Hi Martin and All, Thank for the info on the Bally-Prior Museum.
In my current Accretion Desk article in the MeteoriteTimes.com, I asked viewers to share any information about the source of a crusted specimen of the Mern meteorite that moved through the J.M. DuPont collection. There was a notation on the card with a BMS number and text indicating an exchange with Bally. I suspected that BMS was the British Museum, but instead as a thoughful reader pointed out, is actually Bally-Prior Museum in Switzerland. Here is the link to the article, and the specimen card in question is about half-way through the page. http://meteoritetimes.com/current_links/Accretion_Desk.htm Cheers, Martin On 11/18/05, Martin Altmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A little side note: > > von Däniken bought a large part of the meteorites of the Bally-Prior Museum > in Switzerland, > which closed down in 2003. They had a remarkable meteorite collection, > consisting of specimens from the colln of Bally-Prior (1847-1926), who > bought meteorites from the Ward-Coonley Colln, from Brezina. Later the cllm > of C.C.Lee was added. > All in all they had more than 400 meteorites from more than 300 localities. > Rolf Bühler was the curator. > Däniken bought them - I got to know, when I just tried to sell him a > DaG262-slice, but I was a little bit to late - to exhibit them at his > "Mystery Park" - a kind of Disney World for ufologists: > http://www.mysterypark.ch > > Was anybody of our Suisse friends already there to visit the poor > meteorites? > > Buckleboo? > Martin > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
