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1878, publishes a notice that, according to the Yuma Sentinel, a 

 meteorite that "resembles steel" had been found in the Mohave 

 Desert. In Nature, Feb. 15, 1894, we read that one of the meteor- 

 ites brought to the United States by Peary, from Greenland, is of 

 tempered steel. The opinion is that meteoric iron had fallen in 

 water or snow, quickly cooling and hardening. This does not apply 

 to composition. Nov. 5, 1898, Nature publishes a notice of a paper 

 by Prof. Berwerth, of Vienna, upon "the close connection between 

 meteoric iron and steel-works' steel. 



At the meeting of Nov. 24, 1906, of the Essex Field Club, was 

 exhibited a piece of metal said to have fallen from the sky, Oct. 9, 

 1906, at Braintree. According to the Essex Naturalist, Dr. Fletcher, 

 of the British Museum, had declared this metal to be smelted iron 

 "so that the mystery of its reported 'fall' remained unexplained." 



