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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo07amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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HOVEY, THE FOYER METEORITES 31 "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 years 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,
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TUCSON, OR " SIGNET." Weight, 1400 pounds. A cast in iron. in 1851 by Professor John L. Leconte, who described them as being in use by the blacksmiths of the town as anvils. In 1863 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 032 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

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