Meteorites: their Structure, Composition, and Terrestrial Relations

Abstract

THE treatise on meteorites written by the well-known curator of geology at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, will meet a difficulty that has long faced the student who, while desirous of studying this subject, has hitherto looked round in vain for a comprehensive textbook. Sir L. Fletcher's handbook and guide to the meteorite collection at South Kensington, which is now in its eleventh edition, is admirable so far as it goes; but its scope is naturally limited, since it is intended for the ordinary visitor to the museum. Meunier's “Météorites,” which formed part of an “Encyclopedic Chimique,” was published so far back as 1884, and is therefore out of date, and probably not now readily accessible. Cohen's “Meteoritenkunde” was excellently planned, but was unfortunately cut short at the end of the third of the five parts in which it was intended to be by the author's death in 1905; indeed, he did not live to see the third part appear.

Meteorites: their Structure, Composition, and Terrestrial Relations.

By Dr. O. C. Farrington. Pp. x + 233. (Chicago: Published by the Author, 1915.) Price 8s. 6d.