part 2

, p. 487.

[45] Proc. Royal Society, 1887, vol. 43, p. 117: 1888, vol. 44, Bakerian lecture.

[46] Die Meteorite (Chondrite) und ihre Organismen: von Dr. O. Hahn. Tübingen, 1880.

LIST OF THE METEORITES

REPRESENTED IN THE COLLECTION ON MAY 1, 1908.

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_The references in the second column correspond with numbers and letters on the cases, and indicate the pane behind which the meteorite will be found._

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Weights under one gram are not given. 1,000 grams are equivalent to 2·205 avdp. lbs.

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I. SIDERITES

or Meteoric Irons

(_consisting chiefly of nickeliferous iron, and enclosing schreibersite, troilite, graphite, &c._).

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A. FALL RECORDED.

[Arranged chronologically.]

+----+------+------------------------------+-------------------+---------+ |No. |Pane. | Name of Meteorite and | Date of Fall. | Weight | | | | Place of Fall. | |in grams.| +----+------+------------------------------+-------------------+---------+ | 1 | 1c |AGRAM (Hraschina), Croatia, |May 26, 1751. | 282 | | | |Austria. | | | | | | | | | | 2 | 1c |CHARLOTTE, Dickson County, |July 31, or} 1835. | 77 | | | |Tennessee, U.S.A. |Aug. 1, } | | | | | | | | | 3 |1c, 4l|BRAUNAU (Hauptmannsdorf), |July 14, 1847. | 554 | | | |Bohemia. | | | | | | | | | | 4 |1c, 4l|VICTORIA WEST, Cape Colony, | Fell in 1862. | 153 | | | |South Africa. | | | | | | | | | | 5 |1c, 4h|NEDAGOLLA, Mirangi, |Jan. 23, 1870. | 4,280 | | | |Vizagapatam, Madras, India. | | | | | | | | | | 6 | 1c |ROWTON, near Wellington, |April 20, 1876. | 3,109 | | | |Shropshire. | | | | | | | | | | 7 | 1c |MAZAPIL, Zacatecas, Mexico. |Nov. 27, 1885. | 14 | | | | | | | | 8 | 1c |CABIN CREEK, Johnson County, |March 27, 1886. | 5 | | | |Arkansas, U.S.A. | | | | | | | | | | 9 | 1c |N'GOUREYMA, Djenne, Massina, |June 15, 1900. | 871 | | | |North-West Africa. | | | +----+------+------------------------------+-------------------+---------+

B. FALL NOT RECORDED.

[Arranged topographically.]

