324 W. HE. Midden—Meteoric Iron from North Carolina. 
very eminent scientific men before whom the telephone was ex- 
hibited in Philadelphia, and by the address of Sir William 
Thomson before the British Association for the Advancement 
of Science. Ata later period, when even practical telegraph- 
ers considered the telephone as a mere toy, several scientific 
gentlemen, Professor John Pierce, Professor Eli W. Blake, Dr. 
Channing, Mr. Clark and Mr. Jones, of Providence, R. I, de- 
voted themselves to a series of experiments for the purpose of 
assisting me in making the telephone of practical utility ; and 
they communicated to me, from time to time, the results of 
their experiment with a kindness and generosity I can never 
forget. It is not only pleasant to remember these things and to 
speak of them, but it is a duty to repeat them, as they give a 
practical refutation to the often repeated stories of the blind- 
ness of scientific men to unaccredited novelties, and of their 
jealousy of unknown inventors who dare to enter the charmed 
circle of science. 
I trust that the scientific favor which was so readily accorded 
to the Telephone may be extended by you to this new claim- 
ant—' The phone.” 
ArT. XXXV.—A New Meteoric Iron from North Carolina; by 
W. E. Hippen. 
_ On the 19th of July, 1879, Mr. Gray W. Harris, while out 
prospecting for gold, on his land near Lick Creek, Davidson 
the Messrs. Richard Eames, Jr. and Sr. They had seen the 
“ nugget” and believed it to be iron, perhaps native iron ; they 
had noticed that the “nugget” had what Mr. Eames, Jr., aptly 
termed ‘night sweats.” Little beads of a yellowish fluid* 
* These watery exudations I have myself noticed and found to consist of chlo- 
ride of iron. W. E. H. 
