Hi Philip, Thanks very much for the reference. I do appreciate it.
-Walter ------------------------------------------ www.branchmeteorites.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip R. Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 12:13 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Have You Seen These? > At 06:58 PM 4/6/2004, you wrote: > > >At 06:15 PM 4/6/2004, Walter Branch wrote: > > > >>Does anyone know of a place where I might be able to purchase prints of > >>these two meteor-related images: > >> > >>http:/www.branchmeteorites.com/misc/leonid1833.jpg > >> > >>This is a woodcut of the meteor leonid shower of 1833 > > > >Actually this woodcut shows the 1799 shower and is loosely based upon > >observations by Andrew Ellicott Douglas from a ship off the Florida Keys. > >I think I have a reference at home which gives a source for the image. > > This image was published in _The Midnight Sky_ by Edwin Dunkin, published > in London in 1870. Dunkin was chief assistant to > Astronomer Royal George Airy. _The Midnight Sky_ was among the > popular works Dunkin wrote about astronomy. > > > -- Philip R. "Pib" Burns > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pibburns.com/ > > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
