[meteorite-list] Winner - Meteorite Books and Quotes
From: Walter Branch <branchw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:01:31 2004 Message-ID: <001001c20cfc$e12b5300$90bc5341_at_cc516468a> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C20CDB.59B4FDC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Everyone, Well, it took almost all day yesterday but we do have a winner in the = "who said that" contest yesterday. The winner is (roaring drum roll)... Rick Kujawa who correctly reported that the quote was written by George = P. Merrill, Former Head Curator, Department of Geology, U.S. National = Museum. I took the passage from pages 51 and 52 of the book Minerals = from Earth and Sky, vol 3, The Smithsonian Series. BTW, this is a nice little book. It has some wonderful pictures of some = old falls and finds including a beautiful picture of Willamette. II'll = try to get some images soon. The second half of the book was written by = W.F. Foshag on the topic of Gems and Gem Minerals. Interestingly, my copy was published in 1944. Prior publication dates = include 1943, 1938, 1934, and 1929. I don't know if the passage = appeared in earlier editions but to me, the passage sounds very = contemporary, as if I could have been written this year! =20 Thanks again to everyone who participated.=20 Best wishes, -Walter ----------------------------------------------- Walter Branch, Ph.D. Branch Meteorites 322 Stephenson Ave., Suite B Savannah, GA 31405 USA www.branchmeteorites.com ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C20CDB.59B4FDC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hello Everyone,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Well, it took almost all day yesterday = but we do=20 have a winner in the "who said that" contest yesterday. The winner = is=20 (roaring drum roll)...</FONT></DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> <DIV><BR>Rick Kujawa who correctly reported that the quote was written = by George=20 P. Merrill, Former Head Curator, Department of Geology, U.S. National=20 Museum. I took the passage from pages 51 and 52 of the book = Minerals from=20 Earth and Sky, vol 3, The Smithsonian Series.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>BTW, this is a nice little book. It has some wonderful = pictures of=20 some old falls and finds including a beautiful picture of = Willamette. =20 II'll try to get some images soon. The second half of the book was = written=20 by W.F. Foshag on the topic of Gems and Gem Minerals.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Interestingly, my copy was published in = 1944. =20 Prior publication dates include 1943, 1938, 1934, and 1929. I = don't know=20 if the passage appeared in earlier editions but to me, the passage = sounds very=20 contemporary, as if I could have been written this year! = </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks again to everyone who = participated.=20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Best wishes,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Walter<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial=20 size=3D2><BR>-----------------------------------------------<BR>Walter = Branch,=20 Ph.D.<BR>Branch Meteorites<BR>322 Stephenson Ave., Suite B<BR>Savannah, = GA =20 31405 USA<BR><A=20 href=3D"http://www.branchmeteorites.com">www.branchmeteorites.com</A></FO= NT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C20CDB.59B4FDC0-- Received on Wed 05 Jun 2002 09:52:55 PM PDT |
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