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SCIENCE 



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this was the first bowed instrument in Eu- 

 rope. It had a peculiar bridge, one foot of 

 which was much longer than the other, as the 

 former had to pass through a hole in the belly 

 and rest on the back (inside) of the instru- 

 ment; the shorter foot rested on the belly. 

 The one string which it boasted rested on the 

 bridge directly over the long foot. The result 

 was that the vibrations of the string caused 

 the short foot of the bridge to beat the belly. 

 Often, to prevent wear, that portion of the 

 belly receiving the beating was inlaid with a 

 plate of bone or metal. The marine trumpet 

 was quite common in Germany, being called 

 marien Trompet, also JSTonnengeige, the latter 

 because nuns used it in the trumpet parts of 

 their devotions. 



Fig. 3 represents a nut found on several 

 Hindu stringed instruments, on exhibition in 

 this museum. I believe that they are used in 

 connection with their musical scale, in which 

 the lowest note is that of the elephant, and 

 the highest that of the peacock. 



I should like to know if any one has ex- 

 pressed a theory about either the bridge or 

 nut. E. H. Hawley, 



Smithsonian Institution 



the pickens county meteorite 



The stone-iron meteorite here described was 

 sent to the office of the state geologist about 

 eighteen months ago from Pickens County, 

 Ga., together with a number of minerals and 

 rock specimens, for identification. A rather 

 extensive inquiry through correspondence and 

 even a personal visit to Pickens County has, 

 so far, given no definite information as to the 

 exact locality from which the meteorite was 

 obtained. 



When first seen, the specimen, which 

 weighed fourteen ounces, was roughly cubical 



in shape and had the appearance of being a 

 part of a larger piece. Five of the faces of 

 the irregular cube showed comparatively fresh 

 surfaces, while the sixth side was more or less 

 oxidized and showed a somewhat pitted condi- 

 tion, as if it was an original surface. In color 

 and texture it closely resembles basalt, the 

 dark color being blotched here and there by 

 brownish-red spots, which seem to be due to 

 the oxidation of the contained particles of 

 metallic iron. With the exception of the 

 metallic iron, which occurs in irregular 

 masses a fourth of an inch or less in diameter, 

 and which makes up something like ten per 

 cent, of the entire mass, none of the other 

 minerals can be made out without the use of 

 the lens. 



The chemical analysis of a fragment of the 

 meteorite made by Dr. Edgar Everhart, chem- 

 ist of the Geological Survey of Georgia, is 

 here given, together with the analyses of four 

 other meteorites heretofore described which 

 most closely resemble in chemical composition 

 the Pickens County meteorite: 



METEORITE ANALYSES 



