[meteorite-list] Apologies - 2nd article available for free - Cape of Good Hope, Bendego and Limerick

Mark Grossman markig at westnet.com
Tue Oct 26 09:53:59 EDT 2010


Hi,

My apologies for not mentioning in my last post that another article of mine 
is available for free from the Notes & Records of the Royal Society website.

This one deals about the relatively obscure British chemist Smithson Tennant 
and his involvement with the study of meteorites in the early 1800s.  It's a 
bit of a detective story which begins with a letter that I purchased at 
auction, which led to a Cape of Good Hope iron fashioned into a sword for an 
Emperor, and ended up at the Museum of Natural History in Paris.  There was 
this sample of Limerick in the meteorite collection, whose donor was 
unknown, and then...

But wait!  I guess you better read the story if you want to find out the 
ending!  :-)

All kidding aside, if you're interested in obtaining another article for 
free - I think it's kind of interesting - but then again all authors say the 
same thing about their work - click on the link below.

http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/61/3/265.full.pdf+html?sid=8e175cad-b06f-4782-9b27-56db8bff6f07

Thanks.

Mark

Mark Grossman
Briarcliff Manor, NY
USA





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