II.—A Chapter in the History of Meteorites

Abstract

By the publication of Die Chemische Natur der Meteoriten, in 1870, Professor Rammelsberg accomplished the task which he had set himself, that of presenting to students of mineralogy a careful digest of the scattered contributions of the time to the literature of meteorites. Since that date no similar work of reference has been issued. Buchner's papers, intituled Die Meteoriten in Sammlungen, the first of which was issued at an earlier date than Rammelsberg's memoir, do not apparently continue to be published, the last one having appeared in Poggendorff's Annalen in 1869. It is from this period that I propose to take up the thread, and to give in the following pages a digest of all that has been published on the subject of meteorites since the beginning of that year.