+----+------+------------------------------+-------------------+---------+ |No. |Pane. | Name of Meteorite and | Report of Find. | Weight | | | | Place of Find. | |in grams.| +----+------+------------------------------+-------------------+---------+ | 10 | 1c |LA CAILLE, near Grasse, Alpes |Acad. Sci. | 374 | | | |Maritimes, France. |Bordeaux, 1829, | | | | | |p. 39. | | | | |For about two centuries it was| | | | | |in front of the church of La | | | | | |Caille and was used as a seat:| | | | | |its meteoric origin was | | | | | |recognised by Brard in 1828. | | | | | | | | | | 11 | 1c |SÃO JULIÃO DE MOREIRA, Ponte |Comm. da commiss. | 728 | | | |de Lima, Minho, Portugal. |d. trab. geol. de | | | | | |Portugal, 1888, | | | | |Known since 1883: described by|vol. 2, p. 14. | | | | |Ben-Saude in 1888. | | | | | | | | | | 12 | 1a |OBERNKIRCHEN, near Bückeburg, |Pogg. Ann. 1863, | 34,700 | | | |Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany. |vol. 120, p. 509. | | | | | | | | | | |Found in a quarry on the | | | | | |Bückeberg 15 feet below the | | | | | |surface, and thrown aside: | | | | | |recognised as meteoric by | | | | | |Wicke and Wöhler, in 1863. | | | | | | | | | | 13 | 1d |BITBURG, Rhenish Prussia. |Schweigg. Journ. | 1,349 | | | | |1825, vol. 43, | | | | |Dug up about 1807, taken to |p. 1. | | | | |Trèves and put into a furnace:| | | | | |afterwards thrown away with | | | | | |the waste: later, fragments of| | | | | |it having been recognised by | | | | | |Gibbs as meteoric, the mass | | | | | |was searched for by Nöggerath | | | | | |and re-discovered in 1824. | | | | | | | | | | 14 |1d, 4l|SEELÄSGEN, Brandenburg, |Pogg. Ann. 1848, | 9,846 | | | |Prussia. |vol. 73, p. 329; | | | | | |1849, vol. 74, | | | | |Found in draining a field: |p. 57. | | | | |several years afterwards, in | | | | | |1847, it was met with by | | | | | |Hartig and recognised as | | | | | |meteoric. | | | | | | | | | | 15 | 1d |SCHWETZ, Prussia. |Pogg. Ann. 1851, | 1,062 | | | | |vol. 83, p. 594. | | | | |Found in 1850 in making a | | | | | |road; it was about 4 feet | | | | | |below the surface: described | | | | | |by Rose in 1851. | | | | | | | | | | 16 | 1d |NENNTMANNSDORF, Pirna, |Sitzungs-Ber. d. n.| 15 | | | |Saxony. |G. Isis in Dresden,| | | | | |1873, p. 4. | | | | |Found in 1872 about 2 feet | | | | | |below the surface: reported by| | | | | |Geinitz in 1873. | | | | | | | | | | 17 | 1d |TABARZ, near Gotha, Germany. |Ann. Chem. Pharm. | 9 | | | | |1855, vol. 96, p. | | | | |Said to have been seen by a |286. | | | | |shepherd to fall on Oct. 18, | | | | | |1854: described in 1855 by | | | | | |Eberhard, to whom the rust | | | | | |seemed incompatible with a | | | | | |recent fall. | | | | | | | | | | 18 | 1d |ELBOGEN, Bohemia. |Gilb. Ann. 1812, | 94 | | | | |vol. 42, p. 197. | | | | |Preserved for centuries at the| | | | | |Rathhaus of Elbogen: its | | | | | |meteoric origin was recognised| | | | | |by Neumann in 1811. | | | | | | | | | | 19 | 1d |BOHUMILITZ, Prachin, Bohemia. |Verh. Ges. Mus. | 118 | | | | |Böhm. April 3, | | | | |Laid bare by heavy rain in |1830, p. 15. | | | | |1829. | | | | | | | | | | 20 | 1d |LÉNÁRTO, Sáros, Hungary. |Gilb. Ann. 1815, | 2,018 | | | | |vol. 49, p. 181. | | | | |Found in 1814: described by | | | | | |Tehel in 1815. | | | | | | | | | | 21 | 1d |ARVA (Szlanicza), Hungary. |Pogg. Ann. 1844, | 9,110 | | | | |vol. 61, p. 675. | | | | |Made known by Haidinger in | | | | | |1844. | | | | | | | | | | 22 | 1d |NAGY-VÁZSONY, Veszprim, |Ann. d. k. k. | 69 | | | |Hungary. |Naturh. Hofmus. | | | | | |Wien, 1896, vol. | | | | |Found in 1890: described by |10, pp. 284, 356. | | | | |Brezina in 1896. