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concede to the i ara ai:is which has settled in our midst a local 
interest and importance which is not purely and simply one of 
scientific value ? 
A station which the town of Newcastle occupies as a main 
source of mineral wealth and a corner-stone of manufacturing 
prosperity in the country may well invite opinion to a wiser 
choice of allowing the rare memorial to remain finally in the 
centrejof mining activity and industry of this district, within 
easy reach of all who shared in wonder at the strange errand of 
its flight, and where the proofs and evidences of its astronomical 
origin are not likely to he soon obliterated and forgotten, or to 
he in any way idly disregarded. Such exhortations and reflec¬ 
tions will, I trust, not fail ultimately in leading the remaining 
vestiges of the stone, when the mineralogist’s regular 
mortem examination of it has been conducted, to he deposited 
for safe keeping and for public exhibition in one of the many 
noble institutions of practical and scientific learning in New¬ 
castle. So, at least, I venture fondly to forecast its final desti¬ 
nation. The meteorite may now he seen in the Library of the 
Literary and Philosophical Society, where the principal librarian 
of the society, Mr. Lyall, has for the present kindly undertaken 
the care and attention of its custody and exhibition. 
Yours, &c., 
A, S. HEPSCHEL. 
“FALL OF A METEOEITE. 
“ TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY CHRONICLE. 
“ Sir, —At about half-past three in the afternoon of the 
14th inst., I was angling in the Codheck, four miles east of 
Northallerton, and heard the loud rumbling sound mentioned in 
the Neiccastle Chron icle of to-day. I was puzzled to know whether 
it was thunder, an explosion, or a discharge of firearms. I 
was most inclined to think it was thunder, as had it been pro¬ 
duced near the earth an echo would have lollov/ed from the 
wood on the adjoining hill. On my return home, a neighbour 
in Northallerton, whilst working in his garden near the town, 
heard the sound at the same time, and inquired if I had heard 
