[meteorite-list] Best institutional tektite collections?

From: nlehrman at nvbell.net <nlehrman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:34:54 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <113501.93692.qm_at_web81006.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Greetings to all,

As we speak, a final inspection is underway leading to the sale of the Futrell tektite collection to a new impact museum in Canada.? As soon as the deal is final, I'll circulate details.? This will surely be one of the top exhibits ever.? While probably not exceptional in any single category, the collection has excellent breadth as well as some famous individual specimens. There is a summary inventory on our website (TektiteSource.com)on the Futrell collection page.

It'll be great to finally have this collection out where we can see it all arrayed before us!

All the best from Tanzania,
Norm

--- On Sat, 4/18/09, Aubrey Whymark <tektites at googlemail.com> wrote:

> From: Aubrey Whymark <tektites at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Best institutional tektite collections?
> To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009, 8:46 PM
> Hi List
>
> I started some museum pages on my website a while back, it
> would be
> great to add to these museums if anyone has photos of
> tektite
> collections. www.tektites.co.uk/museums
>
> The British Museum of Natural History currently has a very
> poor
> display, bar a few nice Ivory Coast tektites. I believe
> this may
> improve in the future.
>
> The French Natural History Museum sadly has no tektites on
> display,
> despite the work by Lacroix.
>
> I believe the Czech Natural History Museum has a good
> display, but I
> have no more information.
>
> In Australia I guess there are a number of excellent
> displays -
> Certainly a good display is found in the Western Australian
> Museum.
>
> In the US I have little information - if you have some info
> and photos
> of tektite displays you can email me at aubrey at tektites.co.uk
> for
> inclusion in my webpage. I have learnt that Virgil Barnes
> donated his
> collection to the Texas Memorial Museum
>
> In the Philippines I believe there are no displays. There
> used to be
> one at the Planetarium, but that was under renovation, and
> I believe
> still is. No idea if tektites will be back on display there
> when it
> opens again.
>
> Regards, Aubrey
> www.tektites.co.uk
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Phil Morgan <roxfromspace at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > I was wondering where some of the better tektite
> collections are
> > located and how much is on display. ?I'm mostly
> interested in the US
> > but feel free to include others. ?Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Phil
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