Martin, your answer to Chris is just perfect...
cheers Jean-Alix Barrat > Hi Chris, > > Some figures: > > The museum of the Indian Geological Survey opened in Calcutta in 1856, in > 1867 the meteorite collection there already had 247 specimens. > > London achieved that number of specimens (250) not before the 1880ies. > > Berlin, although they had acquired the collections of Chladni and Klapproth > had in 1864 181 meteorite specimens. > > The collection in Moscow owned in 1868 45 specimens. > > The Washington collection started in 1870. The meteorite specimens donated > of Smithson were lost in a fire before (has anyone numbers?) > > AMNH in New York received its first meteorite in 1872, > The first catalogue published in 1896 lists 55 meteorite specimens. > > The Field Museum in Chicago started in 1893 in buying Ward's exhibition from > the World's Columbian Exhibition - 170 specimens. > > > So I guess, with that tradition, we can fully trust the Indian scientists to > recognize a meteorite :-) > > Best! > Martin > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Chris > Peterson > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. August 2007 20:19 > An: Meteorite Mailing List > Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Family Claims Meteorite Fell In TheirCourtyard > inIndia > > I've pretty much come to the conclusion that when "India" and > "meteorite" appear in the same story, it's going to be rubbish. I wonder > if there's a single "scientist" in India who knows a thing about > meteoritics? > > Chris > > ***************************************** > Chris L Peterson > Cloudbait Observatory > http://www.cloudbait.com > > > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