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 23 | 1d |TULA (Netschaëvo), Russia. |Wien. Akad. Ber., | 1,076 | | | | |1860 (1861), vol. | | | | |Found in 1846 in making a |42, p. 507. | | | | |road: it was 2 feet below the | | | | | |surface: recognised as | | | | | |meteoric by Auerbach in 1857. | | | | | | | | | | 24 | 1d |SAREPTA, Saratov, Russia. |Bull. Soc. Nat. | 283 | | | | |Moscow, 1854, p. | | | | |Found in 1854: reported by |504. | | | | |Auerbach in the same year. | | | | | | | | | | 25 | 1d |VERKHNE-DNIEPROVSK, | | 24 | | | |Ekaterinoslav, Russia. | | | | | | | | | | | |Found in 1876. | | | | | | | | | | 26 | 1d |AUGUSTINOVKA, Ekaterinoslav, |Comptes Rendus, | 950 | | | |Russia. |1893, vol. 116, p. | | | | | |1151. | | | | |Known before 1893; fragment | | | | | |described by Meunier in that | | | | | |year. | | | | | | | | | | 27 | 1d |BISCHTÜBE, Nikolaev, Turgai, |Bull. de la Soc. | 1,750 | | | |Russia. |Imp. des Natur. de | | | | | |Moscou, 1890, | | | | |Found in 1888: described by |vol. 4, p. 187. | | | | |Kislakovsky in 1890. | | | | | | | | | | 28 | 1d |PETROPAVLOVSK (gold |Erman's Archiv f. | 12 | | | |washings), Mrasa River, Tomsk,|wiss. Kunde von | | | | |Asiatic Russia. |Russland, 1841, | | | | | |vol. 1, p. 314. | | | | |Found about 32 feet from the | | | | | |surface: given to the Director| | | | | |of the Kolyvani Works in 1841 | | | | | |and described by Sokolovskji | | | | | |in the same year. | | | | | | | | | | 29 | 1d |TOUBIL RIVER (Taiga), |Verhandl. russ.- | 490 | | | |Petropavlovsk, Yeniseisk, |kais. min. Ges., | | | | |Asiatic Russia. |1898, ser. 2, vol. | | | | | |35, p. 233. | | | | |Found in 1891: described by | | | | | |Khlaponin in 1898. | | | | | | | | | | 30 | 1d |SSYROMOLOTOVO, Keshma, |Bull. Ac. Imp. des | 3 | | | |Yeniseisk, Asiatic Russia. |Sc. de St. | | | | | |Pétersb. 1874, | | | | |Known since the year 1873: |vol. 19, p. 544. | | | | |described by Göbel in 1874. | | | | | | | | | | 31 | 1e |VERKHNE-UDINSK (Niro |Pogg. Ann. 1865, | 2,904 | | | |River), Transbaikal, Asiatic |vol. 124, p. 599. | | | | |Russia. | | | | | | | | | | | |Found in 1854: noted by | | | | | |Buchner in 1865. | | | | | | | | | | 32 | 1e |NOCHTUISK, Jakutsk, | | 4 | | | |Asiatic Russia. | | | | | | | | | | | |Found in 1876. | | | | | | | | | | 33 | 1b |NEJED (Wanee Banee |Mineralog. | 58,160 | | | |Khaled), Central Arabia. |Magazine, 1887, | | | | | |vol. 7, p. 179. | | | | |Said to have been seen to | | | | | |fall in 1863; probably this | | | | | |is a mistake and the time of | | | | | |fall unknown: described by | | | | | |L. F. in 1887. | | | | | | | | | | 34 | 1e |KODAIKANAL, Palni |Proc. Asiatic Soc. | 2,355 | | | |Hills, Madura, Madras, India. |of Bengal, 1900, | | | | | |January, p. 2. | | | | |Known since 1898: reported by |Tschermak's Min. | | | | |Holland in 1900: described by |u. Petrog. Mitth. | | | | |Berwerth in 1906. |1906, vol. 25, | | | | | |p. 179. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 35 | 1e |TANOKAMI (-yama), |Jour. Geol. Soc. | 178 | | | |Kurifuto-g[=o]ri, [=O]mi, |T[=o]ky[=o], 1900, | | | | |Japan. |vol. 7, p. 85. | | | | | |Beiträge zur | | | | |Found about 1885: described |Mineralogie von | | | | |by [=O]tsuki in 1900, and |Japan. | | | | |Jimbo in 1906. |Herausgegeben von | | | | | |T. Wada, 1906, | | | | | |No. 2, p. 42. | | | | | | | | | 36 | 1e |UWET, Southern Nigeria, | | 6,948 | | | |Africa. | | | | | | | | | | 37 | 1e |BETHANY, Great |Jour. Roy. Geog. | | | | |Namaqualand, South Africa. |Soc. of London, | | | | | | | | | | |(a) Many large masses were |1838, vol. 8, p. | | | | |reported by Alexander in 1838 |24. | | | | |to be lying N.E. of Bethany | | | | | |and near the Great Fish River.| | | | | |{None of the fragments given | | | | | |to Alexander seem to have | | | | | |been placed in Museum | | | | | |Collections.} L. F. | | | | | | | | | | | |(b) Bethany (Lion River). |Amer. Jour. Sc. | 388 | | | |A large mass said to have |1853, ser. 2, vol. | | | | |been found near Lion River, |15, p. 1. | | | | |Great Namaqualand, was | | | | | |described by Shepard in 1853.| | | | | | | | | | | |(c) Bethany (Wild). A large |Annals of the South| 1,434 | | | |mass which had long been known|African Mus. 1900, | | | | |to the missionaries of Bethany|vol. 2,