MEMOIRS 
OF 
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Meteorites com- 
prised IN THE Collection of the Geological 
Survey of India, Calcutta (on August ist, 1914). 
By J. Coggin Brown, M. Sc., F. G. S., Assistant 
Supmntendent, Geological Survey of India. 
INTRODUCTION. 
The meteorite collection of the Geological Survey of India, 
which is exhibited in the north-west corner room on the ground 
floor of the Indian Museum in Calcutta, between the gallery of 
vertebrate fossils and the rock and mineral gallery, is the largest in 
Asia, and by reason of the number, variety, beauty and rarity of 
its specimens, one of the most important in the world. 
It originated in the purchase by the Government of India in 
1865, of Professor Kobert Philip Greg's whole collection. In the 
year 1868, it was amalgamated with the specimens which up to that 
date were in the possession of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and 
since then has been augmented by Indian falls officially received 
and by donations and exchanges, until at the present time it con- 
tains 379 meteorites the weights of which are given later. 
The first catalogue of the collection was prepared by Thomas 
Oldham, first Director of the Geological Survey of India, and 
published in 1867. (Catalogue of the Meteorites in the Museum of 
the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta, 1867.) In 1879-80, the 
combined collection was rearranged and catalogiied by F. Fedden, 
Assistant Superintendent, Geological Survey of India. (Popular 
Guide to the Geological Collections in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 
