# Public institutional updates · October 22, 2026

This is an attributed project summary authorized for the public site by docs/PUBLIC_SITE_BRIEF.md, not a transcription or publication of private correspondence. The underlying correspondence and supplied attachments are not public evidence links and are not distributed. Historical assertions have separate newspaper and journal citations on the story pages.

## Saco Museum
The Saco Museum confirmed accession records for two donations from Ira C. Doe, numbered 1873.111 and 1891.68, described in the records as meteorites. The stones have not been located or examined for this investigation. The relationship between the two donations is unknown. Neither is confirmed as a meteorite. The next step is locating the objects and obtaining specialist identification.

The 1873 newspaper independently documents the earlier gift: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014248/1873-11-20/ed-1/?sp=3 . The newspaper does not establish the modern museum update.

## Middleburg and the Sub-Tropical Exposition
University of Florida Special & Area Studies Collections supplied an exhibition-catalogue check: the Clay County section lists “Sample Iron Rock, from Middleburg”. The connection to the stone described in newspapers is a project inference, not a unique specimen identification. Supplied scans are not republished. The object's later whereabouts remain unknown.

The independently public scientific verdict is G. F. Kunz, Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences 7:135 (February 1888): https://archive.org/details/transactionsofne78788newy/page/135/mode/1up . Kunz identifies the supposed Middleburg meteorite at the exposition as limonite.