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Description: | Mount Kemirs, between Krasnojarsk and Abekansk, Siberia, [USSR (Russia)] unknown From William Hunter's original bequest. Iron No. 1 in the Trustees catalogue of 1794-7 is described thus " No. 1 Iron in it's metallic form, intermixed with transparent yellow chrystals having the appearance of the Iron's having been rolled in them when soft. Part of a very large mass found in Siberia and probably the product of a Volcano". This is the mass discovered by Pallas, and this account predates the scientific realisation of meteorites. The specimen is also described in Laskey's 1813 account of the museum, by which time it was known to be a meteorite: "A small fragment of NATIVE IRON, this rare mineral has been hitherto found only in loose masses on the surface of the earth .... and has intermixed an asparagus green coloured mineral which is supposed to be ... olivine. .... it has been thought to have been the remains of decomposed meteoritic stones as, on their analysis, it has been found that Native Iron is one of their principal ingredients." | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | STARFALL : ELEMENT : MINERAL : METEORITE : ORIGINAL BEQUEST : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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