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THE SHELBURNE METEORITE. 
BY OLIVER CUMMINGS FARRINGTON. 
The Shelburne meteorite fell about three miles from Shelburne, 
Ontario, at 8 p. mM. August 13, 1904. Two stones were obtained 
from the fall, one of which weighed 12.6 kg. (2734 lbs.) and the other 
5.6kg. (12% lbs.). The latter of these stones came into the pos- 
session of his Museum,*where it is preserved under the Museum 
number, Me. 606. 
The general phenomena of the fall and the larger stone have 
been described by Borgstro6m** (Trans. Royal Astronomical Society 
of Canada, 1904, pp. 69-94). It remains to describe the smaller stonc 
and give some additional general observations regarding the fall. 
The distance between the points of fall of the two stones was about 
_ three-quarters of a mile and the direction between them a southeast- 
northwest one, the smaller stone being at the southeast. The latter 
| stone fell within eighteen inches of the rear porch of the resi- 
dence of Mr. John Shields. The phenomena of the fall, as stated 
by Mr. Shields to the writer, were that sounds like a muffled 
drum-beat were heard by various members of the family who were 
in the house at the time, followed by a dull thud at the rear of the 
house. A man at the barn, two or three rods west of the house, 
also saw a momentary light. Mr. Shields’ impression from the 
noise was that an old shed in the rear of the house, shown in Fig. 
1, had fallen. He accordingly investigated to see if this were true. 
The shed proved to be’ intact, but a hole newly made was noticed 
in the soil near it. It was also noticed that the side of the house 
- south of the hole was splashed with mud. No one investigated 
farther at the time, but on the morning of the second day (August 
15) Mr. Shields dug into the hole and at a depth of eighteen inches* 
-- found the stone here to be described. A portion of a burdock 
leaf, which had evidently been carried into the hole with it, lay 
under the stone. This showed no evidence of charring or burning. 
*(4m. or 16 inches avcoriing to Borgstrom, but judgment might well differ as to the exact 
depth.) 
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