LIST OF BRITISH METEORITES.
Of the preceding meteorites the following have fallen within the British Isles:—
| Name | Date of Fall. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
1. In England— | Wold Cottage | December | 13, | 1795 |
Launton | February | 15, | 1830 | |
Aldsworth | August | 4, | 1835 | |
Rowton | April | 20, | 1876 | |
Middlesbrough | March | 14, | 1881 | |
2. In Scotland— | High Possil | April | 5, | 1804 |
Perth | May | 17, | 1830 | |
3. In Ireland— | Mooresfort | August, | 1810 | |
Adare | September | 10, | 1810 | |
Killeter | April | 29, | 1844 | |
Dundrum | August | 12, | 1865 | |
Crumlin | September | 13, | 1902 | |
One of them, Rowton, is a meteoric iron; the rest are meteoric stones.
APPENDIX A.
NATIVE IRON (of terrestrial origin).
(Pane 4m.)
| Name of Iron and Place of Find. | Report of Find. |
|---|---|
| Niakornak, Jakobshavn District, West Greenland. (Rink's iron). Part of a lump obtained (1848-50) by Dr. Rink from a Greenlander who lived at Niakornak: it had been found not far from his home, lying loose on a pebble-strewn plain near the coast. | Oversigt over det koniglike danske vidensk. selsk. forh. 1854, p. 1. |
| Jakobshavn, West Greenland (The Pfaff-Öberg iron). Part of a lump given by Dr. Pfaff of Jakobshavn to Dr. Öberg in 1870: it was said to have been found in the neighbourhood (perhaps near Niakornak). | Geological Magazine, 1872, vol. 9, p. 520. |
| Ovifak, Disko Island, West Greenland. Found by Baron N. A. E. Nordenskiöld in 1870. | Geological Magazine, 1872, vol. 9, p. 460. |
| New Zealand (Jackson's Bay). Found in 1885, and described by Skey in the same year (Awaruite). | Trans. and Proc. of New Zealand Institute, 1885, vol. 18, p. 401. |
| South America. Found in an old collection; described by Högbom in 1902. | Bull. of the Geol. Instit. of the Univ. of Upsala, 1902, vol. 5, p. 277. |