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presumed. But I should hesitate to close this sammary with- 
out expressing the conviction that some such earlier unknown 
comprehensive types as are indicated above did exist and 
should be sought. 
Art. XII.—On the Meteoric Iron of Lexington County, South 
Carolina ; by CHARLES UpHaM SHEPARD, Emeritus Professor 
of Natural History in Amherst College. 
THE mass here described was sent in May last by the farmer 
On whose land it had been found (through the hands of the 
Hon. N. A. Meelze) to the State Commissioner of Agriculture, 
Col. A. P. Butler, for examination, and by the latter it was 
forwarded to Prof. G. U. Shepard, jr., professor of chemistry in 
the Medical College at Charleston. It was immediately’ re- 
ported upon as meteoric iron. The finder had supposed it to 
