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rSeience Gevgr. Hep., 47 Lafayette PI. JVT FL 



3. Is the East Tennessee Meteorite from Whitfield Co., Georgia? 



While looking over the literature on the Chattooga Co. 

 meteorite the writer happened upon some facts which seem to 

 give the locality of a very interesting mass of meteoric iron, 

 i. e., that of East Tennessee. Of the original locality we know 

 little definitely. Dr. F. A. Genth says* in regard to an unde- 

 scribed meteoric iron from East Tennessee : 



" Under the date of May 11, 1878, the late Julius E. Raht, of 

 Cleveland, Tenn., wrote me as follows : — I send you to-day a 

 small piece of meteoric iron which was broken from a mass weigk- 



*Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1886, p. 366. 



