[meteorite-list] NPA 12-24-1897 Fletcher verifies Cape York Meteorite

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Jan 10 12:48:39 2005
Message-ID: <BAY4-F7E14F9F70AF22CFD2D160B3960_at_phx.gbl>

Paper: Hawaiian Gazette
City: Honolulu, Hawaii
Date: Friday, December 24, 1897
Page: 3

     LONDON, December 9. - Lieutenant Peary, the Arctic explorer, paid a
visit yesterday to the British museum, where he was met by Director Sir Wm.
Fowler, and Curator Fletcher of the mineralogical department. Mr. Fletcher
examined a specimen of the Cape York meteorite discovered and brought to New
York by Peary, and unhesitatingly declared that it was certainly of meteoric
origin. He added that no specimen in the British museum had meteoric
characteristics more sharply or more clearly shown than those of the Cape
York meteorite.

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