216 Glenn — New Meteorite from Hendersonville, N. C. 



colored layer a thirty-second to a sixteenth of an inch thick 

 over most of the surface. While there are no cracks in the 

 mass, yet the interior shows that weathering influences have 

 made themselves felt to some extent at least through probably 

 the entire mass. Freshly broken surfaces show a very dark 

 gray mass with many minute rust-colored specks and numerous 

 small masses of metallic luster and either a gray or a light 

 pyritic yellow color. 



A piece weighing one and a half pounds was removed and 

 retained and the rest of the mass was given in exchange to the 

 U. S. National Museum, and Professor G. P. Merrill will 

 doubtless soon publish a description of the mineralogical and 

 other characters of the stone. The fall is new and adds one 

 more to the already considerable list of meteorites known from 

 North Carolina. 



Three pieces of meteoric iron from Smithville, Tenn., are 

 mentioned by Huntington* in his description of the find. A 

 fourth piece was sent, so the writer has been informed, to the 

 U. S. National Museum. During the past year two additional 

 pieces have come into the possession of the writer. They were 

 found about forty years ago at Berry Cantrell's, one mile west of 

 Smith vilie, Tenn. The larger mass weighed 3460 grams and 

 was of compact rounded shape and evidently entire. The 

 smaller weighed 478 grams and had had a portion removed by 

 some one. The character of the masses was similar to that 

 described by Huntington and, although the place where they 

 were found was not just the same as that where the previously 

 reported masses came from, they all belong undoubtedly to the 

 same fall, which may have been scattered over a considerable 

 area. Huntington's suggestion of collusion in these Smithville 

 finds and his regarding them as being really part of the Cocke 

 County iron, do not seem to the writer from his knowledge of 

 the circumstances to be at all well taken. No object can be 

 seen in any one going to the trouble of securing portions of a 

 fall, carrying them several hundred miles across the mountains, 

 secreting them forty or fifty years and then making presents 

 of them to strangers ! The only reasonable conclusion is that 

 the Smithville finds fell near Smithville and not in a far dis- 

 tant corner of the state. 



* Huntington, O. W., Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. Proc, vol. xxix, pp. 

 251-260, 1894. 



Vanderbilt University, Jan. 19, 1904. 



