Guide leaflet (1901) (14579389999)

Willamette meteorite

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Title: Guide leaflet

Year: 1901 (1900s)

Authors: American Museum of Natural History

Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history

Publisher: New York : The Museum

Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library

Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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HOVEY, THE FOYER METEORITES 27 Besides these metals there are present small quantities of copper, sul-phur, phosphorus and carbon. The similarity in chemical compositionand the close proximity in which the masses lay when found indicatethe probability that they are parts of the same fall. WILLAMETTE Sideriie.) Gift of Mrs. William E. Dodge. This is the most interesting iron meteorite, as to external characteris-tics, which has ever been discovered, and it is the largest ever foundin the United States. Its chief dimensions are, length 10 ft., height

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SECTION OF WILLAMETTE. Portland, 6 ft. in., thickness, 4 ft. 3 in. On the railroad scales inOregon, the net weight was shown to he 31,107 lbs-. Willamette was discovered in the autumn of 1902 in the forest aboutnineteen miles south of Portland, by two prospectors who were searchingfor ledges likely to contain mineral wealth, particularly gold or silver. •_n AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS The finders at first supposed that they had come upon a ledge of solidiron, but the meteoritic character of the mass was soon ascertained.Later one of the prospectors removed the meteorite to his own ranchthree-quarters of a mile distant, but the owners of the land on which ithad been found instituted suit for its recovery, and the contest wascarried to tbe supreme court of the State before the finder relinquishedhis claim. The specimen was received at the Museum in April, 1900. The most striking characteristic of Willamette, next to its size, is theseries of hollows and deep pits which in

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