Catalogue of the Ward-Coonley Collection of MeteoritesMarsh, Aitken & Curtis Company, printers, 1904 - 113 Seiten |
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... Museum of Chicago . The other some 200 falls went to enrich the fine Clarence S. Bement cabinet of these objects . The present collection , which has outstripped them all , was commenced in 1894 with a basis of a few score of choice ...
... Museum of Chicago . The other some 200 falls went to enrich the fine Clarence S. Bement cabinet of these objects . The present collection , which has outstripped them all , was commenced in 1894 with a basis of a few score of choice ...
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... museum , the writer would call attention to the easily confirmed and observable fact that those museums which have gone forward and have become great have pursued this course . Per contra , the museums of some important institutions ...
... museum , the writer would call attention to the easily confirmed and observable fact that those museums which have gone forward and have become great have pursued this course . Per contra , the museums of some important institutions ...
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... Museum are eminent instances of what may be done in this way . It is pleasant to the writer to recall how , in the building up of the Ward - Coonley collection , several hundred other meteorite collections , public and private , have ...
... Museum are eminent instances of what may be done in this way . It is pleasant to the writer to recall how , in the building up of the Ward - Coonley collection , several hundred other meteorite collections , public and private , have ...
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... Museum and the Ward - Coonley collection . The number of falls of the two latter are known - the British museum ( Cat . of March , 1904 ) 577 falls , and the Ward - Coonley 603 falls . Vienna announced 560 falls in its last Catalogue ...
... Museum and the Ward - Coonley collection . The number of falls of the two latter are known - the British museum ( Cat . of March , 1904 ) 577 falls , and the Ward - Coonley 603 falls . Vienna announced 560 falls in its last Catalogue ...
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... Museum of Uyeno , Tokio ; in Australia , from the Australian Museum of Sydney , Prof. Edward F. Pittman , the Director of the Geological Survey , Dr. E. H. Sterling of Adelaide , South Australia , and Bernhard H. Woodward of the Perth ...
... Museum of Uyeno , Tokio ; in Australia , from the Australian Museum of Sydney , Prof. Edward F. Pittman , the Director of the Geological Survey , Dr. E. H. Sterling of Adelaide , South Australia , and Bernhard H. Woodward of the Perth ...
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Aerolites Akad Australia Austria Bengal breaking with matrix breccialike brecciated brecciated Cgb Brezina Casey County catalogue Central Chief Piece Chili Chondrite Cw Comitat Comptes Rendus County Creek Daubrée Département Desert of Atacama District Durango Fell Found France geographical index Geol Gilb Government Grammes Gray Chondrite Group Hexahedrite index of locality India Iron Jour Kenton County Kentucky kilograms Krasnojarsk METEORITE Meteoriten Mexico miles east miles north miles south miles southwest miles west Mount Stirling Mountain Museum NAME natural size Fig Ness County North Carolina northwest Northwestern Provinces Noticed or Described Original weight Pallasite Proc Rancho Recorded River Rochester Acad Russia Saint Francois County Science Sept Shepard Siberia Siderite Siderolite South Wales Spain Spherulitic Spherulitic Chondrite Stone Tennessee Texas TOLUCA Total Weight U. S. A. Described veined Cwa Veramin vicinity Ward-Coonley collection Werchne Wiener Sammlung Сс
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Seite 93 - ... VI.) Sevrukof, Russia. Fell May n, 1874. 19 gr. 8 cm. Tschuwaschskaja, Russia. Found 1898. 15 gr. 7 cm. 27. Veined Black Chondrite, Csa. Dark or black mass, chondrules of various kinds, breaking with matrix; black or metallic veins. Farmington, Texas. Fell June 25, 1890. 68 gr. 14 cm. 'Two sections. 28. Ureilite, U. Black mass, chondritic or granular; Iron in veins or incoherent. Nowo Urej, Russia. Fell September 22, 1886. (14 gr., VI.) 29. Coaly Chondrite, K. Dull black, friable chondrite with...
Seite 105 - ... serve as a guide for collectors who intend to develop a synoptical collection out of the material of a systematic one. I. BETYL COINS. The ancients supposed the stars to be the domiciles of the gods; falling stars and falling meteorites signified the descending of a god or the sending of its image to earth. These envoys were received with divine honors, embalmed and draped and worshiped in temples built for them. From about 400 (or 500) BC to 300 AD coins were struck in honor of these divinities...
Seite 105 - ... ancients supposed the stars to be the domiciles of the gods; falling stars and falling meteorites signified the descending of a god or the sending of its image to earth. These envoys were received with divine honors, embalmed and draped and worshiped in temples built for them. From about 400 (or 500) BC to 300 AD coins were struck in honor of these divinities by emperors and autonomous cities. In general the images were rather naturalistic in older times and became human-like (iconic) afterward....
Seite 106 - A large stone, which on the lower side is round, and above runs gradually to a point. It has nearly the form of a cone, and is of a black color. People say of it in earnest that it fell from Heaven.
Seite 95 - Port Orford. 49. Pallasite. Rokicky Group (Pr). Polyhedric crystals of Olivine, partly broken, and fragments separated by Nickel-Iron. Admire, Brahin, Eagle Station.
Seite 94 - Sawtschenskoje. 38. Spherulitic Chondrite, crystalline, veined (Ccka). Slightly friable crystalline, veined mass with firm Chondri of radiate structure, some breaking with matrix.
Seite 94 - Spherulitic Chondrite, veined (Cca). Friable mass with firm Chondri of radiate structure, not breaking with matrix; black or metallic veins.