CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF METEORITES 



Since the publication of the last catalogue of the meteorite collection* 

 the collection has been more than doubled both in number of falls and 

 in weight. The last catalogue listed 251 falls and a weight of 2,289 

 kilograms; the present catalogue records 657 falls and a weight of 

 7,566 kilograms. This great increase has come chiefly through the 

 acquisition of the Ward-Coonley collection, a collection which numbered 

 620 falls and had a weight of 2,495 kilograms. The Ward-Coonley 

 collection included that of James R. Gregory of London, numbering 

 406 falls, and that of Count Julien de Siemaschko of St. Petersburg, 

 numbering 402 falls. The specimens listed as belonging to these 

 collectors in Wulfing's cataloguef are now therefore chiefly to be found 

 in the Field Museum. Among important specimens included in the 

 Gregory collection were an individual of Youndegin weighing 141 kilos 

 (310 lbs.) and of Nejed weighing 48 kilos (105 lbs.); also about one- 

 third the original mass of Pipe Creek. The Siemaschko collection was 

 notable especially for its fine series of Russian and Siberian meteorites, 

 among which were a large individual of Indarch weighing 18 kilos, a 

 large mass weighing 2.2 kilos of Mighei, about one-third the original 

 mass of Pavlodar (Jamyschewa) and a large mass of Tabory (Ochansk). 

 The specimens obtained by Professor Ward personally included masses 

 of Ilimaes, Lampa, Arispe, Yanhuitlan, Santa Rosa, Ballinoo, Bar- 

 ratta and Roebourne. Individuals or large masses of the Bath Furnace, 

 Billings, Bluff, Canyon City, Castine, Estacado, Illinois Gulch, Luis 

 Lopez, McKinney, Ness County, Oakley, Petersburg, Saint Genevieve 

 and Surprise Springs meteorites also proved important features of 

 Professor Ward's collection, and the amount of Canyon Diablo contained 

 in his collection was the largest in the possession of any collector. In 

 addition to the material obtained from the Ward-Coonley collection 

 the Museum has acquired subsequent to the publication of the last 

 catalogue, representatives of about 50 falls. These included the total 

 masses of Ahumada (52 kilos), Blanket (3 kilos), Leighton (850 grams), 

 Pickens County (380 grams), Rodeo (44 kilos), South Bend (2 kilos) 

 and the large masses of Quinn Canyon and Davis Mountains weighing 

 1,450 and 690 kilos respectively. 



*Pubs. Field Col. Mus. 1903, Geol. Ser. 2, 79-124. 

 fDie Meteoriten in Sammlungen. Tubingen, 1897. 



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