[Illustration: A stony meteorite, about natural size, which fell in 1875, in Iowa Co., Iowa] PUTNAM’S NATURE FIELD BOOKS Companion books to this one Mathews American Wild Flowers American Trees and Shrubs Wild Birds and Their Music Durand Wild Flowers in Homes and Gardens My Wild Flower Garden Common Ferns Lutz Insects Loomis Rocks and Minerals Eliot Birds of the Pacific Coast Armstrong Western Wild Flowers Alexander Birds of the Ocean Anthony North American Mammals Thomas Common Mushrooms Sturgis Birds of the Panama Canal Zone Miner Seashore Life Breder Marine Fishes of the Atlantic Coast Morgan Ponds and Streams Longyear Rocky Mountain Trees and Shrubs Olcott Field Book of the Skies Putnam Beebe The Shore Fishes of Bermuda Tee-Van Schrenkeisen Fresh-Water Fishes of North America North of Mexico Transcriber’s Notes —Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication. —In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_. —Silently corrected a few typos. —Reconstructed an image caption (Pisolite) on Plate 69. —Generated a cover image based on elements in the book. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Field Book of Common Rocks and Minerals, by Frederic Brewster Loomis and Walter Everett Corbin