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270 C.U. Shepard on a Shooting Meteor from S. Carolina. 
which I am acquainted. Still I cannot pronounce them identi- 
cal, though my very imperfect examination had enabled me to 
indicate silicon from the first, as a constituent of the Randolph 
specimen. They were each found under circumstances equally 
favorable as in the case of the Rutherford iron, to the idea of 
their being natural productions. But unfortunately, the size of 
the imens was so small as to render their full elucidation 
difficult. Nevertheless, I hope very soon to subject them anew 
to examination; and [I think I may add, with every probability 
of establishing the real existence of the group of meteoric irons 
originally proposed, but which has temporarily been withdrawn 
from my classification. 
As a convenient name for the Rutherfordton species of matter, 
<I would propose that of Ferrosilicine 
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Arr. XXXIIT.—On a Shooting Meteor, seen to fall at Charleston, 
South Carolina, on the evening of November 16th, 1857, with no- 
few of other supposed shooting meteors; by CHARLES UPHAM 
HEPARD, : - 
IN calling attention to the matter of a shooting meteor, I am 
conscious, that the evidence of its genuineness is not absolutely 
perfect; nevertheless, it falls so little short of entire satisfactori- 
ness, as to make it fully worthy of notice. No instance of the 
kind at least, has yet been recorded, entitled to so much confi- 
dence. In detailing the circumstances, I shall aim to present 
every particular, precisely as it came to my knowledge. 
Mr. Sparkman R. Scriven, aged about 17, and clerk in the 
fiery ball of the size and shape of an orange, slowly caperem a 
