164 H. L. Preston — New Meteorite from Kentucky. 



I saw Mr. Cornelius on the evening of the next day and 

 obtained from him the following facts in relation to the 

 meteorite. 



About the middle of August, 1889, while cleaning out a 

 spring situated at the head of a gully some three-quarters of a 

 mile from his present home in Kenton County, eight miles 

 south of Independence, the county seat, he struck with his hoe 

 something that had a metallic ring ; obtaining assistance he took 

 the mass out, finding that it was interlocked in the roots of an 

 ash tree from thirteen to fourteen inches in diameter and was 

 between three and four feet below the normal surface. 



He let the mass lie by the spring until August, 1890, when 

 he removed it to his woodshed where it has lain until purchased 

 by me for the Ward collection of meteorites. It is now at 

 our establishment in Rochester, N. Y. 



For the following analysis of this meteorite I am indebted 

 to Mr. John M. Davison, of the Reynolds Laboratory, Univer- 

 sity of Rochester. 



Fe 91-59 



Ni 7-65 



Co -. 0-84 



Cu _ trace. 



C ._ 0-12 



S trace. 



P trace. 



100-20 



In the course of a conversation with Mr. S. J. Cornelius, a 

 brother of the gentlemen of whom I purchased the meteorite, 

 he mentioned the fact, that about thrfite o'clock on the seventh 

 of July, 1873, while returning from a picnic in this locality, 

 and when within half a mile of where the meteorite was sub- 

 sequently found, he heard, a great rumbling in the heavens, 

 which appeared to last three or four minutes and was followed 

 by a quivering of the earth. As the day was clear he could 

 not account for this phenomenon. I met at least seven other 

 people who distinctly remembered the picnic and the "rumb- 

 ling in the heavens," and some one or two " the quiver of the 

 earth." 



Is there any connection between this date and the fall of the 

 meteor ? 



