As the sun shines on this, 1t brings out rich and most beautiful colors-purple brown. yellow and green. In another case is large specimen of crystals of amethyst from thunder bay, Lake Su- perior. The color is the dark purple of the grape and is very handsome. In this case there is also fine crystal of beryl from Acworth, N H., a semi. transparent crystal of calcite from St Lawrence county, N. Y, and a fine specimen of green clouded Mexican onyx from Pueblo. Another case is de. voted to specimens of gneiss. Among them are three diamond cores from the Fifth Avenue hotel artesian we'll (depth 59O feet in New York. In another l case is large pallasite, or speci. | men of meteoric iron with grains ot found in March 1890. in Kiowa county Kansas. It was presented by Edward M. Reed, M. A., class of 1885 and Pierce N. Welch, class of 1862. Tn this case there Is also a specimen Of pallas iror from Siberia, discovered in 1776. Neal by Is spherical eoncretion of lime stone from Fort Scott, Kansas, weigh ing 370 pounds. There Is also a fine specimen of crysatli2ed barite, or heavy spar, from Cheshire, Conn.,, and pre- sented by MT. Rollin Sanford, class O. 1881. Another specimen of the sam, kind was presented by Messrs.Layon 1 ACOoS. A "uOiS Cdsc IS uStOlEO u specimens of meteorites which fell Ma, 10, 1879. near Baskerville Emmett coun
 ty, Iowa. There is large mass a2I pounds in weight and 600 small speci
 mems from one pound to 1-So of a, ounce and aggregating about thirteel pounds in weight. These were present ed by MT. Joshua, Coit Governor J. E English. MT. Henry Farnam, Professo
 E. E. Salisbury, Mir. J. B. Sargent, MI
 Henry Trowbridge, MT. Mason Youni
 and several gentlemen immediatel
 connected with Yale college. A not
 on the accompanying card gives tn
 following informa tion concerning tn
 meteorites. "The fall which yielde these specimens took place at 5 D. IT
 It was accompanied by a noise descrih
 ed as like that of heavy artillery an
 two violent explosions; the large mass es buried themselves deep in the eartf
 while the smaller ones scattered like
 shower of hailstones for several mile lover the prairie. The specimens foun
 were Q) mass weighing 437 pound! lnow in the British museum, Londor |(2) a mass weighing ITO pounds. now 1 the museum of the University of Mir
 nesota, 0 another weighing s2,
 pounds, here exhibited. In addition
 these there were number of spec mems of several pounds weight an labout 5000 smaller ones, weighing all from 60 to 70 pounds, and rangin from one pound down to the size of