336 = C.:«U:«. Shepard—Meteorice Iron from Georgia. 
With the widened slit it showed clearly the form of the lower 
art of the prominence, but not the upper. It was almost pre- 
cisely imitated by two new lines at 4 4092 and 4026; and the 
eatalogue-lines 4077 and 3990 resembled it also.’ On the other 
hand, ’,‘H and K showed the higher parts of the prominence 
-as well as the lower, while the lines at 4045 and 3970 were 
exceedingly fine and smooth, without knottiness or structure. 
On August Ist, at 2°58" local time (=7" 57" Greenwich 
time), the intensity of the chromosphere spectrum was very 
remarkable, the bright lines more vivid and numerous than 
I remember ever to have seen them before. Between this time 
and 3.12 a prominence was shot up in fragments of flame to 
an elevation of over 120,000 miles. It will be interesting to 
learn whether any corresponding magnetic twitch appears on 
the magnetometer records. 
Princeton, N. J., Sept. 10, 1883. 
Art. XXXVIL—On Meteoric Iron from near Dalton, Whitfield 
County, Georgia; by CHARLES UPHAM SHEPARD, SR. 
WHETHER the mass here described is of identical origin with 
that found in 1877, and described by Mr. W. Harl Hidden in 
vol, xxi, No. 124, p. 287, of this Journal, is not quite certain. 
The circumstances connected with the finding of the present 
mass are detailed in the following letter of H. C. Hamilton, 
Esq, of Dalton, dated Oct. 18th, 1882, addressed to Major E. 
Willis of Charleston, 8. C.: 
“ Sir—Yours of the 14th inst. from Professor Charles U. 
Shepard, Jr., in regard to the meteorite is received. The 
meteorite was found some time in the year 1879 by Francis M. 
Anderson, on his farm, on lot 109 in the 10th district and 8d 
section of Whitfield county, Georgia, about 14 miles northeast 
of Dalton. It was discovered while plowing, on the west side 
of a ridge, near its base. The ridge runs north and south, an 
the furrows cut east and west. It was lying with its apex 
upward, and buried about six inches below the surface of the 
ground. 
Some time during the fall of 1860 an unusual atmospheri¢ 
phenomenon occurred in the region. A bright light shot 
across the heavens, followed by a loud report, creating great 
alarm among the people, many of whom supposed the end of 
the world had arrived. 
A large mass of iron, supposed to be a meteorite, was found 
half a mile from this one, about the year 1862. It was sent 
