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II.—A Chapter in the History of Meteorites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Walter Flight
Walter Flight
Affiliation:
Of the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum; Assistant Examiner in Chemistry, University of London.
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By the publication of Die Chemische Natur der Meteoriten, in 1870, Professor Rammelsberg accomplished the task which he had set himself, that of presenting to students of mineralogy a careful digest of the scattered contributions of the time to the literature of meteorites. Since that date no similar work of reference has been issued. Buchner's papers, intituled Die Meteoriten in Sammlungen, the first of which was issued at an earlier date than Rammelsberg's memoir, do not apparently continue to be published, the last one having appeared in Poggendorff's Annalen in 1869. It is from this period that I propose to take up the thread, and to give in the following pages a digest of all that has been published on the subject of meteorites since the beginning of that year.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , January 1875 , pp. 16 - 30
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1875

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page 17 note 1 In his address “Ueber die Entwickelung der Geologie in den letzten 50 Jahren,” delivered before the German Naturalists' Association at Leipzig in 1872, Von Dechen alluded to shepardite (anderthalbfach kieselsaure Magnesia) as a characteristic meteoric mineral.

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page 29 note 1 The residue left on treating the Tuczon iron with acid appears to have borne a great resemblance to this substance. Compare with the description given in Buchner's Meteoriten, p. 183.

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