Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11592

    Sections of meteorite

    Date
    1892
    Creator
    George Henry Frederick Ulrich (1830 - 1900, German-born New Zealander) , Mineralogist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 128mm
    width (drawing): 205mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > mineral
    Description
    Microscope studies of a 2.3kg meteorite discovered at Makarewa, Invercargill, Southland, South Island, New Zealand. The meteorite was an ordinary L6 chondrite, discovered in 1879.

    Figures 4-6 from the manuscript version of the paper ‘On a meteoric stone found at Makariwa near Invercargill, New Zealand’….the chief line in the spectrum of the nebulae’, by J. Norman Lockyer, Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol.53 (1893), pp.54-64. The illustrations were used as single figures interspersed within the text in the published paper.

    The image is annotated below in ink: ‘magnified 25 diams.’, and with imprint details.

    Georg Heinrich Friedrich Ulrich (1830-1900) German-born New Zealand mineralogist was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
    Associated place
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