Some Recent Papers on Meteorites

Abstract

WE have before us a number of reprints of recent papers descriptive of various meteorites. Several of these are by the late Dr. Henry A. Ward and the late Prof. E. Cohen, two of the most indefatigable workers in this subject, whose loss is much to be deplored. In 1904, two years before his death, Dr. Ward published a “Catalogue of the Ward-Coonley Collection of Meteorites,” which is not only a catalogue, but contains, in addition, much useful information, including alphabetical and topographical lists of all known meteorites (about 680 in number). The Ward-Coolney collection, now exhibited in the American Museum of Natural History at New York, is one of the most complete that has ever been made, containing as it does representatives of 603 meteoritic falls; it is further remarkable in that it was brought together in the comparatively short space of time of ten years. Prof. Cohen died in 1905, and a third part of his “Meteoreisenkunde” was published after his death; this, which is the only general work that has yet been attempted on meteorites, unfortunately remains incomplete.