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Note relative to the history of the mass of meteoric iron brought by Dr. F. P. Moreno from Caperr, Patagonia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

L. Fletcher
L. Fletcher*
Affiliation:
British Museum
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Extract

The mass of meteoric iron brought Dora Patagonia in 1896 by Dr. Francisco P. Moreno, Founder and Director of the State Museum of La Plata, had been sought for by him, while exploring that region, because of a reference which had been made to it in Captain G. C. Musters's book, ‘At Home with the Patagonians,’ published in 1871.

Dr. Moreno believed the mass to be really identical with a block of supposed marble, referred to on page 87 of that work as having been seen by Captain Musters in 1869 at Amakaken, which is situated in longitude 71° 56′ W. and latitude 48° 10′ S.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 14 , Issue 63 , October 1904 , pp. 41 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1904

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References

Note

1 Revista del Museo de La Plata, 1898, temo viii, p. 305: plate 34 of the same volume gives a figure of the mass. Mineralogical Magazine, 1899, vol. xii, p. 167.