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"Ring" on account of its peculiar shape, was found in the Santa Catarina 

 Mountains about thirty miles northwest of the city of Tucson, Arizona, 

 and its existence was known to the Spaniards for at least two hundred 

 vears before the region became part of the United States. Tradition, 

 indeed, relates that this and many other fragments fell in a single meteor- 

 itic shower about the middle of the seventeenth century. The attention 

 of Americans was first drawn to this and its mate, the Carleton meteorite, 



TUCSON, OR " SIGNET." 



Weight, 1400 pounds. A cast in iron. 



in 1851 by Professor John L. Leeonte, who described them as being in 

 use by the blacksmiths of the town as anvils. In 1S63 Signet was taken 

 to San Francisco and thence transported by way of the Isthmus of Pan- 

 ama to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. Carleton, weighing 

 632 pounds, had been removed to San Francisco the preceding year and 

 was afterwards deposited in the hall of the Pioneers' Society in that city. 

 Tucson is classed as a siderite, but its average composition shows the 



