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H. H. Nininger: Our stone-pelted planet, 237 pp., illus., 1933, 

 Cambridge. A nontechnical treatment of the general subject, with 

 illustrations and an important compilation of all then-known 

 meteorites. 



Fletcher G. Watson: Between the planets, 222 pp., illus., 1941, 

 the Harvard books on astronomy, Philadelphia. A useful recent 

 discussion of asteroids, comets, and meteors, with a nmnber of 

 chapters on meteorites. 



Descriptions and studies. — Descriptions and studies of particular 

 meteorites are mostly in the form of articles in scientific periodicals, 

 and in the publications of scientific bodies. A large proportion of 

 them have been reprinted separately, many of which are in the li- 

 braries of universities and museums in this country. Only a very 

 few embody the results of metallographic study. 



The following collected descriptions and studies are important: 



Aristides Brezina: Die Meteoritensammlung des k. k. natur- 

 historischen Hofmuseums am 1 Mai, 1895. Ann. naturh. Hof- 

 museums, vol. 10, pp. 17-370, illus., 1895; usually cited as Wiener 

 Sammlung. It contains, besides descriptions and illustrations, 

 much valuable comment. An earlier edition appeared in 1885. 



Aristides Brezina and Emil Wilhelm Cohen: Die Struktur 

 und Zusammensetzung der ^Meteoreisen erlautert durch photo- 

 graphische Abbildungen geatzter Schnittfiachen, 1886-1890 (no 

 pagination). A collection of photographs of many irons, natural 

 size or at low magnification, published between 1886 and 1890, 

 quarto plates of mounted photographs with descriptive matter. 



Emil Wilhelm Cohen: Aletooreisen Studien. A series of de- 

 tailed studies of many irons, chemical and physical researches, etc., 

 published in Annalen des k. k. naturhistorisches Hofmuseums, 

 Vienna, and separately reprinted in 14 parts from 1892 to 1905. 



Oliver Cummings Farrington: Catalogue of the meteorites of 

 North America, to January 1, 1909. Nat. Acad. Sci. Mem. 13, 

 513 pp., 1915. A very important reference work, summarizing with 

 copious references the descriptions from all sources of all meteorites 

 of the North American Continent. 



George PerkiNS Merrill: Handbook and descriptive catalogue 

 of the meteorite collections in the United States National Aluseum. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 94, 207 pp., 1916. Voluminous and profusely 

 illustrated, with descriptions, analyses, references, and other 

 information. 



Stanislas Meunier: Revision des fers meteoriques de la col- 

 lection du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Soc. Hist. Nat. 

 d'Autun Bull. 6, pp 217-297, 1893. Contains much useful descrip- 

 tive matter and other information. 



