[meteorite-list] Happy 100th to Willamette
From: Paul Dudley <pdudley_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:07:03 2004 Message-ID: <002101c278b3$58a850a0$6f8769d1_at_eznet.net> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C27891.9A1A4880 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A "... most interesting meteorite, noble in size and wonderful in = physical features, was found near the border of Clackamas County, = Oregon, in the autumn of 1902. " -- Henry A. Ward, 1904 On March 14, 1904, America's first great meteorite hunter presented a = paper to the Rochester (NY) Academy of Science, which was subsequently = published in its Proceedings. To commemorate the 100-year anniversary = of the Willamette meteorite find, I have scanned what I believe to be = the first scientific account and placed it on the RAS Website. [Note: All of the photo plates are included at the end of the document, = and will take awhile to load if you don't have a fast connection. The = hyperlinks to the plates will take you to the corresponding plate; the = links to figures will load cut-outs of just that figure. ] http://rasny.org/Publications/Willamette/Willamette.htm {Note: If you type the link above, it is case-sensitive and will not = work if you don't capitalize exactly as shown.) --Paul ------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C27891.9A1A4880 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 5.50.4913.1100" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV>A "... most interesting meteorite, noble in size and wonderful in = physical=20 features, was found near the border of Clackamas County, Oregon, in the = autumn=20 of 1902. " -- Henry A. Ward, 1904</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>On March 14, 1904, America's first great meteorite hunter presented = a paper=20 to the Rochester (NY) Academy of Science, which was subsequently = published in=20 its Proceedings. To commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the = Willamette=20 meteorite find, I have scanned what I believe to be the first scientific = account=20 and placed it on the RAS Website.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>[Note: All of the photo plates are included at the end of the = document, and will take awhile to load if you don't have a fast=20 connection. The hyperlinks to the plates will take you to the=20 corresponding plate; the links to figures will load cut-outs of just = that=20 figure. ]</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A=20 href=3D"http://rasny.org/Publications/Willamette/Willamette.htm">http://r= asny.org/Publications/Willamette/Willamette.htm</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>{Note: If you type the link above, it is case-sensitive and will = not work=20 if you don't capitalize exactly as shown.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>--Paul</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C27891.9A1A4880-- Received on Sun 20 Oct 2002 11:37:07 PM PDT |
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