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On a Meteoric Iron seen to fall in the District of Nejed, Central Arabia, in the Year 1863

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

L. Fletcher*
Affiliation:
British Museum; University College, Oxford

Extract

In 1885 a trustworthy Persian agent, through whom various antique objects had been already acquired for the British Museum, offered for sale to its authorities a so-called thunderbolt, weighing 131 lbs. (59.4 kilograms), and submitted at the same time the following translation of a Persian letter from his Excellency Hajee Ahmed Khane Sarteep, Ex-Governor- General of Bunder Abbas, Persian Gulf, and Grand Vizier of Muscat:—

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1887

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References

page 182 note 1 Min. Mag. 1887, Vol. VII. p. 124.

page 182 note 2 Amer. Jour. Sc. 1869, Series 2, Vol. XLVII. p. 271.

page 182 note 3 Annal. der Chtm. und Pharm, 1856, Vol. XCVII p. 385.

page 182 note 4 Zeitsch. d. deuttch. geol. Gesell., 1864, Vol. XVI. p. 356.