On five new American meteorites

On the group of Metem'ites 1'ecelltly discovelwl in Bl'euhwn Township, Iiiowa (,'ounty, Iians((s, ABOUT foul' years ago, the farmers of Brenham Township ploughed up a number of heavy objects.which they used to weight down haystacks and for other like purposes, as they would have used boulders, It was discovered in March last that these were not common" rocks," but an interesting group of meteol'ites, numbering over twenty in all, weighing together about 2,000 pounds, and indi vidllally from 466 pounds down to one ounce, They were fOUJl(l imbedded at a slight depth in the soil, which here, for about one hundred feet deep is formed of Pleistocene marl, originally the bottom of an ancient Jake; they occnrred scattered ovel' a surface more than a mile in length, principally, however, in a sqnarE) of about sixty acres,What is now Kiowa Oounty, Kansas, five years ago formed parts of Edwards and Oomanche counties, and was occupied by large ranges and cattle ranches.Brenham Township, or Township 27, as it was then called, is in the nOI,thwestern part of Kiowa Oounty, consists of high pl':tirie with some areas of sand-hills, and has an altitude of about 220 feet above sea• level.Some dmins of the head•waters of the Medicine River and its tributaries, farther south, become ravines and valleys; anclthere a gravel occurs, the debris of Miocene" Loup Fork" conglomerates.But on the high prail'ie not a stone of any kind is to be fOllnd; hence the l'allchmen and settlers were greatly sur• l)!'isecl at finding heavy" rocks" or stones projecting through the prairie sod, Several years ago, Mr. Davis, a lawyer at Greensburg, iden• tified these as meteorites; and although the farmers had thus