The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-31

weight of irons as compared with the
weight of stones. The largest specimen
in the collection is still the well known
iron from Red river, Texas, which
weighs 1885 pounds. The next largest
is a fine mass of the Canon Diablo, Ari-
IONA, iron, which weighs 1926 pounds.
This was presented to the collection as
a memorial of Professor Elias LOOMS
by his sons and friends.
Another large mass is that of the XII
owa county, Kansas, a pallasite, which
weighs 102 pounds. This is one of a
number discovered about 1886; it was
presented by e. NJ. Reed and Pierce N.
WEIGH. A notable mass also is that
discovered in 1883 at Hammond st.
Croix county, Wisconsin, which was
presented by Professor H. A. Newton.
In the present catalogue the fall of
, May 10, 1879, in Emmett county, Iowa, is
+ classed among the irons. Representing
this fall are nearly 600 complete speci-
mems, the largest weighing nearly 100
pounds. the smaller raging from those
weighing pound down to those of the
size of a pea. Among the irons may
| also be mentioned a small slice of the
meteoric iron which was found in 1883
on the altar of one of the Turner" In
| dian mounds in the Little Miami val
ley, Ohio. This was presented by Pro-
/ fessor H A Newton. 1t has since been
| shown that these fragments are prob
ably derived from masses of the Kiowa
county fall just mentioned.
Among the stones the most important
addition is the collection from the fall
of May 2, 1890, in Winnebago county,
Iowa, which was presented by Henry
X. and Alice F. English This collec-
| ton numbers between 900 and 1000
separate stones, most of them perfect,
and is one of the largest collections
from a single fall that exist in any mu-
! scum. Another notable fall is that of
| February u, 1875, in Iowa county, Iowa,
which contains twenty stones, the larg-
est weighing about twenty-seven
pounds. Other large stones in the col
lection are those of Weston, Connecti-
cut; Guernsey county, Ohio; Cape Cir
ardeau Missouri, and Salt Lake City,
Utah. A slice of the interesting stone
which fell March 10, 1884 at Djat-Pen-
gilong, Java, which was presented by
the Dutch government, may also be
mentioned.
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nine specimens of stones representing
separate falls The oldest stone in the
collection fell in 1892 at Ensisheim,
Germany, where by order of a council
called by Emperor Macmillan, the
stone was hung up in the local church
as a sacred object, with the strictest
orders that it should be left intact; but
it has since been divided in the interest
of science.
Five other stones of the Yale collec-
ton bear dates before the year 1900
One of the irons, that from the Turner
mounds, Anderson O., is prehistoric,
and two others bear dates of fall of
1854 and one of 1400, ten altogether dat
ing before 1900. In an unpublished lee
ture the late Prof H. A. Newton. de-
scribing the prehistoric Yale specimen
said that it was found upon a brick al
tar in one of the Ohio mounds ALONG
with it were a serpent cut out of mica
terra Gotta figurines, two curious dish
es carved from stone in the form OF
animals, pearls, shells, copper orna-
ments and some 300 ankle bones Of deer
which, in the absence of other bones
had evidently been chosen from their
significant cause. All were much in
jured by fire. Two bushels of similar
objects were found on the altar OF
q another mound near by.
The total number of falls represented
at the Imperial Museum, Vienna, the
largest collection in the world, is 49S
and go falls are enumerated not repre-.
scented at the museum-the addition OF
the two numbers bringing the recorded
falls of the world down to last March
The American Journal of Science
prints observations of the meteor sc
extensively observed in this region
which fell about 4:90 p. m. December
1896. The direction of appearance was
southeast as seen at New Haven
east-northeast as seen at Brooklyn, N
Y, and the course nearly vertically
downward. The form was that of ar
/ elongated ovoid and blush or green.
ish tint was noted. The observations
suggest that the mass may have fall
en- into the eastern part of Long Island
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