326 Analysis of the Tennessee Meteorite. 
ble, lime or brick kilns, or fires for manufacturing purposes, between 
pestilential places, and villages, or dwellings. 
I forbear to extend this article by making even the apology which 
its length already demands ; and am, with great respect, 
Your chediine servant, MHEE 
Neon York, Nov. 1829, 
Arr. VI.— Tennessee Meteorite. 
Tue late Professor Bowen, of whom an obituary notice was in- 
serted at the close of Vol. XVI. of this Journal, left the meteoric 
stone, of which an analysis by Mr. Seybert is subjoined, with directions 
that it should be forwarded to me. hn its way to this place, it was 
detained in Philadelphia, at my request, to undergo an analysis by 
Mr. Seybert, a labor which that gentleman has been so kind as to 
perform. Mr. Seybert’s valuable analyses in Vols. IV. V. and VI. 
of this work, interrupted by an absence of several years in Europe, 
have added to our knowledge and our reputation 5 and the friends 
of science will be happy to see him occupied again in a kind of in- 
vestigation, which is peculiarly difficult, and for which few. in any 
country are adequately qualified. The meteorite of Tennessee has 
not yetarrived here. Mr. Seybert’s notice of its external and phys- 
ical characters, is sufficient to shew its similarity to the meteorites 
that have fallen in other places.—B. S. 
New Haven, Dec. 6 
dare of the Meare, which fell near Drake’s Creek, eighteen 
miles from Nashville, Tennessee, in the year 1827. 
This mineral consists of a friable granular mass, of a greyish color, 
in which metallic particles are easily discernible to the naked eye. 
It is coated externally, with a crust of a dark brown color, which 
shows evident marks of fusion. It is highly magnetic, and its spe 
cific gravity, by two trials, was ascertained to be 3.484, and 8.487. 
thrown into muriatic acid, sulphuretted hydrogen is’ 
By preliminary essays, its constituents appeared to be, Silica, ‘Alu- 
mina, Magnesia, Sulphur, Nickel, Chrome, and Iron. 
ANALYSIS. 
A. 3 grammes of the pulverized mineral were decomposed in the 
usual way, by calcination with 2 parts of nitre, and 2 parts of pure 
caustic potash; the product communicated a pale green color to the 
