Paper, 'On a meteoric stone found at Makariwa [Makarewa], near Invercargill, New Zealand' by George Henry Frederick Ulrich

Description

Ulrich writes: 'The stone under notice was not seen to fall, but the following description regarding the site of its discovery, its mineral character, and structure can leave no doubt of its being of meteoric origin. Towards the end of the year 1886, when a large party of mining prospectors were preparing, with Government aid, for departure to the Big Bay district, west coast of Middle Island, Mr. Th. Fenton, a student of the Dunedin University School of Mines, was sent to Inver­cargill, where the party assembled, to instruct those of the men who desired it in rough assaying for gold and the use of the blowpipe.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes two pages of figures of the meteoric stone.

Subject: Geology / Mineralogy

Received 14 December 1892. Read 2 February 1893. Communicated by John Wesley Judd.

A version of this paper was published in volume 53 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On a meteoric stone found at Makariwa, near Invercargill, New Zealand'.

Reference number

PP/21/4

Earliest possible date

1892

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

21 pages

Format

Manuscript
Drawing