228 «G. F. Kune—WMeteorites from Kentucky and Mexico. 
To this already very long and favorable list of places, we 
might add several stations in Japan, at which telegraphic con- 
nection might, by suitable prearrangement, be without doubt 
secured. 
As Dr. Glasenapp remarks, the coming eclipse will afford a 
good occasion for astronomers to observe the phenomena in 
codperation, and this codperation may become very extended, 
if the telegraph is used in the manner proposed. 
Art. XXVII.—On two new Meteorites from Carroll County, 
Kentucky, and Catorze, Mexico; by GrorGE F. Kunz. 
Two meteorites have recently come to me for description, 
which are of more than ordinary interest, both on account of 
their peculiar composition and structure, and also because of 
their ethnological relations. The mass from Carroll County, 
Kentucky, is “especially interesting because of its probable con- 
nection with the meteoric iron found in the Turner mounds. 
1. Carroll County, Kentucky, Meteorite.—In the spring of 1883, 
Professor F. W. Putnam found on the altar of mound No. 8 of 
the Turner group of mounds in the Little Miami Valley, Ohio, 
several ear ornaments made (see fig. 1)* of iron and several 
1. others overlaid with iron. 
With these were also found 
a number of separate pieces 
that were thought to be of 
iron. They. were covered 
with cinders, charcoal, pearls 
(two bushels were found in 
this group of mounds), and 
other material cemented by 
an oxide of iron, showing 
that the pieces had been sub- 
jected to a high temperature. 
On removing the scale Dr. 
Kennicutt found they were 
made of iron of meteoric- 
Earring mae of Meteoric Iron. origin. One of the pieces 
weighed 28 and another 52 grams. 
In the autumn of 1883, another mass was found on the altar 
of mound No. 4 of this same group, which weighed 767-5 
grams (274 ozs.). Dr. Kennicutt suggests that these were all 
parts of some larger meteoric mass. The results of the inves- 
* T am indebted to Professor Putnam for the cuts from which figures 1 and 5 
are printed, as also for the information he has kindly furnished me. 
_ f 16-17 Report of Peabody Museum of Archeology, p. 382. 
