Editorial Comment, 389 
EDITORIAL COMMENT. 
A new Meteorite. Minnesota No. 1. 
Last April (9th), about four o'clock in the afternoon, a pe- 
culiar rumbling sound startled the people in the neighborhood 
of Fisher, in Polk county, in the Red river valley, in the 
northwestern part of Minnesota. In July, in making hay on 
a meadow in Sec. 23, Range 49, T. 150, a stone was found 
which had by falling entered the sod a few inches, the force 
of the impact having turned the turf back in all directions. 
There being no drift boulders on the surface in the region, 
this was at once connected with the rumbling noise. On ex- 
amination it proves to be a chondritic meteoric stone, quite 
similar to the well known Winnebago meteorite. Its weight 
is about 9^ pounds, and it is entirely covered with the usual 
black crust. This being the first known meteorite fallen in 
the state it is proposed to name it Minnesota J¥o. 1, with a 
view to continue the series by suitable numeration for all fu- 
ture Minnesota meteorites. A full description will be given 
in a later issue of the Geologist. n. h. w. 
Arctic and Antarctic Exploration. 
In a paper read before the Section of Geography in the 
British Association at the last August meeting,* Col. H. W. 
Fielden, who was the naturalist of the Nares Arctic Expedi- 
tion in 1875-'76, reviewed the reasons for hoping and expect- 
ing that Nansen and his party, after drifting in the ice-pack 
across the sea surrounding the north pole, will return to tell 
their experiences. Not only is Siberian drift-wood strown 
along the northwest coast of Greenland and the shores of 
Grinnell land, but also the currents have brought such drift- 
wood during a long time past, in which Grinnell land has been 
uplifted at least 1,000 feet. Up to that hight, Col. Fielden 
there found drift-wood embedded in recent alluvial or glacial 
clay and mud deposits, with marine shells of the species now 
living in the adjoining sea. The bivalve shells are often still 
held together by their hinges and retain their brown epider- 
mis; and the wood is combustible and so light as to float on 
water. All the wood appears to be of coniferous species, be- 
*Partly primed in the Bulletin of the American < Geographical Society, 
Now York, vol. xxvi, pp. 389-393, Sept. 30, 1894. 
