[meteorite-list] The Ward-Coonley Catalogue of Meteorites - 1904

From: Barry Hughes <bhughes_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:01:08 -0400
Message-ID: <AANLkTikzFbU_s4yDGroVlFVsieKmdW27z_DiXgMk3OF6_at_mail.gmail.com>

Very nice..I found a fall in my home town. I put the coordinates in
google earth and I know right were that is...;) It was over a hundred
fifty years ago so I don't know what is to be had in wet dirt anymore.
 I bet they didn't have metal detectors back then...just looked
around.
Thanks,
Barry

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Sterling K. Webb
<sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Count, List,
>
> I didn't upload this to Archive.org. I just stumbled
> across it and, even before I snatched a copy for myself,
> realized that many Listees would like to know about it.
>
> The good thing is that this copy is a "true" formatted PDF
> from an OCR scan, not a collection of scanned jpegs. You
> can select a portion of the text or images and copy them
> out of the PDF and paste them elsewhere.
>
> If you use the "Search" function at Archive.org for
> "meteorites", you get 251 returned items, usually
> older (and out-of-copyright) meteorite literature.
> The scientific publications are usually very outdated,
> but there's a lot of historical accounts.
>
> For example, there's the Field Museum publications
> on individual falls, like BENLD, the first meteorite
> known to hit a car, with the full story as well as
> pictures of the car (and the garage in which it was
> parked at the time it was punctured).
>
> Take a look at the front end of Archive.org:
> http://www.archive.org/
>
> Over two million books, over a quarter million movies,
> over a half-million audio files, and archival copies of
> 150 billion vanished webpages.
>
> Let me think, how many hard drives is that?
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> To: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>; "Meteorite List"
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 3:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The Ward-Coonley Catalogue of Meteorites -
> 1904
>
>
>> Sterling K. Webb and List,
>>
>> My sincere thanks to Mr. Webb in appreciation for what I consider a rare
>> and priceless gift. Very, very good of you to make this historical material
>> available to everyone. ?I know that I speak for the List when I say that it
>> is thoughtfulness like this that makes it a joy to subscribe to these
>> postings.
>>
>> Best personal regards,
>>
>> Count Deiro
>> IMCA 3536
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>>
>>> From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
>>> Sent: Jun 22, 2010 12:35 AM
>>> To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>> Subject: [meteorite-list] The Ward-Coonley Catalogue of Meteorites - 1904
>>>
>>> Dear List,
>>>
>>> ? For those interested in historical meteorites and
>>> historical meteorite collections, the Third Catalogue
>>> of Henry A. Ward's Collection of Meteorites, is available
>>> as a scanned PDF file at the following location, free
>>> of charge, to download:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.archive.org/download/catalogueofwardc00warduoft/catalogueofwardc00warduoft.pdf
>>>
>>> ? Ward is a famous name in meteorites. The Catalogue
>>> contains lots of interesting tidbits, full histories of the falls,
>>> many photographic plates, essays, etc.
>>>
>>> ? Ward was the largest merchant of "natural history
>>> objects," including meteorites, in the world at that time,
>>> a true Meteorite Man.
>>>
>>> ? I quote from the Preface:
>>>
>>> ? "The writer of this notice, Mr. Henry A. Ward, had in the course
>>> of travel and business activity been largely interested in several
>>> branches of nature, among which were meteorites.He made two large
>>> collections of these objects, one of which about 170 falls formed
>>> the basis of the present meteorite collection of the Field Columbian
>>> Museum of Chicago. The other some 200 falls went to enrich the fine
>>> Clarence S. Bement cabinet of these objects.
>>> ? The present collection, which has outstripped them all, was
>>> commenced in 1894 with a basis of a few score of choice falls which
>>> had been retained from previous transactions. For six subsequent
>>> years, during which Mr. Ward collected actively by purchase and
>>> exchange at home and in extensive travel abroad, the collection
>>> was so increased that in 1900 its first catalogue was issued, with
>>> enumerations and a short description of each of its falls. A second
>>> list followed in the ensuing year. We now (May, 1904) follow with
>>> this third catalogue.of 603 falls, weight 2495 Kilogrammes,"
>>>
>>> ? Anybody here got a collection that weighs almost
>>> two-and-a-half metric tons?
>>>
>>>
>>> Sterling K. Webb
>>>
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