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Historical note relative to the meteoritic fragments labelled ‘Cape of Good Hope’ and ‘Great Fish River’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
Extract
A small specimen (weighing 20 grams), with a label carrying the inscription ‘Meteoric Iron from the banks of the Great Fish River, South Africa,’ was included in a mineral collection presented to the British Museum in 1878 by Mr. Benjamin Bright, of Bristol; the collection had been begun by Mr. Richard Bright (1754-1840), and increased by his son, Mr. Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), father of the donor. No lists or letters were handed over with the collection, and the history of the specimen and its label, prior to 1878, was thus unknown : as no additions to the collection seem to have been made by Mr. Benjamin Bright himself, the Great Fish River specimen had probably been acquired not later than 1848, the year in which his father had died.
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- Research Article
- Information
- Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 14 , Issue 63 , October 1904 , pp. 37 - 40
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- Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1904
References
Page 37 note 1 Ser. 3, vol. xiv, p. 32.
Page 37 note 2 Journ. R. Geogr. Soc. London, 1888, vol. viii, p. 24.
Page 38 note 1 Barrow, J., ‘An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa in the years 1797 and 1798’, London, 1801, vol. i, p. 225 Google Scholar.
Page 38 note 2 Magazin für den neuesten Zustand der Naturkunde, von J. H. Voigt, 1805, vol. x, p. 12.
Page 38 note 3 ‘Die Meteoriten… zu Wien,’ 1843, p. 132.
Page 38 note 4 ‘An Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa (countries of the Great Namaquas, Boschmans, and Hill Damaras)’ : by Sir J. E. Alexander, London, 1838.
Page 39 note 1 Vol. ii, p. 137.
Page 39 note 2 Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine, 1806, vol. xxv, p. 182
Page 40 note 1 Compare Amer. Journ. Sci., 1853, ser. 2, vol. xv. p. 1.