ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



[June 27, 



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1-7 NATURAL SIZE. 



This meteorite is entirely free from crust. 



I saw Mr. Cornelius on the evening of the next day and obtained 

 from him the following facts in relation to the meteorite. 



About the middle of August, 1889, while cleaning out a spring 

 situated at the head of a gully some three-quarters of a mile from his 

 present home in Kenton County, eight miles south of Independence, 

 the county seat, he struck with his hoe something that had a metallic 

 ring: obtaining assistance he took the mass out, finding that it was inter- 

 locked in the roots of an ash tree from thirteen to fourteen inches in 

 diameter, and was between three and four feet below the normal surface. 



He let the mass lie by the spring until August, 1890, when he 

 removed it to his woodshed, where it has lain until purchased by me 

 for the Ward collection of meteorites and it is now at our establish- 

 ment in Rochester, N. Y. 



For the following analysis of this meteorite I am indebted to Mr. 

 Davison. 



Analysis of Kenton County Kentucky Meteorite : 



Fe 91-59 



Ni --. 7.65 



Co -- ---- .84 



Cu trace. 



C .12 



S trace. 



P.. trace. 



100.20 

 John M. Davison, 



Reynolds' Laboratory, University of Rochester. 



