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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

L. Fletcher*
Affiliation:
British Museum

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.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1904

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