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the antlers were those of the common species of deer. The 
specimen went to the New Haven City “Museum.” The old 
museum long since disappeared, so that the fact with regard 
to the species cannot now be ascertained. The antlers may 
have been those of another Quinnipiac Reindeer. 
Art. XLIX.—Jowa County Meteor and its Meteorites ; by 
N. R. LEONARD. 
On the evening of February 12th, 1875, at about half past 
ten i a _very large meteor was seen passing from S.W. 
throughout a region extending at least 400 miles in length 
from SW i i h 
In their descriptions of the course it pursued the ac- 
scribed it as moving toward the south or the southeast, and in 
a few cases the statements of different observers 1n the same 
I it pursued with a fair degree of accuracy. 
will give, first, those descriptions which relate to its general 
om as nearly as possible in the language of the ob- 
Ai Keokuk, Iowa, it is described as “ Oblong in figure, with 
* train ten to twelve times the length of the body, giving an 
