118 O. W. Huntington—Coahwila Meteorites. 
specimens, each one of which, like the Maverick County, is 
complete in itself, and in Smith’s description of the Sta. Rosa 
iron,* which is one of the most irregular of the group, he speaks 
of it as being ‘‘rather smooth with only here and there thin 
coatings of rust.” 
Still another point of resemblance is the softness of the 
iron, which, in the case of the Maverick County, Mr. Hidden 
says could be easily cut with a knife, while Smith states 
several times in his descriptions of the various Coahuila irons 
that they were soft, so that they could easily be cut with a saw. 
With the attention which is now being given to the study of 
meteorites, and the numbers of new specimens which are com- 
ing daily into our cabinets, it is important that different names 
should not be given to different individuals of the same fall, 
as it confuses the science. A very marked incident of such a 
confusion of names is shown by the Sevier and Cocke County 
meteorites, which are of so striking a character that no one 
could possibly examine specimens of these two irons without 
unhesitatingly concluding that they were products of one and 
the same fall. 
This meteorite must evidently have been a very large one, 
passing through West Virginia and the eastern counties of 
Kentucky and Tennessee, and it is probable that several masses 
fell during its flight, and were subsequently distributed quite 
widely, as described by Prof. C. U. Shepard, in this Journal, 
second series, vol. iv, p. 88. Fragments are constantly being 
offered for sale as specimens of silver ore, owing to the white- 
ness of the iron. 
Through the kindness of Mr. George F. Kunz we were able 
to examine a specimen of the iron described by him in this 
Journal, third series, vol. xxxi, p. 145, which evidently belongs 
to the same fall. 
Three years ago we received, through the kindness of Prof. 
N.S. Shaler, a specimen, said to have come from near Lebanon, 
Wilson County, Tennessee, with the same loose character and 
white color of the Sevier County iron, having also large nodules 
of graphite, and thin laminz of very magnetic elastic foil, 
easily separable from the mass, so characteristic of that iron. 
This specimen we did not describe, because it so obviously 
belonged to the same fall. 
Prof. Shaler further informs us that he has heard frequent 
reports of other specimens throughout that region. 
* This Journal, 1855, vol. xix, pp. 160. 
