OUTH LODGE, KEITHICK, WHERE THE STRATHMORE METEORITE FELL THROUGH THE ROOF, DECEMBER 3, 1917 Photograph of the lodge and Mr. and Mrs. Hill taken by H. Coates ] The writer at one time had a paper weight to which she attached great value, despite the fact that it was an apparently insignificant metallic stone weighing a few ounces, but there was a fascination in the conjecture as to where it had come from. That was the query which could never be answered, for all that was actually known of the past history of this celestial visitor dated from one eventful evening when it was seen for a few brief seconds as a momentary streak of light, revealing the course of its descent, so that a fortunate mortal here below was enabled to locate it after its swift plunge to earth. After it had cooled sufficiently to bear handling, it was carefully examined and its substance was found to be thickly interspersed with carbon particles, revealing, like so many telltale imps, that this inert mass had once known better days when its life was filled with activity until it took the fatal plunge which ended so disastrously. “If you only knew what I have seen, and where I have been during my wanderings in space,” one could imagine the meteorite saying in reply to the numerous queries, regarding its origin, in the mind of the writer; until this fascinating little visitor in space vanished as mysteriously as it had come, through too great a confidence placed in an audience in the Far West, where the meteorite was passed round for inspection and never returned. However, the writer was enabled to resume her study of the subject on a larger scale while visiting the famous Foyer collection of meteorites at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, where the specimens are a little too hefty for transportation. No one, for instance, would be able to depart with the Ahnighito, the great Cape York meteorite, which was found on the north coast of Melville Bay near Cape York, Greenland, by Commander Robert E. Peary, in 1894, without attracting a considerable amount of attention. It is the largest and heaviest meteorite known, weighing over thirty-six tons. It possibly weighed more up to the date of its fall, as the guide Tallakoteah, who enabled Peary to discover the meteorite, informed him that up to the early part of the nineteenth century, members of the Eskimo tribe had found it very useful in providing them with material for knives and hatchets. [Illustration: STRATHMORE METEORITE, ESSENDY FRAGMENT Photograph taken December 3, 1917, by H. Coates ]