L. G. Eakins — New Meteorite from Tennessee. 283 



The filtrate containing the cadmium was heated to boiling 

 and sufficient sodium carbonate added to complete the precipi- 

 tation. On further boiling the precipitate became granular 

 and filtered easily. The precipitate was washed with hot 

 water several times by decantation, the washings being passed 

 through the felt to prevent loss of any of the precipitate. 

 Washing was continued until the filtrate gave no reactions for 

 either sulphate or iodide. The crucible containing the carbon- 

 ate was heated gently at first, then gradually to a higher degree 

 until the lower half of the crucible was red and the white car- 

 bonate had changed to the brown oxide. This heating was 

 repeated until a constant weight was obtained. In some of 

 the separations the faintest suspicion of a blue color in the 

 carbonate suggested the presence of the fraction of a milli- 

 gram of copper which probably escaped the separation process. 









Series II. 









« 



Copper 







Cadmium 











found 



Error 





found 



Error 





Found 



Copper 



(weighed ; 



is on 



Cadmium 



(weighed 



on 



KI 



volume 



taken. 



CUolo). 



Copper. 



taken. 



as CdO.) 



cadmium. 



used. 



of liquid 



grm. 



grm. 



grm. 



grm. 



grm. 



grm. 



grm. 



cm 3 . 



(1) 0-2383 



0-2386 



0-0003 + 



0-0484 



0-0490 



00006 + 



2 



100 



(2) 0-1192 



0-1185 



0-0007 — 



0-2439 



0-2430 



0-0001 + 



" 



" 



(3) 0-1193 



0-1194 



0-0001 + 



0-1942 



0-1942 



o-oooo 



a 



u 



(4) 0-1188 



0-1190 



0-0002 + 



02422 



0-2421 



o-oooi — 



" 



200 



(5) 0-1201 



0-1201 



o-oooo 



0-2426 



0-2428 



0-0002 + 



t< 



100 



(6) 0-1193 



01193 



00000 



0-2436 



0-2433 



0-0003- 



a 



>t 



(7) 0-0239 



0-0238 



o-oooi- 



0-1934 



0-1932 



0-0002- 



1 



" 



(8) 0-0236 



0-0239 



00003 + 



0-1942 



01936 



0-0006- 



u 



u 



(9) 0-0239 



0-0242 



0-0003 + 



0-1444 



0-1442 



0-0002- 



" 



(( 



(10) 0-0238 



0-0238 



o-oooo 



01467 



0-1461 



00006- 



" 



(1 



The method is simple in manipulation and the results are 

 fairly accurate. 



-A New Meteorite from Hamblen County, 

 Tennessee ; by L. G-. Eakins. 



Art. XLIL 



This meteorite, which was found in September, 1887, on 

 a ridge about six miles W.S.W. from Morristown, Hamblen 

 County, Tennessee, was first recognized and brought to notice 

 by Professor J. M. Safford, of Nashville, who, in course of an 

 inspection of a collection of iron ores, recognized some frag- 

 ments as undoubtedly meteoric. 



Professor Safford at once took steps to secure these pieces, 

 and visited the locality where they were found. Here he suc- 

 ceeded in finding a few more fragments, which had the appear- 

 ance of having been buried in the soil and afterward turned 



