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gl accurate group, will result in an unique and imperishable ex- hibit; impossible of duplication and of such compelling and incisive interest both scientific and popular, that it must per force head every catalogue of famous aerolites, and must be included in every reference to the chief treasures of great museums. Such group will be as interesting and instructive as Cleopatra's Needle; and more valuable because impossible of duplication. Additional points of interest are, the extremely high latitude in which these aerolites were found: the peculiar phy- sical conditions existing in the locality of their discovery, the bearing of these conditions upon the de tails of their ar- rival upon the earth; their wealth of suggestion of questions and speculations of the most attractive nature to the scientist, the virgin field they present as regards minute scientific study no exhaustive analyses etc.etc. yet having been made; and the fact that for seventy-six years they have baffled all efforts to locate their hiding place and have finally succumbed 1 to American persistence. This comb ination of charms renders these Cape York aerolites or "saviksue" peerless and unique among a ll the siderites of the world. Richard U.S. Nany

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