Chris and Listers,

LOL .... Yes another book please :) I am having a great time learning more 
about the Weston fall and the roles that Silliman played and I think the lack 
of roles Woodhouse played with the Weston meteorite fall. But again I am not 
saying Woodhouse is a lesser scientist, only sticking with the facts that be 
said......

"Edgar Fahs Smith, praises Woodhouse’s efforts in his field, although he 
concedes that Woodhouse’s methods were faulty. Among his contemporaries 
Woodhouse’s reputation as a chemist and mineralogist was not high…. In January, 
1808, with a manuscript account of the Weston meteorite, Silliman did not show 
it to Woodhouse, being convinced that Woodhouses’s analysis of the meteor, as 
yet unpublished was “altogether loose and not to be depended on….Woodhouse did 
not know how to analyze a stone, and that he had not a single sure test or 
agent of any kind to do it with”

Cited from Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1969

Source:

http://books.google.com/books?id=BUsLAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA285&dq=Philadelphia%20Medical%20Museum%2C%205%2C%202%20(1808)%20woodhouse&pg=PA285#v=onepage&q=Philadelphia%20Medical%20Museum,%205,%202%20(1808)%20woodhouse&f=false

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Chris Spratt cspratt at islandnet.com 
Tue Feb 22 19:43:02 EST 2011 

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If you gentlemen keep this up we can get another book. Interesting read. 

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